At a time in the Cold War when member nations of UNESCO were arguing over a New World Information and Communications Order, Don Flournoy undertook the initial studies that became a longitudinal research project focusing on the content, infrastructure and major players in UNESCO-sponsored regional satellite news exchanges in Europe (Eurovision), Asia (Asiavision), the Caribbean (Caribvision) and the former Soviet Union (OIRT). The first publication in this series was produced in 1984. Later, news flow research became a major activity of the ITS. For example:

• In 1987, Robert K. Stewart, Scripps School of Journalism, and Don Flournoy started building at Ohio University a video archive and program of scientific research and analysis on CNN World Report, the world's first international newscast and global news exchange. This work was funded by grants from the Ohio University Research Committee, the Bush Research Center and CNN. Over 20 years, the NWICO and the CNN Archive research produced more than a dozen papers and presentations, eight published articles, three chapters and two books.

• A chapter entitled “Competition, Coverage and Credibility: The CNN International News Standard," in GLOBAL NEWS: PERSPECTIVES ON THE INFORMATION AGE, Tony Silvia, ed., was published by Iowa State University Press, 2001. This piece of research and analysis, that captured the Chapter No.1 position in the Silvia book, was originally written for the 20th anniversary of CNN. CNN management used the piece for orientation and training of new domestic and international personnel.

• A 1997 book by Don Flournoy and Robert K. Stewart (CNN: MAKING NEWS IN THE GLOBAL MARKET, London: John Libbey & Co., Ltd.) included a foreword written by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. A Web site <http://its.ohiou.edu/cnnbook> that accompanied the book hosted pictures of Carter, Ted Turner, Jerry Levin, Peter Arnett, Christiane Amanpour and others. This was the first book in print focusing on CNN International. The book has gone through several reprints and there is now a Japanese edition published by NTT-Japan.

• “The Business of International News: Putting a Brand Name on Information,” was a public address given by ITS director Don Flournoy as Visiting Scholar, University of Rhode Island, February 1998. Christiane Amanpour (CNN), Corry Flintoff (NPR) and Larry Grossman (NBC/PBS) were among the other notables in this lecture series.
• “CNN World Report: A Five Year Analysis,” (with graduate students Ece Algan and Sang-Chul Lee), an Institute for Telecommunications Studies Monograph, Ohio University, Athens, 1997, was also a paper presented to the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR) conference, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 1997.
• "CNN World Report: Ted Turner's International News Coup," an invited presentation to the CNN World Report Contributors Conference, Turner Broadcasting System, Atlanta GA,May 1993.

• "The Weekly World Report on CNN, An Analysis," by Chuck Ganzert and Don Flournoy, JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, Vol.69, No.1, Spring 1992.

• "Development Orientation of Domestic and International News on the CNN World Report by Chun-il Park and Don Flournoy, Sixth Annual Research Conference, Ohio University, April 1992.

• "Women on the CNN World Report: Reporters and Actors in International Television News," Rani Dilawari and Don Flournoy, Sixth Annual Research Conference, Ohio University, April 1992; also accepted for presentation at the International Communications Association Conference (ICA), Miami, May 1992.

• "Satellite News Exchanges: Historical Perspectives and Comment," a peer-reviewed invited paper presented to the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 1992.

• "The Role of Communication in National Development: Theory and Practice" by Chun-il Park, Rani Dilawari and Don Flournoy, a peer-reviewed invited paper presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) Montreal, Canada, August 1992.

• CNN WORLD REPORT: TED TURNER'S INTERNATIONAL NEWS COUP, London: John Libbey & Co., Ltd., 1992. This book written by ITS director Don Flournoy has been cited in literally dozens of masters theses and doctoral dissertations. It was re-issued in 1994. When the book was no longer in print, CNN asked for permission to post the full text on www.cnn.com under World Report, where it remained for several years.

• "International Distribution of CNN's World Report," SATELLITE
  COMMUNICATIONS, February 1991 was an article written by ITS director Don Flournoy.

• "Development News in CNN's World Report," by Rani Dilawari, Robert Stewart and Don Flournoy, GAZETTE, Winter 1991.

• "Results of the International Survey of TV News Organizations Contributing to CNN's World Report," Don Flournoy and Robert Stewart gave an invited presentation to the "Impact of Television News on Political Change" conference, TBS, One CNN Center, Atlanta GA, September 1990.

• "Emergence of International News Exchanges: The New Global Journalism," this peer-reviewed invited paper was delivered by ITS Director Don Flournoy to the International Association of Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), Bled, Yugoslavia, August 1990.

• "Development News in CNN's World Report," Rani Dilawari, Robert Stewart and Don Flournoy wrote and presented this peer-reviewed invited paper to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Minneapolis MN, August 1990.

• "The Developing Story of Cable's International News Coverage," a chapter in L. John Martin and Ray Eldon Hiebert, eds, CURRENT ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION, White Plains, New York: Longman, 1990, authored by ITS director Don Flournoy.

• "International News Flow Surges into the 1990s," MEDIA DEVELOPMENT, Vol.XXXVII/4,1990. This Don Flournoy article also appeared in condensed form in SASARAN, magazine of the School of Mass Communication, MARA Institute of Technology, Malaysia, under the title "Emergence of the International News Exchanges."

• "Research Report: Global News Exchanges" by Robert Stewart and Don Flournoy was an invited presentation to a five-day "Power of Television News on a Shrinking Planet" meeting of CNN affiliates and World Report contributors at TBS, Atlanta GA, May 1989.

• "Televised International News in Five Countries: Thoroughness, Insularity and Agenda Capacity" by Anne M. Cooper and Don Flournoy was a peer-reviewed invited paper presented to the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), Barcelona, Spain, July 1988.

• "Emerging From the Periphery: Regional Satellite News Exchanges in Asia" was a peer-reviewed invited paper presented by Don Flournoy to the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR) meeting, New Delhi, India, August 1986.

• With Aida Aidakyeva, a Muskie Fellow from Kyrgyzstan, Don Flournoy presented an invited peer-reviewed paper entitled, “Streaming Television: Participatory Democracy on the Rise? Not in Russia” to the 2003 Democratization of the Media Conference at MIT, Cambridge MA, April 2003. An abstract of the paper appeared in the conference proceedings and the full paper was published online.

• With Vladimir Bratic, a Ron Brown fellow from Bosnia, Don Flournoy presented a paper entitled "Transnational Political Activism and Global Fusion: The Independent Media Centers," at the MIT Media in Transition Conference, Cambridge MA, May 2002. Don Flournoy also presented a paper entitled “Innovation and Obsolescence: The Sword of Advancing Technologies That Cuts Two Ways.” These were published by MIT online.

• CONTENT ANALYSIS OF INDONESIAN NEWSPAPERS, Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1992. This is a Don Flournoy edited book with a preface by Distinguished Professor Dr. Guido Stempel, Ohio University. The book first appeared in the Indonesian language as ANALISA ISI SURATKABAR SURATKABAR INDONESIA, Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1989. The book has chapters by six of Indonesia’s top journalists, including the former Director General of Radio/TV/Film, the former Director of TVRI State Television and the current editor of Republika, Jakarta’s third largest newspaper.

• "Media Images of Canada: U.S. Media Coverage of Canadian Issues and U.S. Awareness of Those Issues" by Guido Stempel and Don Flournoy was published by OHIO JOURNALISM MONOGRAPHS, Bush Research Center, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University, August 1992. This research was commissioned and funded by the Canadian Consulate to examine coverage of Canada in the U.S. press and on television during 1991-1993. Data collection, analysis and reporting on findings of the study resulted in several articles and papers in addition to this widely distributed monograph.

• “U.S. Media Coverage of Canada and U.S. Public Awareness of Canadian Issues” by Don Flournoy, Debra Mason, Robert Nanney and Guido Stempel was an invited presentation at the convention of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, New Orleans LA, November 1993.

• "Images of Canada in the U.S. Media" by Don Flournoy and Guido Stempel was a presentation to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC), Montreal, Canada, August 1992.

• "Monday Memo: A Global News Commentary" by Don Flournoy appeared in BROADCASTING, November 20, 1989. The weekly BROADCASTING was the largest circulation magazine serving the media industry at the time.

• "The Developing Story of Cable's International News Coverage: A Commentary on Global News,” BROADCASTING, February 22, 1988. On the basis of this article, Ted Turner invited Don Flournoy to attend his annual meetings with international affiliates (and other events) at One CNN Center, Atlanta, and at the United Nations, New York, over the following ten years.

• "Satellite News Exchanges in Asia" was an invited presentation by Don Flournoy delivered at the International Television Studies Conference (ITSC), London, England, July 1986.

• "Asiavision: Satellite News Exchange," a presentation by Don Flournoy to the Broadcast Education Association/National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas NV, April 12-14, 1985.

• "Asian Countries Form Local News Exchanges," an article by Don Flournoy appearing in the trade journal ELECTRONIC MEDIA, October 7, 1985.