Newspaper Ownership, Democracy and News Diversity

A Quantitative Content Homogeneity Study

Bibliographic Data

ID12908877
AuthorsJonathan Hendrickx (0000-0003-2802-2802, University of Vienna, corresponding author), Annelien Van Remoortere (0000-0003-1610-2661, Wageningen University & Research)
Year2023
Volume18
Issue10
Pages2531-2546
Publication date2023-01-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2022.2159500
OpenAlexW4317371824
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited39

Scholarship is recognising that news diversity is jeopardised by heightened media ownership consolidation and a lack of appropriate regulatory frameworks. Using an automated quantitative content analysis of 658,493 articles published between 2018 and 2021 by two newspapers of the same recently emerged Belgian corporation that had to comply with stipulations to safeguard diversity for five years, we find that while overall content has actually not grown more homogenous, tabloid articles risk crowding out broadsheet news. We ultimately position and contextualise our study and its findings within news diversity and democratic theory and offer suggestions for additional research

Advertising · Business · Consolidation (business · Content analysis · Corporation · Democracy · Diversity (politics · Media studies · News media · News values · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Accounting

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