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How Media Ownership Matters

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Nonfiction: Social Sciences
Unabridged   9.0 hour(s)
Publication date: 05/13/2025

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How Media Ownership Matters

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Digital Download ISBN:9781696695022

Summary

How Media Ownership Matters provides a fresh approach to understanding news media power, moving beyond the typical emphasis on market concentration or media moguls. Through a comparative analysis of the US, Sweden, and France, as well as interviews of news executives and editors and an original collection of industry data, this book maps and analyzes four ownership models: market, private, civil society, and public.

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Does it matter who owns and funds the media? As journalists and management consultants set off in search of new business models, there's a pressing need to understand anew the economic underpinnings of journalism and its role in democratic societies.

How Media Ownership Matters provides a fresh approach to understanding news media power, moving beyond the typical emphasis on market concentration or media moguls. Through a comparative analysis of the US, Sweden, and France, as well as interviews of news executives and editors and an original collection of industry data, this book maps and analyzes four ownership models: market, private, civil society, and public. Highlighting the effects of organizational logics, funding, and target audiences on the content of news, the authors identify both the strengths and weaknesses various forms of ownership have in facilitating journalism that meets the democratic ideals of reasoned, critical, and inclusive public debate. Ultimately, How Media Ownership Matters provides a roadmap to understanding how variable forms of ownership are shaping the future of journalism and democracy.

Author Bio

Rodney Benson is professor of media, culture, and communication and affiliated faculty in sociology at New York University. He is the author of Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison, coauthor of Public Media and Political Independence, and coeditor of Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field. Mattias Hessérus is director of the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy and sits on the steering committee of the Engelsberg Applied History Programme at the University of Cambridge and King's College London. He is the author of Rätten till privatlivet, a history of the press and privacy in Sweden. Timothy Neff is lecturer in journalism at the University of Leicester's School of Arts, Media and Communication. His research on journalism, democracy, public spheres, and climate change has been published in numerous academic journals. Julie Sedel is assistant professor in sociology and political science at the University of Strasbourg. She is the author of Les médias et la banlieue, Dirigeants de médias, and Sociologie des dirigeants de presse, and coeditor of Agir par la parole: Porte-paroles et asymétries de l'espace public.