Scholars have taken various approaches to explain mechanisms that shape the phenomenon of international news, and criticized that only some negative events about the Third World were selected while others greatly ignored. Based on the plethora of theories and research studies on international news flow presented in the past decades, this study analyzes foreign news coverage portrayed in Taiwanese newspapers from 1988 to 1999 in four major Taiwanese newspapers in terms of categories such as reported area, reported country, size, valence, and sources. The results show that these selected Taiwanese newspapers have been consistently biased to favor events emerged in the First World countries, and not surprisingly the United States continues to be the most covered nation in all these four newspapers. Eliteness, geographical distance, and negativity of news events are concluded to be the three major factors determining foreign news reporting in Taiwanese newspapers.
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