1st Edition

Journalism Between the State and the Market

By Helle Sjøvaag Copyright 2019
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

Using the Nordic media model as an empirical backdrop, Journalism Between the State and the Market defines and analyzes journalism’s fundamental problem: its shifting location between the state and the market. This book examines how this distance is decreasing as journalism steps closer to both the market (algorithmically monetizing audiences) and the state (lobbying governments for... Read more

Chapter 1 Journalism’s problem

Chapter 2 Between the state and the market

Chapter 3 The Scandinavian media system

Chapter 4 Too close to the state

Chapter 5 Too close to the market

Chapter 6 Conclusions

Biography

Helle Sjøvaag is Professor of Journalism at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her research areas include digital journalism, media diversity and media systems and regulation. Sjøvaag has published extensively in international journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly; Media, Culture & Society; Journalism Studies; Convergence; and Journal of Media Business Studies. Sjøvaag’s most recent book is the co-edited anthology Journalism Re-examined: Digital Challenges and Professional Reorientations: Lessons from Northern Europe.