Media Power and Plurality From Hyperlocal to High-Level Policy

While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-making on media plurality and explores novel policy ideas for funding, regulatory and structural interventions.

Introduction; Steven Barnett and Judith Townend 1. What is 'Sufficient' Plurality?; Thomas Gibbons 2 Diversity, Distribution and Definitions of 'Media'; Lorna Woods 3. Plurality and Public Service Broadcasting: Why and How PSBs Deserve Protection; Steven Barnett 4. Plurality and Local Media; Martin Moore 5. Hyperlocal media and the News Marketplace; Judith Townend 6. Media Ownership and the Political Economy of Research in US Media Policymaking; Philip Napoli 7. From Media Policy to 'Big' Media Policy: the Battle for Pluralism in Australia; Benedetta Brevini 8. Media Plurality: What Can the European Union Do?; Alison Harcourt 9. Transferable Media Pluralism Policies from Europe; Peter Humphreys 10. Media Plurality in France; Raymond Kuhn 11. Media Subsidies – Editorial Independence Compromised?; Josef Trappel 12. Putting Ends and Means in the Right Place: Media Pluralism Policies in Central and Eastern Europe; Beata Klimkiewicz

Steven Barnett, University of Westminster, UK Benedetta Brevini, University of Sydney, Australia Thomas Gibbons, University of Manchester, UK Martin Moore, King's College London, UK Alison Harcourt, University of Exeter, UK Peter Humphreys, University of Manchester, UK Beata Klimkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland Raymond Kuhn, Queen Mary University of London, UK Philip M. Napoli, Rutgers University, USA Judith Townend, University of London, UK Josef Trappel, University of Salzburg, Austria Lorna Woods, University of Essex, UK