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The article focuses on the issues on the restrained revolution of the newspaper industry in Asia. Press Foundation of Asia director Amitabha Chowdhury says that Asian newspaper is unable to maximize its revolution as it lack some powerful catalysts including lower newspaper price, market identification, and media design. It states that despite having press freedom, some constitutions in Asia are being suspended for emergency conditions; thus, shows press freedom to be on the hands of the government. It adds that the industry also faces economic problems such as finance for newsprint, modern equipment, and their own plants and the purchasing power of customers. It explores the conditions of newspaper industries in various Asian countries including Burma, Ceylon, and Philippines.

The article discusses the context of foreign news in the U.S. and in Asian countries. It says that there are many complaints in the influences of the media in the third world countries, in which cultural imperialism and one-way traffic are attached to the flow of information. It mentions that foreign media content's usage is expected to a cause an extinction of cultural traditions. It states that the U.S. succeeded in obtaining the position as the birthplace of the mass communications research. It adds that the amount of Asian newspapers' foreign coverage is based partly on the ties between the individual nation and the superpowers.

The article focuses on the changes of press freedom in Asia and its revolution. It says that 'completed revolution' has affected the press freedom in Asia and changes in the press came about at the time when Asian governments have succeeded in changing Western-transplanted notions of democratic governance. It mentions that the inter-related concepts that have discovered in most of Asia are 'developmental journalism,' 'guided press,' and 'development support communication.' Moreover, the development journalism originally showing the use of trained and informed specialist reporters and has degenerated in most of Asia.

Over 4000 media workers in South Korea have lost their jobs since the advent of the Asian financial crisis in late 1997. A number of newspapers and television stations have experienced unprecedented downsizing and restructuration. As a matter of fact, the whole media industry has gone through a process of profound transformation. This article attempts to document the difficulties of the Korean media and newsworkers as they experience the unexpected economic crisis. It presents observations about some notable changes in the practice of news making, describing, for example, whether newsroom organizations have changed and if journalistic independence has been weakened. The article also discusses some fundamental implications of these changes for Korean journalism and its future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on a study which explored the gender-role messages in children's cartoon television programs from Japan that have reached Asian television (TV) audiences. Export of Japanese popular culture, comic books and TV animation; Related studies; Method; Results and discussion; Conclusions.

Develops a typology of policies concerning consumer access to the transnational satellite television medium adopted by the Northeast Asian governments. Transnational satellite television providers that entered the Asian market; Classification of policies and regulations; Policies under study towards the medium.

Examines the trend of commercialization in the broadcast media in Asia's four industrialized countries (NIC), Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, China. Discussion on globalization; Factors for media commercialization; Impact and consequences of media commercialization; Conclusion.

Discusses information on media in Asia. Components of Asia; Information on Asian values; Correlation between urbanization and literacy for all three regions of Asia; Structure of the global telecommunication network.

Analyzes how the media from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong constructed their respective narratives about the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. Relevance of the story to their home constituencies, conventions of newsmaking and cultural repertoire; Role of a domesticated global media on the creation of a society as a discursive community.

This study portrays the rapid changing Asian television scene, in broad social processes, of which some are global, some are uniquely Asian. These interlocking trends and processes include the policy oscillation between state control and liberalisation, the contradictions between media internationalisation, regionalisation and indigenisation, and the discursive struggle between Western and Asian television culture. This mid-rang and context-sensitive analysis is an attempt to supplement the catch-all generalisation of academic discourses such as globalism and media imperialism, which we think are incapable of describing the non-linear and asymmetrical nature of media exchanges between Asia and the West. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study looked at 3,016 models in 1,972 ads from 12 women's, men's and general-interest magazines. A majority of models in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean ads were female. Most women and men were NOT shown in occupational roles; of those that were, men prevailed over women in the 'high-level business' and 'professional' categories by about 2 to 1. The products most strongly associated with women were cosmetics (Japan) and clothes (Korea and Hong Kong). Men were most strongly associated with clothes (Hong Kong and Korea) and entertainment/ information (Japan). Although Asian culture accords respect to the elderly, almost no Asian women over 50 appeared in the ads studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asian development journalism, centered since 1967 in the Press Foundation of Asia, begins a second quarter-century with a network of over 2,500 journalists trained by the Manila-based foundation, and a regionwide development news service, Depthnews. A content analysis of Depthnews shows the original ideas of development news survive: the service has a high proportion of stories dealing with rural development, health, population, science and news of women; it also seeks non-institutional sources and subjects. By avoiding direct government ties, PFA has maintained regional press credibility, but remains a supplemental service unable to sell itself outside Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a survey which investigates the training efforts and activities of mass media to meet the demand of technology innovations in Asia and the Pacific Region. It explores several types of trainings which can be applied by broadcasting industry such as preservice training which is provided to new employees, on-the-job-apprenticeship, and inservice training which was designed for staff training for performance improvement. Moreover, it says that being systematic and the application of existing instructional technology must be considered by the industry to achieve the effectively and efficiently of the said trainings.

The article discusses the portrayal and role of women in Asian literature and mass media as of 1985. It states that in 1891-1918, Asian countries, including Philippines, China, and Indonesia, had periodicals created for women. It highlights the "Satri Sarn" magazine for Thai women that was established by Khun Nilawan Pintong in 1945. It mentions several women who worked in the mass media industry, including Nable de Avellano, Hani Motoko, and Rosa Sevilla de Alvero. It suggests conducting a comparative analysis of female media employees in Asia.

The article presents a study on the content analysis of Asian news coverage in the U.S. It mentions that foreign news particularly Asian are not given enough attention by daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. because they have a much diverse media capable of better presentations of international information. It states that four broadcasting sources are used in the study in which Asian news were printed and broadcasted including "New York Time," "Washington Post" and ABC News. The study found that the news items in the four media will more likely not provide readers or viewers enough perspective about Asian news.