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It compares sourcing patterns across commercial and public networks, including ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. Using a critical media effects approach and content analysis of 200+ stories and 600+ sources from 2019–2020, results show markedly more Western-country sources than non-Western ones, with variations by reporter, story type, and network.","Whose Voices Count?: Sourcing U.S. American Television News  \nabout the World  \nDAVID C. OH  \nRamapo College of New Jersey, USA  \nOMOTAYO O. BANJO  \nNANCY A. JENNINGS  \nUniversity of Cincinnati, USA  \nThe current study examines the extent to which U.S. coverage of world news events relies on White and Western sources as well as the role that journalists’ race, story type, and interview type have in the selection of news sources . Furthermore, this study examines whether such sourcing biases exist across commercial and public networks, namely ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. Relying on a critical media effects approach, we drew connections between indexing theory and critical race and postcolonial studies to conduct a content analysis of more than 200 news stories and more than 600 sources in 2019 and 2020.  \nThe findings reveal significantly more sources from Western countries than non-Western countries in the coverage of international news stories with some variance with reporters, story type, and network type . Implications of the disproportionate presence of Western sources are further discussed.  \nKeywords: sources, broadcast news, race, indexing, international news  \nThere is an abundance of research that argues that international news coverage is ethnocentric (Yang, 2008) and consistent with national interests (Lee & Wang, 2016; Seo, 2009) . Although this may be generally true as a “universal” rule of thumb, the impacts are uneven and favor the nations with the most powerful global institutions and media systems . This would be especially true, then, for the United States, which has a disproportionate ability to shape public understanding not only within its national boundaries but around the world (Choi, 2009). For this reason, it is particularly important to understand [how U.S. news](how U.S. news)[ ](how U.S. news)[represents the world. Our focus is on whether U.S. newsrooms rely primarily on U.S./Western sources or](represents the world. Our focus is on whether U.S. newsrooms rely primarily on U.S./Western sources or)  \nDavid C. Oh: [doh@ramapo.edu](doh@ramapo.edu)  \nOmotayo O. Banjo: [banjooo@ucmail. uc.edu](banjooo@ucmail. uc.edu)  \nNancy A. Jennings: [jenninna@ucmail. uc.edu](jenninna@ucmail. uc.edu)  \n[Date submitted: 2021-10-19](Date submitted: 2021-10-19)  \nCopyright © 2022 ( David C. Oh, Omotayo O. Banjo, and Nancy A. Jennings) . Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at [http://ijoc.org](http://ijoc.org).  \nInternational Journal of Communication 16(2022) Whose Voices Count? 4211  \nwhether they provide space for local sources to speak for themselves . To do this, we have studied the networks’coverage of international news that is posted to their websites .1  \nWe understand that newsrooms shape news in three layered processes . At the first level, newsrooms select which stories to cover (i.e ., agenda setting; see McCombs, 1997) . Then, reporters and editors decide how to “frame” the story. To set the frame, they need sources to provide the substance of the story (see Liebler, 1993) . Because of the practice of objectivity in U.S. newsrooms, the journalists’selection and inclusion is critically important to the meaning of the story (Gans, 1979) . Further,“international events are framed by national television news media according to dominant political, economic, and cultural discourses about the rest of the world”(Riegert, 2011, p. 1568) . Television not only legitimizes particular points of view, but because of the medium’s visual nature, it legitimizes whose voicesand images count. Thus, the purpose is to analyze the extent to which [U.S. news](U.S. news) coverage of international stories includes local sources and their perspectives about issues that directly affect their nations . How does a racial/national difference matter in broadcast television news’s inclusion of sources in international stories? 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