How Media Ownership Matters

Ownership has always been assumed, in both scholarship and public discussion, to be a key factor affecting the production of news. But it's also something extremely hard to study systematically. How Media Ownership Matters is the finest work to date on this subject, rigorous and complex at the same time engaging and accessible. It's a wonderful contribution to the political economy of news. * Daniel C. Hallin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego *
Everyone seriously interested in the links between media ownership, funding models, and investment in news reporting should read this book. It is a major advance of our understanding of media ownership and how it matters, bringing extensive evidence and analytical clarity to an area all too often either ignored or reduced to polemics. * Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford *
How Media Ownership Matters takes political economy scholarship out of its overdetermined focus on media consolidation. With a cross-national, empirically driven analysis of institutional, political, and cultural logics of the news industry, this book will be foundational to anyone hoping to understand not just how but why media ownership matters. * Nikki Usher, Associate Professor of Communication, University of San Diego *