Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman is Associate Professor of International Journalism and Head of the Department of Media and Communication at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College. His research interests include post-structuralism, ideology, critical linguistics, political economy of news, comparative journalism, tourism, and epistemological theory. He has published two books, Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth: Beyond Objectivity and Balance (2016) and The Political Economy of News in China: Manufacturing Harmony (2015).Tabe Bergman is Director of the MSc Media and Communication and the Deputy Head of the Department of Media and Communication at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, in Suzhou, China. His research focuses on global media and journalism. He has published over 15 refereed articles and book chapters, and is the author of The Dutch Media Monopoly (2014). Before entering academia, he was a freelance journalist, a web editor, and a global news editor with the Associated Press.

• Introduction: The Enduring Nexus between News Media and Foreign Policy – Tabe Bergman and Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman2 The Serbs in Western Political and Media Discourse: Othering, Demonisation and Tutelage – Philip Hammond 3 The More Things Change, the More the Frame Remains the Same: Comparing American and Russian Coverage of Dissident Alexei Navalny – Sarah Oates and Nataliya Rostova4 Mired in Tradition: How the US and UK News Media Frame Iran as an Official Enemy – Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman5 Still Misreporting Gaza: Violence and Context in the British Press Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2021 – Ruth Sanz Sabido6 ‘Chemical Weapon Attacks and an Evil Dictator’: Outsourcing Propaganda during the War in Syria – Piers Robinson7 American News on Haiti: The Enduring Imperial Mindset – Tabe Bergman8 Anti-Cuba Narratives in the US Media: The Struggle between Ownership and Independence – Keith Bolender9 Not So Golden Anymore: UK Press Coverage of the Changing UK-China Relations in the 21st Century – Qingning Wang10 The US Media on the Vietnam War and Beyond: In the Name of Objectivity – Dien Nguyen An Luong and Hong Tien Vu11 The Western Media on the War in Afghanistan: Still Mirroring Official Views – Tabe Bergman and Fangyuan Liu

Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman is Associate Professor of International Journalism and Head of the Department of Media and Communication at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College. His research interests include post-structuralism, ideology, critical linguistics, political economy of news, comparative journalism, tourism, and epistemological theory. He has published two books, Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth: Beyond Objectivity and Balance (2016) and The Political Economy of News in China: Manufacturing Harmony (2015).Tabe Bergman is Director of the MSc Media and Communication and the Deputy Head of the Department of Media and Communication at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, in Suzhou, China. His research focuses on global media and journalism. He has published over 15 refereed articles and book chapters, and is the author of The Dutch Media Monopoly (2014). Before entering academia, he was a freelance journalist, a web editor, and a global news editor with the Associated Press.

• Introduction: The Enduring Nexus between News Media and Foreign Policy – Tabe Bergman and Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman2 The Serbs in Western Political and Media Discourse: Othering, Demonisation and Tutelage – Philip Hammond 3 The More Things Change, the More the Frame Remains the Same: Comparing American and Russian Coverage of Dissident Alexei Navalny – Sarah Oates and Nataliya Rostova4 Mired in Tradition: How the US and UK News Media Frame Iran as an Official Enemy – Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman5 Still Misreporting Gaza: Violence and Context in the British Press Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2021 – Ruth Sanz Sabido6 ‘Chemical Weapon Attacks and an Evil Dictator’: Outsourcing Propaganda during the War in Syria – Piers Robinson7 American News on Haiti: The Enduring Imperial Mindset – Tabe Bergman8 Anti-Cuba Narratives in the US Media: The Struggle between Ownership and Independence – Keith Bolender9 Not So Golden Anymore: UK Press Coverage of the Changing UK-China Relations in the 21st Century – Qingning Wang10 The US Media on the Vietnam War and Beyond: In the Name of Objectivity – Dien Nguyen An Luong and Hong Tien Vu11 The Western Media on the War in Afghanistan: Still Mirroring Official Views – Tabe Bergman and Fangyuan Liu

Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman is Associate Professor of International Journalism and Head of the Department of Media and Communication at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College. His research interests include post-structuralism, ideology, critical linguistics, political economy of news, comparative journalism, tourism, and epistemological theory. He has published two books, Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth: Beyond Objectivity and Balance (2016) and The Political Economy of News in China: Manufacturing Harmony (2015).Tabe Bergman is Director of the MSc Media and Communication and the Deputy Head of the Department of Media and Communication at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, in Suzhou, China. His research focuses on global media and journalism. He has published over 15 refereed articles and book chapters, and is the author of The Dutch Media Monopoly (2014). Before entering academia, he was a freelance journalist, a web editor, and a global news editor with the Associated Press.

• Introduction: The Enduring Nexus between News Media and Foreign Policy – Tabe Bergman and Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman2 The Serbs in Western Political and Media Discourse: Othering, Demonisation and Tutelage – Philip Hammond 3 The More Things Change, the More the Frame Remains the Same: Comparing American and Russian Coverage of Dissident Alexei Navalny – Sarah Oates and Nataliya Rostova4 Mired in Tradition: How the US and UK News Media Frame Iran as an Official Enemy – Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman5 Still Misreporting Gaza: Violence and Context in the British Press Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2021 – Ruth Sanz Sabido6 ‘Chemical Weapon Attacks and an Evil Dictator’: Outsourcing Propaganda during the War in Syria – Piers Robinson7 American News on Haiti: The Enduring Imperial Mindset – Tabe Bergman8 Anti-Cuba Narratives in the US Media: The Struggle between Ownership and Independence – Keith Bolender9 Not So Golden Anymore: UK Press Coverage of the Changing UK-China Relations in the 21st Century – Qingning Wang10 The US Media on the Vietnam War and Beyond: In the Name of Objectivity – Dien Nguyen An Luong and Hong Tien Vu11 The Western Media on the War in Afghanistan: Still Mirroring Official Views – Tabe Bergman and Fangyuan Liu