Reconciling the Economic Sustainability of Radio Broadcasters in Slovenia with Pluralism and Diversity

Hrovatin, Nevenka; Mencej, Rok

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“…A plethora of scholars has looked at the effects of increased concentration, changing market structures and/or digital developments in media markets on content diversity. This has been the case for both legacy media such as radio (Compaine and Smith, 2001;Hrovatin and Mencej, 2016;Jeziorski, 2014;Sweeting, 2010), the movie sector (Kawashima, 2011;Park, 2011), television (Adilov and Martin, 2014;Mwangi, 2015;Rennhoff and Wilbur, 2014) and print (Beckers et al, 2017;Björkroth and Grönlund, 2014;Horwitz, 2005;Micó et al, 2009;Ohlsson, 2012;Ots, 2012) and, more recently, for so-called 'new media' such as online news (Cage et al, 2015;Carpenter, 2010;Faustino, 2013;Redden and Witschge, 2010;Smyrnaios et al, 2010;Winseck, 2008) and social media (Bozdag and van de Poel, 2013).…”

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Why and how higher media concentration equals lower news diversity – The Mediahuis case

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Ranaivoson

2019

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This article critically assesses the effects of media mergers on news diversity at Mediahuis, one of the leading players in the media market of the Belgian region of Flanders. The founding of Mediahuis (in 2013) has led to an extremely concentrated Flemish newspaper market, as it owns and publishes four of the seven daily newspapers. We conducted ethnographic research inside the newsroom of Het Nieuwsblad, Mediahuis’ biggest newspaper, and assess the editorial independence, the changes journalists face on a daily basis due to ongoing digitalization, changing roles and values both within and beyond journalism, and the effect of the merger on the media management of what is now Mediahuis. We also performed an in-depth news diversity study in which we analysed over 3000 newspaper articles appearing in 2013 and 2018 in the four papers. Using this mixed method approach of combining ethnographic research and content analyses, the global results of this study reveal that while the editorial independence has been fairly well maintained, there has been a drastic increase in the number of articles being recycled across newspapers. Overall, over half of all articles produced for four of the seven Flemish newspapers are recycled in at least two of the four Mediahuis newspapers on a daily basis, with an increase from 36 to 51 per cent between 2013 and 2018. This practice has been facilitated by lowering the total number of working journalists, and sharing a content management system which facilitates copy-pasting articles across newspapers and websites.

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Why and how higher media concentration equals lower news diversity – The Mediahuis case

Hendrickx

Ranaivoson

2019

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Licencing frameworks are embedded with sociotechnical imaginaries that limit the potential for networked technologies to make traditional media forms, like radio, more inclusive. We sought to refine and extend a platform, RootIO, which aims to enable diverse people to run small radio stations by using internet and mobile networks that avoid the costs of studios and specialist equipment. We situated design and refinement in the activities of groups that set up and ran four community stations in rural Romania and some Irish islands over three-years and found national regulations limited who articulated requirements. Activities in applying for, and complying with, licences shaped design priorities, embedded temporal demands, certain organisational structures and division of responsibilities, and assumptions about studios and professionalism. Indeed, small radio stations are subject to the same values as large media corporations that pursue market power. Regulatory frameworks are specific to nations and media form, yet our analysis illustrates that they impede designing platforms to widen inclusion by enacting broader sociotechnical imaginaries. We hope this reflection provokes discussion, in HCI and CSCW, about our responsibilities in engaging with the policies that shape possible futures.

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Reconciling the Economic Sustainability of Radio Broadcasters in Slovenia with Pluralism and Diversity

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