Derived from the best-selling Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Second Edition, this book contains the chapters that deal with the exciting field of international and development communication, illustrating structurally how this field of study is composed and how it has grown.

This volume addresses telecommunications policy in developing countries, ranging from low-income countries with overburdened, rural roads in south Asia and Africa, to digitalized fibre-optic super highways in middle-income countries such as Singapore.

Foreign News Matters shows that news organizations construct foreign events uniquely and strategically as opposed to objectively and neutrally based on national historical solidarity with global North or South power blocs, current national interest, ownership of the news organization, and the political-linguistic constituency of the intended audience. While there has been research on the role of national interest and news organization ownership, the influence of the intended audience (namely, foreign or national) in the design of news is a new contribution to the literature.