Media Ownership, Journalism and Diversity : What's Wrong with Media Monopolies?

Barnett, Steven

Bloomsbury Academic USA（2022/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781623561659
• DDC分類 302.23

Full Description

Media companies are in the midst of fundamental transformation. The industrial pragmatism needed to survive in 21st century business models, however, collides with the need for diversity of voice in a healthy democracy.

Such tensions raise crucial questions about the nature and significance of different ownership regimes for journalism. It's important that we understand the trajectory of current policy thinking and explore alternative and more creative policy initiatives which might promote diversity without prejudicing business interests. Media Ownership, Journalism and Diversity analyzes these issues within the UK using evidence gathered from personal interviews with senior policy makers and through analysis of evidence to a 2008 House of Lords select inquiry committee on news and media ownership, for which the author was specialist advisor. The material is set within a broader international context, and up through the period of the News Corp hacking crisis.

Contents

1: Contemporary Context: Ownership and the 'Crisis' in Journalism

2: Theoretical Overview: Pluralism, Democracy and Free Speech

3: Why Ownership Matters

4: Historical Background to Policy and Practice in the UK

5: Media Ownership Policy in the 1990s in the UK

6: Media Ownership Policy, New Labour and the 2003 Communications Act

7: Broadcasting and Impartiality: Why Ownership Still Matters

8: Alternative Ownership Models: Structures, Funding and Impact

9: Convergence and the Role of the Internet

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