[Mediaresearchhub-News] Grantee Profile: Media Concentration = Less Local TV News Finds "Necessary Knowledge" Research Project

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Grantee Profile: Media Concentration = Less Local TV News Finds
"Necessary Knowledge" Research Project


Federal policymakers weighing the decision to allow media companies to
own multiple TV stations now have new evidence to contend with.  Dr.
Danilo Yanich of the University of Delaware's Local TV News Media
Project analyzed two years of televised newscasts from five major media
markets -- - New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Albuquerque --
and found that media concentration does correlate with less local news
coverage.

 

Yanich and his research team specifically looked at "duopoly" stations,
as well as whether they were owned and operated by broadcast networks,
along with other ownership characteristics. These questions are of
particular concern to public interest groups like the Consumer
Federation of America, whose 300 member organizations across the country
have been raising the concern about the decline in the quality and
amount of local news coverage and they want to know why and what can be
done about it.

 

Click here
<http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/grantee-profile-media-concentrati
on-less-local-tv-news-finds-necessary-knowledge-research-project> for
the complete profile, and download
<http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/ownership-matters-content-localism-own
ership-on-local-television-news/resource_view> the Yanich's paper
describing his research here
<http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/ownership-matters-content-localism-own
ership-on-local-television-news/resource_view> .

 

The research was partially funded by a small grant from the Social
Science Research Council, a nonpartisan institution that has supported
scholarly research on key public issues for over 80 years. Dr. Yanich's
research was one of the first projects under a new program, Necessary
Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere. Necessary Knowledge  is an
innovative funding initiative designed to pair academic researchers with
non-profit organizations to work together on a research project related
to some aspect of media policy or media change. An independent committee
of scholars and public interest leaders awards grants four times per
year.

 

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