Markets, Ownership, and the Quality of Campaign News Coverage

Dunaway, Johanna

doi:10.1017/s0022381608081140

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“…The pattern emerges because owners and operators believe that substantive coverage of policy issues is less appealing to most audiences (Hamilton, 2004). Supporting this logic, Dunaway (2008) demonstrates that corporate ownership is negatively associated with substantive, issue-focused news and that, conversely, large, privately owned newspapers are the most likely of any type of news outlet to produce substantive issue coverage over more entertaining fare.…”

Section: Economic Incentives For Game-framed News: Ownership Consolimentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Zaller (1999) and Arnold (2004) find evidence that increases in market competition create the need for more profitseeking, which results in a reduction in substantive political news. Similarly, Dunaway (2008) finds that when local television news outlets face more competition in their markets they offer less coverage of policy issues in campaign news and more horse-race and strategy-framed news.…”

Section: Economic Incentives For Game-framed News: Market Penetrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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What Predicts the Game Frame? Media Ownership, Electoral Context, and Campaign News

Dunaway¹,

Lawrence

2015

Political Communication

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While scholars have often bemoaned journalists' heavy use of game-framed and "horse-race" coverage of elections, the contexts most likely to produce game-framed news have not yet been well identified. Our data collection across three election cycles (2004, 2006, 2008) and various levels of elective office (candidates for governor and U.S Senate), and across multiple media markets and types of news organizations allows us to examine the extent to which all three classes of contextual variables-the internal news-making context, the media economic market context, and the electoral political context-influence the provision of game-frame election coverage. We find that news organizations' choices to rely heavily on game-frame election stories are dependent on both news-making and political contexts. These findings contribute to the ongoing debate on the relationship of media ownership to news quality, tempered by firm evidence that news outlets of all kinds tend to focus on the "game" of politics when electoral contests are close.

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Section: Economic Incentives For Game-framed News: Ownership Consolimentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Economic Incentives For Game-framed News: Market Penetrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Predicts the Game Frame? Media Ownership, Electoral Context, and Campaign News

Dunaway¹,

Lawrence

2015

Political Communication

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“…Na verdade, não ficaria surpreso em encontrar situações de vieses de cobertura ainda mais fortes contra partidos ou candidatos, principalmente em cidades, estados ou regiões onde os veículos são mais dependentes, financeiramente, do apoio governamental, ou de propriedade de políticos. (ABRAMO, 2007;DUNAWAY, 2008;BOAS e HIDALGO, 2011) Acredito que o índice de viés anti-PT seja, teórica e empiricamente, mais adequado para se analisar o viés da cobertura política da imprensa, tendo em vista os seus efeitos junto aos eleitores. Mas uma análise que buscasse entender como o viés de cada eleição se constituiu precisaria de uma leitura mais profunda do material jornalístico.…”

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O viés da cobertura política da imprensa nas eleições presidenciais brasileiras de 2002, 2006 e 2010

Mundim

2018

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Polít.

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Resumo O artigo analisa o viés da cobertura política da imprensa nas eleições presidenciais de 2002, 2006 e 2010, a partir da análise de conteúdo dos jornais Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo e O Globo. Como primeira hipótese, avalia se o espaço concedido aos candidatos nos jornais estaria em desacordo com sua importância política ou sua posição na disputa eleitoral. Mas como esses critérios não garantem, necessariamente, um equilíbrio na cobertura, a segunda hipótese avalia se existe diferença significativa na cobertura realizada pelos jornais, a partir de um índice de viés de cobertura anti-PT. Os testes estatísticos utilizados foram causalidade de Granger, ANOVA e HSD de Tukey. Embora exista viés na cobertura da imprensa, principalmente no conteúdo opinativo, as análises rejeitaram a existência de um padrão claro e sistemático de preferência por um determinado partido ou candidato nas páginas dos jornais.

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“…Ownership lies at the heart of corporate governance processes, imparting control over the steering of a media company's activities (Ohlsson, 2012;Picard, 2005). Because of differences in institutional and external pressures from financial markets or local communities, Dunaway (2008) shows that privately owned media companies are managed differently from publicly owned media companies. Such pressures by the owners can also impact the information quality of the produced news (Dunaway, 2011) and the control of news content (Zhang, 2010).…”

Section: Media Ownershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For decades, the Swedish newspaper market was very strong, with 85% daily readership among the adult population (Nordicom, 2017). However, similar to many other nations, the printed press has declined steadily since its peak in the early 1990s: Decreasing circulation figures, decreasing advertising sales, and increasing competition from national broadcasting companies and global online giants caused a 25% drop in total newspaper industry revenues between 2008(MRTV, 2015.…”

Section: The Swedish Newspaper Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Upholding the 4th estate—exploring the corporate governance of the media ownership form of business foundations

Achtenhagen

Melesko

Ots

2018

International Journal on Media Management

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Whereas media ownership issues have interested scholars for decades, research has largely ignored the implications of specific ownership forms on the corporate governance of media companies, that is, how these companies are directed and controlled. This article attempts to address this gap by exploring the corporate governance of the ownership form of business foundations-a type of ownership that is increasing in different countries around the world. We analyze the corporate governance of three business foundations in the Swedish newspaper sector that together hold 26% of the market and outperform their industry peers. The control function, which is at the heart of corporate governance, is typically performed by companies' owners. However, foundations do not have a physical person as owner; thus, this control function is replaced by the foundation's charter, which stipulates the aim of the foundation's business activities. When steered by professional top management, the charter's long-term orientation facilitates the careful implementation of strategic directions without short-term performance pressures. We conclude the article by outlining several advantages and disadvantages of this ownership form for the media industry.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Markets, Ownership, and the Quality of Campaign News Coverage

Cited by 128 publications

References 19 publications

What Predicts the Game Frame? Media Ownership, Electoral Context, and Campaign News

What Predicts the Game Frame? Media Ownership, Electoral Context, and Campaign News

O viés da cobertura política da imprensa nas eleições presidenciais brasileiras de 2002, 2006 e 2010

Upholding the 4th estate—exploring the corporate governance of the media ownership form of business foundations

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