Reporting Cultures on 60 Minutes

<p>This work delves into the act of reporting on different cultures as a means of exploring our own. The way culture is presented to the media highlights various international and intercultural dynamics as well as the complexity involved in reporting from a cultural standpoint.</p><p>Reporting Cultures in 60 Minutes is a study covering the journalistic practice of reporting culture by examining Tango Finlandia a broadcast report on Finnish culture produced by the American television news magazine <i>60 Minutes</i>. It covers the journalistic practice of reporting culture broadly by looking specifically at Finns and Americans reporting about their respective homelands and about the other's culture and social interactions.</p><p>Unique in its content and approach this volume: </p><ul> <ul> <p> </p> <li>Demonstrates how reports are constructed as deeply cultural forms couched in points of view derived from one's discursive habits and their meanings. </li> <p> </p> <li>Analyzes reporting done in professional practice/journalism as well as in common social routine.</li> <p> </p> <li>Offers a way through the process that can move reporting on culture from a self-reflective mirror to opening a window onto another cultural world.</li> </ul> </ul><p>Scholars and students in communication intercultural/international studies and related areas will find much to consider in this work</p>