Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News
New York: Columbia University Press (2021), vii, 315 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-0-231-18883-8 (pbk); 978-0-231-54802-1 (ebook)
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"This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture - how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors including Emily Bell, Felix Salmon, Joshua Marshall, Joel Simon, and Nikki Usher analyze diverse cases of media capture worldwide, many drawn from firsthand experience. They examine the role played by new media companies and funders, showing how the confluence of the growth of big tech and falling revenues for legacy media has led to new forms of control. Contributions also shed light on how the rise of right-wing populists has catalyzed the crisis of global media. They also chart a way forward, exploring the growing need for a policy response and sustainable models for public-interest investigative journalism." (Publisher description)
I. OVERVIEW
Introduction / Anya Schiffrin, 3
1 How Silicon Valley Copied Wall Street’s Media Capture Playbook / Rana Foroohar, 23
2 From Media Capture to Platform Capture / Nikki Usher, 30
3 Media Capture and the Crisis in Local Journalism [USA] / Philip M. Napoli, 46
4 Nobody Home / Noam Cohen, 67
II. EXAMPLES OF PROBLEMS
5 A Serf on Google’s Farm / Josh Marshall, 83
6 The Rise and Fall of Blogging in the 2000s [USA] / Felix Salmon, 92
7 Digital Payola: Policing the Open Contributor Network [Inc., USA] / James Ledbetter, 104
8 Media Capture and the Corporate Education-Reform Philanthropies [USA] / Andrea Gabor, 117
9 Using Old Media to Capture New in Turkey / Andrew Finkel, 141
10 A Loud Silence [India] / Raju Narisetti, 160
11 The Capture of Britain’s Feral Beast / Mary Fitzgerald, James Cusick, and Peter Geoghegan, 188
III. SOLUTIONS
12 A Global Strategy for Combating Media Capture [international scope] / Mark M. Nelson, 213
13 The Hamster Wheel, Triumphant: Commercial Models for Journalism Are Not Working; Let’s Try Something Else [USA, Hungary] / Dean Starkman and Ryan Chittum, 232
14 Building Trust (and a Trust) [on funding international investigative journalism] / Andrew Sullivan, 259
15 Defending Vanguard Journalists [Mexico] / Joel Simon, 277
16 Do Technology Companies Care About Journalism? / Emily Bell, 291
Introduction / Anya Schiffrin, 3
1 How Silicon Valley Copied Wall Street’s Media Capture Playbook / Rana Foroohar, 23
2 From Media Capture to Platform Capture / Nikki Usher, 30
3 Media Capture and the Crisis in Local Journalism [USA] / Philip M. Napoli, 46
4 Nobody Home / Noam Cohen, 67
II. EXAMPLES OF PROBLEMS
5 A Serf on Google’s Farm / Josh Marshall, 83
6 The Rise and Fall of Blogging in the 2000s [USA] / Felix Salmon, 92
7 Digital Payola: Policing the Open Contributor Network [Inc., USA] / James Ledbetter, 104
8 Media Capture and the Corporate Education-Reform Philanthropies [USA] / Andrea Gabor, 117
9 Using Old Media to Capture New in Turkey / Andrew Finkel, 141
10 A Loud Silence [India] / Raju Narisetti, 160
11 The Capture of Britain’s Feral Beast / Mary Fitzgerald, James Cusick, and Peter Geoghegan, 188
III. SOLUTIONS
12 A Global Strategy for Combating Media Capture [international scope] / Mark M. Nelson, 213
13 The Hamster Wheel, Triumphant: Commercial Models for Journalism Are Not Working; Let’s Try Something Else [USA, Hungary] / Dean Starkman and Ryan Chittum, 232
14 Building Trust (and a Trust) [on funding international investigative journalism] / Andrew Sullivan, 259
15 Defending Vanguard Journalists [Mexico] / Joel Simon, 277
16 Do Technology Companies Care About Journalism? / Emily Bell, 291
