This article extends Julie Thompson Klein's ideas on boundary work and typologies of interdisciplinarity from the context of academia to the context of international news media. It draws a metaphorical connection between news frames and the perspectives of academic disciplines, perceiving both as providing selective, limited views on the world. Building on Klein's observation that boundaries of disciplines both enclose and are permeable, I explore how and to what extent boundaries between frames and boundaries between academic and societal fields sponsoring these frames are permeated in the news, forming wider frameworks of interpretation. Empirically, I draw upon a comparative study of international news articles produced and published in the U.S. and Finland, concerning complex developments in South Africa and Brazil. Challenging hegemony of the Global North, these nations of the Global South have aimed to increase their voice in the international public sphere, an effect apparent in the articles in the study. In an effort to demonstrate how Klein's work can contribute to the field of political communication, I associate Klein's ideas about interdisciplinarities, geopolitics, and location of knowledge with Daniel Hallin and Paolo Mancini's (2004) typology of media systems and different forms of pluralisms shaping journalistic coverage in the U.S. and Finland. The ultimate goal of this article is to show how Klein's work can pave the way for a more comprehensive analysis of democratic knowledge production, encompassing both news media and academia, in different parts of the world.