World News, not all countries equal.

So who's getting all the attention from the world's leading media outlets ? What is really world news and what's not ?

A project run by 2 interns at the Online Journalism Blog have created these interactive maps below which allow us to see how each medium is covering the world. The maps below show how editor in chiefs saw the world in 2007. Countries swell or shrink according to the amount of media attention they receive.

Click on the media titles to see how each of them cover the news.

Some interesting findings;

• "Looking at the three British dailies, editors favour countries that are bigger and more populous, but also closer to home and better developed. They also give more room to the countries of origin of British immigrants, especially if they are white (look at the size of Australia and New-Zealand)."
• "Smaller issues are better covered by the blogosphere, which seems unbeatable at providing niche news."

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