The Independence Of The News Media

Author : Loïc Ballarini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030340544

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The Independence of the News Media by Loïc Ballarini Pdf

This book explores the different ways Francophone research on news media has faced the challenges of dependence and independence from three complementary perspectives. The first is economics - how can sustainable business models be developed and to what extent can crowdfunding help to maintain the financial and editorial independence of newsrooms? Secondly, in a time where the role of journalism in the public sphere is more questioned than ever, the authors evaluate to what extent news media can embody the needs of their readers. Thirdly, the authors consider the historical and political context of publication in the light of the ‘Arab Spring’. This book deals with major, contemporary evolutions of news media, bringing together research that considers the media in France, Canada, and the Arab region (notably Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt). Using numerous case studies, this book helps to define how complex the question of independence is today.

Author : James Bennett,Niki Strange
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317690344

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Media Independence by James Bennett,Niki Strange Pdf

Media independence is central to the organization, make-up, working practices and output of media systems across the globe. Often stemming from western notions of individual and political freedoms, independence has informed the development of media across a range of platforms: from the freedom of the press as the "fourth estate" and the rise of Hollywood’s Independent studios and Independent television in Britain, through to the importance of "Indy" labels in music and gaming and the increasing importance of independence of voice in citizen journalism. Media independence for many, therefore, has come to mean working with freedom: from state control or interference, from monopoly, from market forces, as well as freedom to report, comment, create and document without fear of persecution. However, far from a stable concept that informs all media systems, the notion of media independence has long been contested, forming a crucial tension point in the regulation, shape, size and role of the media around the globe. Contributors including David Hesmondhalgh, Gholam Khiabany, José van Dijck, Hector Postigo, Anthony Fung, Stuart Allan and Geoff King demonstrate how the notion of independence has remained paramount, but contested, in ideals of what the media is for, how it should be regulated, what it should produce and what working within it should be like. They address questions of economics, labor relations, production cultures, ideologies and social functions.

Author : Wolfgang Schulz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 178320320X

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The Independence of the Media and Its Regulatory Agencies by Wolfgang Schulz Pdf

Media independence is vital for democracies, and so is the independence of the regulatory bodies governing it. The Independence of the Media and its Regulatory Agencies explores the complex relationship between media governance and independence of media regulatory authorities within Europe, which form part of the wider framework in which media's independence may flourish or fade. Based on research in more than forty countries, the contributions analyze the independence of regulators and draw links between social, financial, and legal frameworks.

Author : Leonard R. Sussman,Ronald Koven,Thomas A. Dine,Freedom House (U.S.)
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015059590904

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Freedom of the Press 2003 by Leonard R. Sussman,Ronald Koven,Thomas A. Dine,Freedom House (U.S.) Pdf

The annual Freedom of the Press, which tracks trends in media freedom worldwide, appears for the first time as an expanded book. Covering 192 countries, the survey provides numerical ratings of the level of press freedom in each country. The Freedom House survey team also assesses the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. Essays include a 25-year retrospective of press freedom and a timely analysis of the upcoming World Summits on the Information Society (2003 and 2005). Academics in several disciplines, governments, the news media, and the World Bank employ Freedom of the Press as a standard reference.

Author : UNESCO,University of Oxford (UK)
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231002427

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World trends in freedom of expression and media development by UNESCO,University of Oxford (UK) Pdf

In the face of such challenges, this new volume in the World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development series offers a critical analysis of new trends in media freedom, pluralism, independence and the safety of journalists.

Author : Freedom House (U.S.)
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015060623967

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Freedom of the Press 2004 by Freedom House (U.S.) Pdf

Freedom of the press 2003 : a global survey of media independence / Edited by Karin Deutsch Karlekar with essays by Brian Katulis, Jeremy Druker and Dean Cox, and Ronald Koven.

Author : Freedom House (U.S.)
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0742555828

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Freedom of the Press 2007 by Freedom House (U.S.) Pdf

This annual press freedom survey, now covering 195 countries and territories, has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide sine 1980. It provides comparative rankings and examines the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information.

Author : Raviola, Elena
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781802200379

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Organizing Independence by Raviola, Elena Pdf

Author : Ireton, Cherilyn,Posetti, Julie
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Fake news
ISBN : 9789231002816

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Journalism, fake news & disinformation by Ireton, Cherilyn,Posetti, Julie Pdf

Author : Anya Schiffrin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231548021

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Media Capture by Anya Schiffrin Pdf

Who controls the media today? There are many media systems across the globe that claim to be free yet whose independence has been eroded. As demagogues rise, independent voices have been squeezed out. Corporate-owned media companies that act in the service of power increasingly exercise soft censorship. Tech giants such as Facebook and Google have dramatically changed how people access information, with consequences that are only beginning to be felt. This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture—how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors including Emily Bell, Felix Salmon, Joshua Marshall, Joel Simon, and Nikki Usher analyze diverse cases of media capture worldwide—from the United Kingdom to Turkey to India and beyond—many drawn from firsthand experience. They examine the role played by new media companies and funders, showing how the confluence of the growth of big tech and falling revenues for legacy media has led to new forms of control. Contributions also shed light on how the rise of right-wing populists has catalyzed the crisis of global media. They also chart a way forward, exploring the growing need for a policy response and sustainable models for public-interest investigative journalism. Providing valuable insight into today’s urgent threats to media independence, Media Capture is essential reading for anyone concerned with defending press freedom in the digital age.

Author : Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509540525

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Platforms and Cultural Production by Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy Pdf

The widespread uptake of digital platforms – from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok – is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways. Longstanding media industries are experiencing tremendous upheaval, while new industrial formations – live-streaming, social media influencing, and podcasting, among others – are evolving at breakneck speed. Poell, Nieborg, and Duffy explore both the processes and the implications of platformization across the cultural industries, identifying key changes in markets, infrastructures, and governance at play in this ongoing transformation, as well as pivotal shifts in the practices of labor, creativity, and democracy. The authors foreground three particular industries – news, gaming, and social media creation – and also draw upon examples from music, advertising, and more. Diverse in its geographic scope, Platforms and Cultural Production builds on the latest research and accounts from across North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and China to reveal crucial differences and surprising parallels in the trajectories of platformization across the globe. Offering a novel conceptual framework grounded in illuminating case studies, this book is essential for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand how the institutions and practices of cultural production are transforming – and what the stakes are for understanding platform power.

Author : Karin Deutsch Karlekar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Freedom of the press
ISBN : UOM:39015062880938

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Freedom of the Press 2005 by Karin Deutsch Karlekar Pdf

Freedom House's annual press freedom survey, now covering 194 countries and territories, has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980. Featuring a new overview of the state of press freedom from senior researcher and editor Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Freedom of the Press 2005 provides comparative rankings and examines the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. This survey is the most authoritative assessment of media freedom around the world. Its findings are widely utilized by policymakers, scholars, press freedom advocates, journalists, and international institutions.

Author : James T. Hamilton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400841417

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All the News That's Fit to Sell by James T. Hamilton Pdf

That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. But in All the News That's Fit to Sell, economist James Hamilton shows just how this happens. Furthermore, many complaints about journalism--media bias, soft news, and pundits as celebrities--arise from the impact of this economic logic on news judgments. This is the first book to develop an economic theory of news, analyze evidence across a wide range of media markets on how incentives affect news content, and offer policy conclusions. Media bias, for instance, was long a staple of the news. Hamilton's analysis of newspapers from 1870 to 1900 reveals how nonpartisan reporting became the norm. A hundred years later, some partisan elements reemerged as, for example, evening news broadcasts tried to retain young female viewers with stories aimed at their (Democratic) political interests. Examination of story selection on the network evening news programs from 1969 to 1998 shows how cable competition, deregulation, and ownership changes encouraged a shift from hard news about politics toward more soft news about entertainers. Hamilton concludes by calling for lower costs of access to government information, a greater role for nonprofits in funding journalism, the development of norms that stress hard news reporting, and the defining of digital and Internet property rights to encourage the flow of news. Ultimately, this book shows that by more fully understanding the economics behind the news, we will be better positioned to ensure that the news serves the public good.

Author : Freedom House (U.S.)
Publisher : Freedom of the Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 074255435X

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Freedom of the Press 2006 by Freedom House (U.S.) Pdf

This annual press freedom survey, now covering 194 countries and territories, has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide sine 1980. It provides comparative rankings and examines the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. This edition includes the timely essay on the Muhammad cartoon controversy and the challenges it has posed to freedom of expression principles.

Author : W. Lance Bennett,Regina G. Lawrence,Steven Livingston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226042862

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When the Press Fails by W. Lance Bennett,Regina G. Lawrence,Steven Livingston Pdf

A sobering look at the intimate relationship between political power and the news media, When the Press Fails argues the dependence of reporters on official sources disastrously thwarts coverage of dissenting voices from outside the Beltway. The result is both an indictment of official spin and an urgent call to action that questions why the mainstream press failed to challenge the Bush administration’s arguments for an invasion of Iraq or to illuminate administration policies underlying the Abu Ghraib controversy. Drawing on revealing interviews with Washington insiders and analysis of content from major news outlets, the authors illustrate the media’s unilateral surrender to White House spin whenever oppositional voices elsewhere in government fall silent. Contrasting these grave failures with the refreshingly critical reporting on Hurricane Katrina—a rare event that caught officials off guard, enabling journalists to enter a no-spin zone—When the Press Fails concludes by proposing new practices to reduce reporters’ dependence on power. “The hand-in-glove relationship of the U.S. media with the White House is mercilessly exposed in this determined and disheartening study that repeatedly reveals how the press has toed the official line at those moments when its independence was most needed.”—George Pendle, Financial Times “Bennett, Lawrence, and Livingston are indisputably right about the news media’s dereliction in covering the administration’s campaign to take the nation to war against Iraq.”—Don Wycliff, Chicago Tribune “[This] analysis of the weaknesses of Washington journalism deserves close attention.”—Russell Baker, New York Review of Books