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Who Owns the World's Media? 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, the book covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries.
Media product portfolios are rapidly becoming the predominant shared characteristic of media companies worldwide. This volume is the result of a coordinated effort of scholars in the United States and Europe to explore the characteristics,
The U.S. financial system is more prone to systemic risk today than ever before. Credit default swaps (CDS) are one of the products that have assumed a key role in financial markets. This statement discusses: (1) the extent to which U.S. financial regulators and the UK regulator oversee CDS; (2) risks and challenges that CDS present to the stability of financial markets and institutions and similar concerns that other products may pose; and (3) the recent steps that financial regulators and the industry have taken to address risks pose by CDS and similar efforts that may be warranted for other financial products. Illustrations.
Ever since newspaper companies first turned to their governments for support in the 1950s, print media has been supported by state aid in many parts of the world. Today, the principles and practicalities of these subsidies have been called into question, endangering the secure funding of expensive high-quality press output. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of today’s global challenges in the print news media’s struggle for survival. It presents current practices concerning government subsidies to newspapers for political, economic, and socio-cultural purposes against the background of declining readership and revenues, increased inter-media competition, austerity budgets impos...
This book explores television's role in fostering European cultural identity and the extent to which European public service broadcasters were able to meet the challenges posed by the introduction of new communication technologies.