This article analyzes the extent to which diverse institutional logics (stock market, privately
held, civil society, public) are linked to the exercise of one important mode of media …

This chapter presents a new way to study news media ownership. It argues that instead of
focusing on individual media moguls or market concentration, sociologists should analyze …

Although “media ownership” is a fairly straightforward concept, it can be further qualified
according to a variety of forms. hese include horizontal (the ownership of distinct but similar …

The ownership and funding of media organisations inevitably affects what news we receive
everyday. But is public or private ownership better? Looking at how news is constructed in …

The ownership and control debate in media research concerns very different issues from the
classic microeconomics debate about corporate ownership and control (Mastrini and …

Does type of ownership of media really matter for the quality of news that is produced? In the
United States, there was a time when many journalists might have said “no. Inside …

The mass media are a special case of interest articulation in a democracy because they play
two distinct roles. On the one hand, mass media provide information about efforts by various …

Scholars assert that patterns of media ownership affect news coverage and quality of
information, but measuring the influence of media owners on their institutions is difficult …

Two interesting dimensions emerge from investigations of press-state relationships in the
western democratic nations: consistently strong norms favoring press freedom and …

Independence and autonomy from political power are core values among professional
journalists in most western societies. At the same time, research has shown that news media …