Newspapers and public grants: A matter of quality

Battaggion, Maria Rosa; Vaglio, Alessandro

doi:10.1111/sjpe.12152

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“…Ukraine is an equal member of the world community. It actively participates in the creation, formation and development of the information society (Battaggion & Vaglio, 2018).…”

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Features of Increasing the Ukrainian Media’s Competitiveness Through Applying Various Pr Campaigns in the Conditions of Military Operations

Shalman,

Bilan,

Bashuk

et al. 2023

J. of Law and Sust. Develop.

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Purpose: The purpose of the research is to determine the standpoint of the Ukrainian media companies’ chief executives and scientists conducting studies in the direction of analyzing the Ukrainian media regarding the features of using various PR campaigns to increase the media market entities’ competitiveness under conditions of war. Theoretical framework: Mass media and communication occupy the leading place in these processes as a link connecting the global information world with its consumers and involving them in exchanging information. Design/methodology/approach: The analytical and bibliographic method was used during the research to study the scientific literature on applying various PR campaigns. Analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction was applied to process scientific information. A questionnaire survey and theoretical methods (systemic-structural, comparative, logical-linguistic, abstraction, idealization) were used to practically clarify certain aspects of multimedia tools in the field of visual communications and in design education in the conditions of military operations. Findings: The analysis of the scientific literature on the issue under study and the questionnaire results showed that the concept of developing a strategy to increase the competitiveness of the media sector is based on the theory of strategic management. Research, Practical & Social implications: It involves taking into account several factors when using various PR campaigns, the effective consideration of which is an important prerequisite for the competitiveness of media market entities. Originality/value: The necessity for further investigations is related to increasing mass media’s competitiveness in the context of the crisis and challenges related to the Internet integration into everyday life.

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“…Ukraine is an equal member of the world community. It actively participates in the creation, formation and development of the information society (Battaggion & Vaglio, 2018).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Features of Increasing the Ukrainian Media’s Competitiveness Through Applying Various Pr Campaigns in the Conditions of Military Operations

Shalman,

Bilan,

Bashuk

et al. 2023

J. of Law and Sust. Develop.

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“…Although press subsidies have been in use by governments for centuries, their effects are unclear, and it has been difficult to isolate causal relationships between subsidies and specific outcomes in the industry or among audiences. Most of the evidence is therefore merely indicative or in other ways ambiguous, and econometric models that have attempted to predict subsidy effects (Battaggion & Vaglio, 2017;Kind & Møen, 2014;Leroch & Wellbrock, 2011) still lack empirical validation. For instance, whereas the acclaimed negative effects of raised tax rates on newspaper sales often get alarmistic proportions in the political debate, the actual observed evidence of the effects is both scarce and uncertain (Kind & Møen, 2014).…”

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Press Subsidies

Ots¹,

Picard²

2018

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication

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Due to its function as a watchdog or fourth estate in democratic societies and a variety of commercial challenges, policy-makers have undertaken initiatives to support the production and distribution of news. Press subsidies are one such policy initiative that particularly aims to provide support to private news producers. Paid as direct cash handouts or indirect reduced taxes and fees, they exist in some form in almost every country in the world. Subsidies are not uncontroversial, their effectiveness is unclear, and their magnitude, designs, and areas of application, differ across nations and their unique economic, cultural, and political contexts. After periods of declining political and public interest in media subsidies, the recent economic crisis of journalism, and the rising influence of various forms of click-bait, fake, native, or biased news on social media platforms, has brought state support of original journalism back on the agenda.

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“…In theory, press subsidies may help to remedy market failure related to journalistic content, to foster knowledge externalities, and to increase diversity and quality of news (e.g., Kind & Møen, 2015). However, if poorly implemented, press subsidies promote inefficient behavior (Picard, 2003) and lead to lower journalistic quality (Battaggion & Vaglio, 2018; Leroch & Wellbrock, 2011). Press subsidies in Sweden have the main goal to maintain local opinion diversity by helping unprofitable newspapers to survive (Ots, 2009).…”

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Ownership and media slant: Evidence from Swedish newspapers

Garz

Rickardsson

2022

Kyklos

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This study investigates the role of media owners for the political bias of newspapers in Sweden, using an original dataset on outlets, consumer preferences, and ownership between January 2014 and April 2019. We construct an index of slant based on similarities in the language between newspapers and speeches given by members of parliament.Our results indicate that newspapers held by the same owner tend to offer the same mix of slant, rather than aligning their bias with consumer preferences in their area of circulation.Owners are even less inclined to differentiate the slant across outlets before elections, when the political returns to persuasion are high. We find no evidence that owners impose a one-size-fits-all slant because product differentiation is too costly. In addition, we find suggestive evidence of owner-independent bias induced by the writers of opinion articles. The Swedish context illustrates that supply-driven slant cannot be ruled out in market-based media systems if the ties between media and politics are strong. | INTRODUCTIONPolitical media slant 1 can be driven by the demand side and the supply side of the news market. According to demand-side explanations, consumers often have a preference for news that confirms their existing beliefs. 1 We define political media slant as bias in news coverage that favors a certain ideology or political party. This bias may occur in the form of distortion or filtering, where the former implies that outlets frame the same fact in different ways, whereas the latter refers to the selection of facts and topics covered (Gentzkow et al., 2015).

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Newspapers and public grants: A matter of quality

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Features of Increasing the Ukrainian Media’s Competitiveness Through Applying Various Pr Campaigns in the Conditions of Military Operations

Features of Increasing the Ukrainian Media’s Competitiveness Through Applying Various Pr Campaigns in the Conditions of Military Operations

Press Subsidies

Ownership and media slant: Evidence from Swedish newspapers

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