A survey of "Journalism Quarterly,""Gazette,""Public Opinion Quarterly,""Journal of Broadcasting," and "Journal of Communication" reveals that the early research on international news flow or coverage emphasized two aspects of news: (1) how the United States was portrayed in the media of other nations, and (2) what the effect of American society was on the foreign news it received. In the early 1950s, the research trend began to shift to a more specific, quantitative, and empirical direction. Both government and private sources provided large grants for projects conducted in a number of important institutions. The most essential work of this trend was a series of reports issued from 1952 to 1956 by the International Press Institute. A review of the studies published since 1970 reveals at least four frameworks that have been used to analyze international news: content analysis of international news, the theoretical proposition in the news, the imbalance in news flow, and factors influencing the process of news flow. Problems inherent in the current research trend involve the limitation of methodological techniques, generalizable knowledge, discovery of subject categories, and research propositions. (HOD)