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Reports Analysis of the Associated Press in the Beijing Winter Olympics

Bowen Liu, Yu Liu

Abstract


The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, was an international winter multi-sport event held between 4 and 20 February 2022 in Beijing, China, and surrounding areas with competitions in selected events(Britannica, 2023). The competition for the 2022 Winter Olympics was followed with interest by many well-known media including the Associated Press ("AP" hereafter) and Xinhua Press. In order to figure out connections between news coverage and international relations, this paper will analyse the reports from AP on the Beijing Winter Olympics, and discuss in three aspects,which are narrative mode, text and pictures.

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The Associated Press; Beijing Winter Olympics

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i12.8345

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