Overview
- Explains how complex the question of independence is today
- Explores the different ways news media has faced the challenges of dependence and independence
- Brings recent Francophone research on news media to the English-speaking reader
Part of the book series: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series (GTMCR)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Political Economy of the Media in the Age of Crowdfunding
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Journalism and the Public Sphere
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Before and After the Revolution: Media in the MENA Region
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About this book
This book explores the different ways Francophone research on news media has faced the challenges of dependence and independence from three complementary perspectives. The first is economics - how can sustainable business models be developed and to what extent can crowdfunding help to maintain the financial and editorial independence of newsrooms? Secondly, in a time where the role of journalism in the public sphere is more questioned than ever, the authors evaluate to what extent news media can embody the needs of their readers. Thirdly, the authors consider the historical and political context of publication in the light of the ‘Arab Spring’. This book deals with major, contemporary evolutions of news media, bringing together research that considers the media in France, Canada, and the Arab region (notably Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt). Using numerous case studies, this book helps to define how complex the question of independence is today.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Loïc Ballarini is Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Lorraine, France. Ballarini is also a former journalist and has co-edited three French language books. His research focuses on the place and the role of journalism in the public spheres.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Independence of the News Media
Book Subtitle: Francophone Research on Media, Economics and Politics
Editors: Loïc Ballarini
Series Title: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34054-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34053-7Published: 17 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34056-8Published: 17 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34054-4Published: 16 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5978
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5986
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Media Policy, European Culture