scholarly journals Distance (Media policy/ Meta journalism)

10.34778/2ze ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Pedrazzi
Keyword(s):  
Time Frame ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
General Observation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Telecommunications Act Of 1996 ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Telecommunications Act ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Organizations

The variable “distance” reflects the competitive relationships that exist between media organizations and outlets in terms of journalistic, economic and media policy interests, which can lead to reporting differences in media self-coverage (Pointner, 2010). This is due to the special situation that in the case of media self-coverage, both the reporting unit and the covered subject originate from the media sector. Several studies have shown that media organizations strategically use self-coverage to pursue their own interests, to legitimize their actions or to differentiate themselves from their competitors (Beck, 2001; Gilens & Hertzman, 2000; Hackett & Uzelman, 2003; Kemner, Scherer, & Weinacht, 2008; Lichtenstein, 2011; Löblich, 2011; Maier & Dogruel, 2016; Müller & Donsbach, 2006; Pointner, 2010; Snider & Page, 1997; Uzelman, Hackett, & Stewart, 2005; Weiß, 1986).   Field of application/Theoretical foundation The variable serves as an indicator of potential conflicts of roles, interests and objectives at organizational level, which can lead to unbalanced or biased reporting.   Example study Pointner (2010)   Information on Pointner, 2010 Research interest: The study examines whether and how economic interests of media companies are reflected in the reporting on media companies. Object of analysis: A sample (one artificial day per month, all articles covering media companies) was drawn from four national German daily newspapers. Time frame of analysis: January 1, 1992 to December 31, 2006   Information about variable Level of analysis: article Coding logic: The relationship between the reporting unit and the covered subject is recorded on two levels. First, a distinction is made with regard to the media sector, i.e. whether the reporting concerns a subject originating from the same sector (intramedial, e.g. print observes print) or from a different sector (intermedial, e.g. print observes broadcasting). Within the intramedial level, a further distinction is made with regard to the organizational affiliation: Codes indicate whether the reporting relates to the own company (direct self-observation), affiliated companies of the own company (indirect self-observation), one or more direct competitors operating within the same media sector in the same media submarket (direct competitor observation), affiliated companies of competitors (indirect competitor observation) or media companies of other genres within the own media sector (general observation) (Pointner, 2010). For the implementation, it is recommended to first code the outlet in which a contribution appears, as well as separately code the outlet and the media sector that is the main subject of the coverage. Based on this, the assignment can be made with the help of an affiliation list of the outlets and affiliated companies of the publishing houses, media companies or media sectors investigated. However, it should be mentioned that in connection with the horizontal diversification of media companies into other media sectors and increasing convergence, the differentiation into intramedial and intermedial as well as direct and indirect is becoming increasingly difficult.   Values: intramedial direct self-observation intramedial indirect self-observation intramedial direct competitor observation intramedial indirect competitor observation intramedial general observation intermedial   Intercoder reliability: Holsti’s coefficient of .94 across categories (6 coders), not specified for individual category Codebook not available   References Beck, K. (2001). Medienberichterstattung über Medienkonzentration. Publizistik, 46(4), 403-424. doi: 10.1007/s11616-001-0121-3 Gilens, M., & Hertzman, C. (2000). Corporate Ownership and News Bias: Newspaper Coverage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. The Journal of Politics, 62(2), 369-386. doi: 10.1111/0022-3816.00017 Hackett, R. A., & Uzelman, S. (2003). Tracing Corporate Influences on Press Content: a summary of recent NewsWatch Canada Research. Journalism Studies, 4(3), 331-346. doi: 10.1080/14616700306486 Kemner, B., Scherer, H., & Weinacht, S. (2008). Unter der Tarnkappe. Publizistik, 53(1), 65-84. doi: 10.1007/s11616-008-0006-9 Lichtenstein, D. (2011). Kommerzialisierung des Medienjournalismus? Eine empirische Untersuchung zum „Fall Berliner Zeitung“. M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 59(2), 216-234. doi: 10.5771/1615-634x-2011-2-216 Löblich, M. (2011). Frames in der medienpolitischen Öffentlichkeit. Publizistik, 56(4), 423-439. doi: 10.1007/s11616-011-0129-2 Maier, D., & Dogruel, L. (2016). Akteursbeziehungen in der Zeitungsberichterstattung über die Online-Aktivitäten des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks. Publizistik, 61(2), 145-166. doi: 10.1007/s11616-016-0258-8 Müller, D., & Donsbach, W. (2006). Unabhängigkeit von wirtschaftlichen Interessen als Qualitätsindikator im Journalismus. In S. Weischenberg, W. Loosen, & M. Beuthner (Eds.), Medien-Qualitäten: Öffentliche Kommunikation zwischen ökonomischem Kalkül und Sozialverantwortung (pp. 129-147). Konstanz: UVK. Pointner, N. (2010). In den Fängen der Ökonomie? Ein kritischer Blick auf die Berichterstattung über Medienunternehmen in der deutschen Tagespresse. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. Snider, J. H., & Page, B. I. (1997). Does Media Ownership Affect Media Stands? The Case of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Institute for Policy Resarch at Northwestern University (IPR working papers 97-12). Uzelman, S., Hackett, R. A., & Stewart, J. (2005). Covering Democracy's Forum: Canadian Press Treatment of Public and Private Broadcasting. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 22(2), 156-169. doi: 10.1080/07393180500072053 Weiß, H.-J. (1986). Rundfunkinteressen und Pressejournalismus. Abschließende Analysen und Anmerkungen zu zwei inhaltsanalytischen Zeitungsstudien. Media Perspektiven, 2(86), 53-73.

Ethical Challenges for User-Generated Content Publishing

2012 ◽  
pp. 302-315
Author(s):  
Ceren Sözeri
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Organizations

Mainstream online media is gradually encouraging user contributions to boost brand loyalty and to attract new users; however, former “passive” audience members who become users are not able to become true participants in the process of online content production. The adoption of user-generated content in media content results in new legal and ethical challenges within online media organizations. To deal with these challenges, media companies have restricted users through adhesion contracts and editorial strictures unlike anything encountered in the users’ past media consumption experiences. However, these contractual precautions are targeted to protect the media organizations’ editorial purposes or reputations rather than to engage ethical issues that can also ensure them credibility. It is expected that some public service media strive to play a vital role in deliberative culture; on the other hand, some commercial global media have noticed the importance of worthwhile user-generated content even though all of them are far from “read-write” media providers due to the lack of an established guiding ethos for publishing user-generated content.

Ethical Challenges for User-Generated Content Publishing

2014 ◽  
pp. 1291-1304
Author(s):  
Ceren Sözeri
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Organizations

Mainstream online media is gradually encouraging user contributions to boost brand loyalty and to attract new users; however, former “passive” audience members who become users are not able to become true participants in the process of online content production. The adoption of user-generated content in media content results in new legal and ethical challenges within online media organizations. To deal with these challenges, media companies have restricted users through adhesion contracts and editorial strictures unlike anything encountered in the users' past media consumption experiences. However, these contractual precautions are targeted to protect the media organizations' editorial purposes or reputations rather than to engage ethical issues that can also ensure them credibility. It is expected that some public service media strive to play a vital role in deliberative culture; on the other hand, some commercial global media have noticed the importance of worthwhile user-generated content even though all of them are far from “read-write” media providers due to the lack of an established guiding ethos for publishing user-generated content.

scholarly journals The influence of the civil society organizations on the financial processes in the economy of Ukraine (example of media organizations)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Dropa ◽  
Ulyana Makarenko
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Bank Loans ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Organizations ◽  
The Impact

The article examines the impact of the main parameters of media organizations on the degree of confidence in the national financial system, the level of the shadow economy and tax culture. The relationship between the volume of media products and interest rates on bank loans in the national currency is described. The interdependence of the results of activity of media organizations and average interest rates on deposits of individuals and the weighted average yield of domestic government bonds of Ukraine is analyzed. Correlation analysis revealed a close direct relationship between the volume of products sold by media companies adjusted for inflation and the number of members of credit unions of Ukraine, which confirms the dependence of public confidence on the media, namely the number of employees in this area or the volume of media products. The key role of media enterprises in the formation of the tax culture of the population of the country is proved on the basis of the established direct dependence between the volume of products sold by media enterprises and tax revenues to the consolidated budget of Ukraine. This gives grounds to recommend public authorities to involve media companies in the implementation of domestic tax policy and help improve their financial support.

scholarly journals The Winding Road on the Media Landscape

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Andres Jõesaar
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Large Range ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Communist Country ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Media System ◽  
Media Services ◽  
The Media

This article aims to explore the ways in which Estonian broadcasting (with a focus on television) tackled the challenges of transforming from a monopolistic party propaganda machine into a modern dual media system in which public service broadcasting and newly created private enterprises coexist; and how this process evolved in a small post-communist country. This article argues that the Estonian government’s ‘idealisation’ of market forces supported by the European Union media policy, which is driven by common market ideology, did not take into account the market’s limitations and media companies’ actual capability to provide a large range of media services. The research methodology is based on an analysis of EU media policy documents, Estonian media legislation, the protocols of the Cultural Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Estonia, protocols of the broadcasters’ licensing committee at the Ministry of Culture and the broadcasters’ annual reports from the period 1992 - 2015. The article analyses the key trends in Estonian media development and policymaking during the last 25 years.

Vampire squids, ‘the broken internet’ and platform regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwayne Winseck
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Undue Influence ◽  
Separation Line ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Internet Regulation ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Structural Separation

Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix have come under intense criticism for acquiring undue influence on the media, economy, society and democracy. Google and Facebook’s business models, especially, are cast as a form of ‘vampire economics’ responsible for the crisis of journalism and upending the media industries. Many media scholars argue that since the platforms increasingly function like media companies, media policy should be our North Star with respect to what new approaches to internet regulation should look like. This article agrees that a forceful response to the platforms is overdue but criticizes the case against them for too often resting on cherry-picked evidence and an exaggerated sense of their clout, while references to media policy obscure a better approach that draws on four principles from telecoms regulation to guide a new generation of internet regulation: structural separation, line of business restrictions (i.e., firewalls), public obligations and public alternatives.

FORMATION OF CORPORATE CULTURE OF MEDIA ENTERPRISES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Oleshko ◽  
◽  
Olena Basarab ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Corporate Communications ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Media

The article identifies specific features and suggests areas for improving the corporate culture of media enterprises. Dynamic changes in the economy due to digitalization require a revision of existing organizational forms and methods of management and the formation of a qualitatively new corporate culture at all hierarchical levels. The difficulty of solving this problem is the need to eliminate the negative elements in the Ukrainian corporate culture while adapting the development strategies of organizations to new economic conditions. The specifics of the formation of corporate culture of the media company is its special role, which is to implement the information product in order to obtain economic benefits and meet the social and communication needs of different segments of society. The article proposes changes in the organizational structure of media companies by creating a department for internal corporate communications in order to form a corporate culture that can increase the competitiveness of the company and form its positive image in the media space. This will form a highquality information support for internal communication of the enterprise, increase employee motivation and effectiveness of control over their work. The formation of a qualitatively new corporate culture of media enterprises also involves the transformation of the management system taking into account the need to focus on the use of creative work, increasing the level of knowledge, digital competencies, skills and professionalism, observance of system values of society. Ultimately, the formation of an effective corporate culture will have a positive impact on the process of creating quality information products

The Strategies of Television Broadcast During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study on Indonesian Television

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-256
Author(s):  
Gammara Lenggo Geni ◽  
◽  
Rizki Briandana ◽  
Farid Hamid Umarella ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategy ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Television Station ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Media

This study aims to analyse the media management strategy of Indonesian television stations during the Covid-19 pandemic. In March 2020, an outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia affected the operations of broadcasting offices, which forced people to work from home. This situation affects the operations, strategy, and content of the television industry. The object of research is Kompas TV, one of the largest media companies in Indonesia, which was the first to implement a digital concept for its customers. The concepts of planning, organising, actuating, and controlling are used to analyse the strategies media utilised. The methodology employed for the current research takes the form of a case study by adopting the qualitative approach through an in-depth interview and observation. The results showed that Kompas TV, through its digital platform in the form of websites, YouTube channels, and social media, achieved an increase in the number of viewers, users, and engagement during the pandemic. In particular, the digital aspect does not only appear in communication, but also in the implementation of the Kompas TV strategy. The results of the study also revealed that strategies carried out on Kompas TV can be used as a model for other television in Indonesia to emulate, in order to sustain its business in times of crisis. Keywords: Strategy, broadcast management, Indonesia television station, pandemic Covid-19, qualitative research.

Political Will and Media Law: A Poland Case Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 088832542110495
Author(s):  
Damian Guzek ◽  
Agnieszka Grzesiok-Horosz
Keyword(s):  
Case Analysis ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Media Law ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Legal Pressure

A significant element of Central and Eastern Europe’s democracies backsliding process turns out to be changes in the media law. These changes are now leading to a decline in media freedom. The article attempts to understand this phenomenon by analyzing the process of legal and policy changes in Poland. In the course of the analysis, the reader’s attention is drawn to three elements that form the mainline of events related to the weakening of media freedom. These are, in turn, (a) the takeover of public media by influencing the staffing of media companies, (b) introducing a new, completely politicized body into the legal order, which duplicates the already existing and partially politicized media authority, and (c) exerting economic and legal pressure on the media independent of the authorities, so that they can be taken over by state-owned companies or businessmen favoring the authorities. As a whole, this decline in media freedom can be viewed as a strategy that antagonizes society.

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