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Media Ownership in Africa in the Digital Age: Challenges, Continuity and Change
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiv, 295 pp.
"Who owns the media and communications in Africa today and with what implications? The book elegantly answers this urgent question by unpacking multiple dimensions of media ownership through rare and authoritative perspectives, including both historical and contemporary digital developments. It trac
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Media Development and Sustainability in West Africa: A Study on Media Audience Mapping and Targeting Techniques, Capacity Building Models & Ownership Patterns in West Africa
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Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) (2020), ii, 70 pp.
"Media Audience Mapping & Targeting Techniques in West Africa: 1. Audience measurement and ratings culture: The culture of audience measurement and ratings is still very rudimentary in much of West Africa. Within the current media milieu, where new technologies are yielding new forms of content and
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Media Ownership Monitor Albania
Reporters Without Borders; Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) (2018), 871 pp.
"The boundaries between media, politics and business have always been blurry in Albania. However, because of the small size and the high number of outlets the market was perceived by some local observers as vibrant and plural. However, a joint research project between Reporters Without Borders and t
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Media Ownership Monitor Mexico
Reporters Without Borders; Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (Cencos) (2018), 1547 pp.
"Mexico’s booming media industry is controlled by some of the richest businessmen on earth. While the sector grows at a rate three times that of the overall economy, an alarming concentration of media ownership goes hand in hand with the well-known lack of safety for Mexico’s journalists, many o
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Media Ownership Monitor Tanzania
Reporters Without Borders; Media Council of Tanzania (2018), 739 pp.
"Only a few media companies have a predominant market position and thus a potentially high influence on public opinion in Tanzania. Whereas the regulatory framework should in theory safeguard media pluralism and prevent media concentration, it shows considerable gaps in practice. Moreover, the legal
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Media Ownership Monitor Brazil
Reporters Without Borders; Intervozes (2017), 925 pp.
"Power in Brazil means family business, both traditionally and to this very day. Dynasties of landowners known as “Colonels” extend their territorial claims to the airwaves, combining economic and political interests with tight control of public opinion. Neither digital technology and the rise o
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Media Ownership Monitor Ghana
Reporters Without Borders; Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2017), 567 pp.
"The Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) reveals a high level of audience concentration in various media sectors. An almost maximum concentration was found among the printed press, where the top four media companies (Graphic Communications Group Limited, New Times Corporation, Western Publications Limited
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Media Ownership Monitor Morocco
Reporters Without Borders; Le Desk (2017), 618 pp.
"Nine of the 36 media companies involved in Morocco’s most influential media are directly linked to the state, the government or the royal family. Four of them – SOREAD, SNRT, EcoMedias and Horizon Press – are among the most important media companies in terms of turnover and show the potential
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The Transparency of Media Ownership in the European Union and Neighbouring States
Access Info Europe; Open Society Program on Independent Journalism (2014), 28 pp.
"Despite the importance of media ownership transparency for both the individual and the state, only two of the surveyed countries—Italy and Romania—address media transparency directly in their constitutions but in both cases the focus is on transparency of fi nancial sources not ownership. In th
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"This report finds that while media ownership is sometimes obvious, media owners often use their spouse, parents or trusted friends to register their media outlets, making it difficult to obtain clear data on media ownership. For instance, the researcher notes that the connection of presidential can
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Sistema central de mídia: Proposta de um modelo sobre os conglomerados de comunicação no Brasil
Porto Alegre: Universidade Federal do Río Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomía e comunicação (2009), 142 pp.
"Os conglomerados de comunicação social no Brasil são o retrato acabado de um sistema territorialmente capilarizado e institucionalmente centralizado. A análise do panorama dos meios de comunicação no Brasil, baseada na plataforma digital do Projeto Donos da Mídia, revelou que a influência d
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