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How Media Ownership Matters with Rodney Benson

The Media, Inequality & Change Center was joined by NYU professor Rodney Benson to discuss his book How Media Ownership Matters. In his newest publication, How Media Ownership Matters, Rodney Benson offers a new theoretical understanding of media ownership that goes beyond the usual focus on concentration and moguls. Through a comparative analysis of more than 50 news outlets in the US, Sweden, and France, the book shows how four ownership forms—market, private, civil society, and public—each shape the news in civically consequential ways. Interacting with funding models and target audiences, these forms affect the degree to which coverage is oriented toward public service, partisanship, or the promotion of owners’ economic interests.