Apart from tens of thousands of BBC international TV or radio news stories across 35 years (staff and freelance, and including some reports in German), hundreds of reporter pieces and some BBC News Online material (mostly in English, also adapted for the Indonesian and Vietnamese services) that is probably still kicking around the internet, I spent a decade in academia and published these:
BOOK:
- Marsh, V. (2023). Seeking truth in international TV news: China, CGTN and the BBC. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/978100309543
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES:
- Marsh, V., Madrid-Morales, D. & Paterson, C. (2023). Global Chinese media and a decade of change. International Communication Gazette 85(1), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485221139459
- Marsh, V. (2021). ‘Cross-editing’: comparing news output through journalists’ re-working of their rivals’ scripts. Journalism Studies 22(6), 741-759. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1862697 – more on this here
- Marsh, V. (2018). Re-evaluating China’s global media expansion. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 13(1), 143-146. https://doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.295
- Marsh, V. (2016). Mixed messages, partial pictures? – discourses under construction in CCTV’s Africa Live, compared with the BBC. Chinese Journal of Communication 9(1), 56-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2015.1105269
- Marsh, V. (2014). Media and Elections in Africa: conference summary. Journal of African Media Studies, 6(2), 231-234. https://doi.org/10.1386/jams.6.2.231_7
CHAPTERS IN ACADEMIC BOOKS:
- Marsh, V. (2025). The unresolvable imbalances of China’s English-language media: the case of CGTN. In Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media: second edition (eds. M. Rawnsley, Y. Ma & G. Rawnsley). London: Routledge, 431-444. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362500-33
- Marsh, V. (2018). Tian gao or tianxia? The ambiguities of CCTV’s English-language news for Africa. In China’s Media Go Global (eds. D. Thussu, H. de Burgh & A. Shi). London: Routledge, 103-121. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315619668-7
- Marsh, V. (2016). Africa through Chinese eyes: new frames or the same old lens? In Africa’s media image in the 21st century: From the ‘Heart of Darkness’ to ‘Africa Rising’ (eds. M. Bunce, S. Franks & C. Paterson). London: Routledge, 177-189.
ACADEMIC BLOGPOST:
- (2023) How China’s English-language news has changed. Institute of Commonwealth Studies blog, 12 May. Available at https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/blogs/how-chinas-english-language-news-has-changed