Media ownership and concentration has major implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It is also a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconis companies have dominated Italian politi…
Introduction -- Methodology -- Media concentration around the world -- Country studies A. Europe. Belgium / Peggy Valcke, Jo Groebel, and Moritz Bittner -- Finland / Mikko Gronlund -- France / Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd -- Germany / Juli…
Media ownership and concentration has major implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It is also a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi's companies have dominated Italian polit…
This publication moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, it covers 13 media indus…