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Media Ownership Monitor India
Reporters Without Borders; Data Leads (2019), 1360 pp.
"The Media Ownership Monitor – India finds out that while the ownership of media seems fairly plural at the national level, it is highly concentrated when one zooms into the regional level. More importantly, prominent national players have ceded their position of eminence at the regional level, wh
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Media Ownership Monitor Egypt
Reporters Without Borders (2019), 687 pp.
"A hostile takeover of Egypt’s media is under way, leaving the influence on public opinion to be controlled by the state, the secret services and a few wealthy owners loyal to the regime and with close ties to the former president Hosni Mubarak. In a move to gain influence over the State-owned med
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Media Ownership Monitor Argentina
Reporters Without Borders; Tiempo Argentino (2019), 1210 pp.
"The sample of media investigated by MOM includes 52 national outlets: 14 Television channels, 14 radio stations, 10 printed newspapers and 14 news websites. Most of them are owned by a few private companies mostly located in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. They concentrate audience shares, i
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Media Ownership Monitor Mexico
Reporters Without Borders; Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (Cencos) (2018), 1547 pp.
"Mexico’s booming media industry is controlled by some of the richest businessmen on earth. While the sector grows at a rate three times that of the overall economy, an alarming concentration of media ownership goes hand in hand with the well-known lack of safety for Mexico’s journalists, many o
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Media Ownership Monitor Albania
Reporters Without Borders; Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) (2018), 871 pp.
"The boundaries between media, politics and business have always been blurry in Albania. However, because of the small size and the high number of outlets the market was perceived by some local observers as vibrant and plural. However, a joint research project between Reporters Without Borders and t
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Media Ownership Monitor Tanzania
Reporters Without Borders; Media Council of Tanzania (2018), 739 pp.
"Only a few media companies have a predominant market position and thus a potentially high influence on public opinion in Tanzania. Whereas the regulatory framework should in theory safeguard media pluralism and prevent media concentration, it shows considerable gaps in practice. Moreover, the legal
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"2017 was marred by the assassination, in Malta, of the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, an event which represented the darkest hour for media freedom and media pluralism in the European Union since the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre in France. This crime has profoundly shaken Europe an
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Media Ownership Monitor Lebanon
Reporters Without Borders; Samir Kassir Foundation (2018), 1323 pp.
"The seemingly buzzing Lebanese media market is, in fact, controlled by only a few highly politicized owners that are either directly affiliated with political parties or belong to Lebanese dynasties. Additional threats to media pluralism arise from clear editorial lines defined by politics, close t
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Les médias en Afrique depuis les indépendances: Bilan, enjeux et perspectives
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 268 pp.
Power Structure in Chilean News Media
Plos One, volume 13, issue 6 (2018), 18 pp.
"To study the effects of consolidation and ownership on news diversity, we model the diversity of Chilean coverage on the basis of ownership records and social media data. We create similarity networks of news outlets on the basis of their ownership and the topics they cover. We then examine the rel
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Media Ownership Monitor Sri Lanka
Reporters Without Borders; Verité Research (2018), 825 pp.
"Viewership, listenership and readership in the Sri Lankan media market is highly concentrated among a few media owners, many of whom have political affiliations. Limited access to ownership information and a number of regulatory shortcomings pose a further threat to media pluralism in the country."
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Media Pluralism, Public Trust, and Democracy: New Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2018), 25 pp.
"There has been a decline in trust in the media in the LAC region. While in 2004 nearly two-thirds of individuals reported having high trust in the media, this result dropped to only half of individuals in 2016/17. Individuals who perceive the media as representative of different viewpoints or who h
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Media Ownership Monitor Brazil
Reporters Without Borders; Intervozes (2017), 925 pp.
"Power in Brazil means family business, both traditionally and to this very day. Dynasties of landowners known as “Colonels” extend their territorial claims to the airwaves, combining economic and political interests with tight control of public opinion. Neither digital technology and the rise o
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"El presente artículo analiza la participación de los medios comunitarios y su importancia para la democratización de la comunicación en Ecuador en el marco del Concurso Público de Frecuencias de Radio y Televisión de señal abierta, convocado en 2016. Este concurso cobró importancia en la ag
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Concentration of Media Ownership and Freedom of Expression: Global Standards and Implications for the Americas
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 33 pp.
"The idea of rules limiting concentration of media ownership is often cast by media owners as a restriction on their right to freedom of expression. Unfortunately, the behaviour of States in Latin America has often lent support to this perspective, especially when States abuse for political ends the
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El suelo no está parejo: Límites y posibilidades de los medios locales en un mercado altamente concentrado
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"Este artículo expone los principales rasgos del mercado de la radio y la televisión de señal abierta en el Perú, y hace hincapié en los niveles de concentración de la inversión publicitaria, el control de las frecuencias y el marco regulatorio hecho a la medida de los grupos mediáticos más
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Media Ownership Monitor Morocco
Reporters Without Borders; Le Desk (2017), 618 pp.
"Nine of the 36 media companies involved in Morocco’s most influential media are directly linked to the state, the government or the royal family. Four of them – SOREAD, SNRT, EcoMedias and Horizon Press – are among the most important media companies in terms of turnover and show the potential
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La concentración infocomunicacional en América Latina 2000-2015: Nuevos medios y tecnologías, menos actores
Top Insights
Bernal: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; Observacom (2017), 228 pp.
"Hasta 2014, eran cinco los principales grupos que operaban en la región con capacidad de liderazgo y expansión más allá de las fronteras geográficas y de sectorización industrial: en orden de importancia a partir de su facturación, se trataba de Telefónica, América Móvil, Globo, Televisa
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Media Ownership Monitor Ghana
Reporters Without Borders; Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2017), 567 pp.
"The Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) reveals a high level of audience concentration in various media sectors. An almost maximum concentration was found among the printed press, where the top four media companies (Graphic Communications Group Limited, New Times Corporation, Western Publications Limited
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Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
Top Insights
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xix, 1412 pp.
"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati
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