Border Lines between Media and Cross-Cultural Communication, the Journalist as a Global Communicator

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the boundaries between Media Studies on the one hand and Translation Studies on the other hand. It highlights the contact areas between these two disciplines and sheds light on the findings and insights of both fields, thus informing researchers in their quest to develop journalism teaching curricula and training courses. A foreign desk editor (FDE) needs to cross borders forward and backward between cultures depending on translation from one culture to another. However, a journalist usually faces many linguistic and cultural problems to achieve this task. Thus, the paper can be viewed as an attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice in teaching journalists international communication and domesticating world news stories for a local audience.