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October 4, 2017 •
Aktuelt, Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Maurice Chittenden
THE only red tops plying their trade in Fleet Street these days are the open-deck tour buses that drive along it, as part of the booming London tourism industry. “Of course, the reporters and printers have long gone,” explain...
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August 13, 2013 •
Journalistiske prosjekt, Mediepolitikk •
by Michał Kuś, Stephan Russ-Mohl, Adam Szynol
Media barons – media owners who use their newsrooms to exercise political pressure and power – have become more influential in many Central and Eastern European countries. The most recent mega deals in the U.S. and in Germany...
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November 19, 2012 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
How have the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal covered Murdoch’s News of the World hacking scandal?Alessia Borrè of the University of Lugano has dedicated her bachelor thesis to this question. Making a direct comparison is...
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November 6, 2012 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Will Rupert Murdoch withdraw from the United Kingdom and instead aggrandize his media empire in the U.S.? Ken Doctor, an American media economist and columnist for the Nieman Lab at Harvard University has speculated about such a move. In...
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February 24, 2012 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
What else must happen before one of the world’s most powerful media moguls resigns? Rupert Murdoch does not hold a public office like Christian Wulff, the former German president, or Philipp Hildebrand, now ex-president of the Swiss...
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October 3, 2011 •
Medieøkonomi •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
You certainly know Rupert Murdoch, but have you heard of Arthur J. Sulzberger? Perhaps not, as his name is only well known among media industry insiders. Like many other newspaper publishers, he makes little effort to seek the public...
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August 31, 2011 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Philip Di Salvo
After twenty years spent in exile with his family in Australia, Saad Mohseni, son of an Afghan diplomat, returned to Afghanistan as the Taliban regime collapsed in 2002. He is now defined by the international media as “The Murdoch...
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August 4, 2011 •
Medieøkonomi •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
It was like watching the movie from the day before yesterday. Suddenly, all the three of them were back: Leo Kirch, Silvio Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch, the tycoons who influentially roughed up the media business in Europe during the 80s...
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October 20, 2010 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Marcello Foa
Big Brother is about to step his way into media. For once, it isn’t Berlusconi. In fact, according to English papers, the concentration of TV channels belonging to Berlusconi is marginal compared to what is about to occur in Great...
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