Anya Schiffrin
Media Capture
How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News
Columbia UP, 2021
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Independent journalism has waned worldwide as widespread “media capture” skews the news.
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Columbia University media expert Anya Schiffrin identifies tax-based solutions and philanthropic donations as two ways to revive independent journalism, which has waned worldwide as widespread “media capture” – government and corporate influence over the media – skews the news. The new media’s vulnerability to capture-and-control ownership has increased because journalism’s commercial business model in many ways no longer functions. Financial support from Google, Facebook and other tech titans is an unlikely fix; these giants do not produce content, they capture companies that do.
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About the Author
Anya Schiffrin, director of the technology, media and communications specialization in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, is the editor of African Muckraking: 75 Years of African Investigative Journalism and Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World.
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