more, but rather by the time-sensitivity of the information.
FBIS’s throughput is rapid, so their Daily Reports are for short shelf-life news: crises and coups, travels by heads of state, political and economic announcements, military activity, etc. FBIS is essentially an overnight translation service for news from abroad that might affect U.S. foreign policy.
JPRS doesn’t move quite so quickly, but the texts they go after are relevant over a longer time period. Like FBIS, they quote from broadcasts and newspapers; more characteristically, JPRS draws
material from magazines, specialized journals, books and printed ephemera: commentaries, position papers, local-color and
think-pieces, analyses of current trends, scientific and technical