No innocents: Platforms, politics, and media struggling with digital governance

Tomaz, Tales; Trappel, Josef

doi:10.1515/commun-2023-0066

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“…These factors show that claims about a growing crisis of reach across the legacy news industry are overstated. As a recent 18 nation survey of news performance concluded: ‘media reach remains high’ (Tomaz and Trappel, 2022: 26). That said, digital adaptation has diminished the public profile of some established news providers.…”

Section: The Crisis Of Reachmentioning

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Why mainstream news media still matter

Deacon,

Smith,

Wring

2024

Media, Culture & Society

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It is frequently claimed that mainstream news organisations are in crisis and becoming ever more marginalised in the contemporary high-choice media environment. Such claims frequently conflate different challenges facing the industry, resulting in over-generalised claims about the prospects for established news brands. In this article, we identify four related crises: reach, resource, reputation and relevance. Through the analysis of each, we show that many claims about the displacement of mainstream news are overstated, but that the interactive aspects of these crises are presenting particularly significant challenges for local news production and news organisations orientated towards impartiality norms.

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Section: The Crisis Of Reachmentioning

confidence: 99%