The Future of Foriegn News in America

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 01.29.02 | 1:14 AM ET

Foreign news coverage has long been on the decline in the United States. Has the paucity of international reporting fed American isolationism? Have the September 11 attacks prompted improved international coverage on network TV and in newspapers? If so, will it last? Former Los Angeles Times Editor Michael Parks examines these issues in the latest edition of the Columbia Journalism Review. “American newspapers have carried more stories about Afghanistan on page one in the four months since the September 11 attacks than in the previous four decades,” he writes.