Media capture : how money, digital platforms, and governments control the news / edited by Anya Schiffrin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schiffrin, Anya, 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government and the press.

Mass media and business.

Freedom of the press.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, New York State : Columbia University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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, 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.

Contents:

Overview. Introduction / Anya Schiffrin

How Silicon Valley copied Wall Street's media capture playbook / Rana Foroohar

From media capture to platform capture / Nikki Usher

Media capture and the crisis in local journalism / Philip M. Napoli

Nobody home / Noam Cohen

Examples of problems. A serf on Google's farm / Josh Marshall

The rise and fall of blogging in the 2000s / Felix Salmon

Digital payola : policing the open contributor network / James Ledbetter

Media capture and the corporate education-reform philanthropies / Andrea Gabor

Using old media to capture new in Turkey / Andrew Finkel

A loud silence / Raju Narisetti

The capture of Britain's feral beast / Mary Fitzgerald, James Cusick, and Peter Geoghegan

Solutions. A global strategy for combating media capture / Mark M. Nelson

The hamster wheel, triumphant : commercial models for journalism are not working; let's try something else / Dean Starkman and Ryan Chittum

Building trust (and a trust) / Andrew Sullivan

Defending vanguard journalists / Joel Simon

Do technology companies care about journalism? / Emily Bell.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Media capture.

ISBN:

0-231-54802-8

OCLC:

1266228954