Much has been written about transnational public spheres, though our understanding of their shape and nature remains limited. Drawing on three alternative conceptions of newswork as public communication, this article explores the role of international journalists in shaping transnational publics. Based on a series of original interviews, it asks how journalists are oriented in their newswork (e.g. are they cosmopolitan or parochial in their orientation) and how they ‘imagine’ the public. It finds that interviewees imagine a polycentric transnational public and variously frame their work as giving voice to those affected by an issue (imagining the public as a cosmopolitan community of fate), performing and reaffirming a particular kind of identity and belonging (imagining the public as a nation) or pursuing audiences wherever they may be (imagining the public as the de facto audience).

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国际新闻与跨国公众的出现：在世界主义规范、身份认同和市场力量之间

已经有很多关于跨国公共领域的文章，尽管我们对它们的形状和性质的理解仍然有限。本文利用新闻工作作为公共传播的三种替代概念，探讨了国际记者在塑造跨国公众方面的作用。基于一系列原始采访，它询问记者如何在他们的新闻工作中定位（例如，他们的定位是世界性的还是狭隘的）以及他们如何“想象”公众。它发现受访者想象一个多中心的跨国公众，并以不同的方式将他们的工作定义为为受问题影响的人发声（将公众想象成一个命运共同体），