#mediapolicy

Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2025-12-27

Eroding the market’s hidden hand: toward a Post-Capitalist
media system

Victor Pickard

(Communication, Culture and Critique, 2025, 18, 282–284)

"Media-related problems facing democratic societies around the world today often stem from various kinds of market failures and structural limitations endemic to all capitalist media systems. Yet, the capitalist logics at the root of these problems largely escape critical analysis in communication research. Working against such “capitalist media realism,” this article begins to interrogate these logics and provides a preliminary framework for gradually eroding them in favor of a less capitalist and more democratic media system."

victorpickard.com/wp-content/u

#PoliticalEconomy #Media #Journalism #Democracy #MediaPolicy #PostCapitalism

2025-12-05

Quoted in a new Fix article on how publishers can respond to AI bots scraping journalistic content.

I argue that big outlets can negotiate deals, but smaller publishers are being left behind — and short-term tools like Offerwall or pay-per-crawl don’t solve the deeper structural issues.

Protecting journalism in the AI era requires fairness, accountability and stronger direct ties with readers.

Link: thefix.media/2025/12/04/how-pu

#AI #Journalism #MediaPolicy #NewsIndustry

Frank Huysmansfrhuy@ieji.de
2025-10-27

'Safeguarding media freedom in the age of big tech platforms and AI': Policy manual by the Representative on Freedom of the Media |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

informationdemocracy.org/publi

#media #press #concentration #policy #mediapolicy #pressfreedom #bigtech #online #misinformation #freedom #elections

2025-10-16

Pentagon journalists exit en masse over new reporting restrictions

Dozens of reporters have turned in their access badges and exited the Pentagon rather than agree to a…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #department-of-defense #department-of-war #DonaldTrump #mediapolicy #pentagonreportingrules #PeteHegseth #peterhegseth #secretaryofwar #THENEWYORKTIMES #thepentagon #the-washington-post
newsbeep.com/189051/

Headlines Africaafrica@journa.host
2025-03-20

Southern Africa: African Commission Calls for Guidelines to Adapt African Media Policy to Digital Era: [MISA] The Commission's resolution highlights the pressing need to update African media policy for the digital age. newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJdb #MediaPolicy #DigitalEra #AfricanCommission #SouthernAfrica #MediaGuidelines

Decentered Mediadecenteredmedia
2025-03-06

How has the concept of ‘audience’ shaped the way we engage with media? Are we passive viewers, active participants, or something in between? As media shifts, does regulation need to rethink how it defines and includes the public?

decentered.co.uk/challenging-t

Decentered Mediadecenteredmedia
2025-02-24

How can media policy support sustainability, diversity, and public interest in a digital age? The Irish Future of Media Commission tackled these challenges—what lessons can the UK take from it?

decentred.co.uk/lessons-from-t

2025-02-14

👂 Hörempfehlung! Die aktuelle Ausgabe des österreichischen Medienmagazins #Doublecheck auf #Ö1

Die geleakten Papiere der blau-schwarzen Koalitionsverhandlungen offenbaren die geplanten Massnahmen gegen die öffentlich-rechtlichen #Medien und den #Journalismus in #Österreich

Laut den Plänen hätten "parteipolitische Medienkanäle staatliche Medienförderung bekommen sollen & Schwächung des Investigativjournalismus durch das Zitierverbot".

👉 oe1.orf.at/player/20250213/790

#pressfreedom #mediapolicy

Decentered Mediadecenteredmedia
2025-02-06

How can community media reclaim its role in fostering civic engagement and local representation when regulation and funding structures continue to prioritise commercial viability over social gain? Read more on the challenges and potential solutions

decentred.co.uk/social-gain-an

Decentered Mediadecenteredmedia
2025-01-29

How can Ofcom open AM & FM licensing while supporting SSDAB and ensuring efficient spectrum use? A balanced approach could boost local media, support devolution, and counter misinformation. What role should community radio play in the UK's media future?

decentred.co.uk/unlocking-the-

Decentered Mediadecenteredmedia
2025-01-19

Who benefits from the changes in the Community Radio Order 2025? As analogue licences extend indefinitely and income caps are removed, are we balancing financial sustainability with fairness and innovation? Read more about the challenges and opportunities:

decentred.co.uk/community-radi

2024-12-18

BIG TECH MUST GO - Martin Andree

tilvids.com/w/g5rwMjNhZo8bzu8v

Decentered Mediadecenteredmedia
2024-12-11

Should the UK government rethink its digital switchover plans for radio? Our latest blog explores why FM and AM remain vital for audiences and how a more balanced approach to licensing could foster innovation

decentred.co.uk/come-on-dcms-i

Decentered Mediadecenteredmedia
2024-11-01

Is it time for the UK government to invest in community media? Our latest post discusses why the often-overlooked 'mezzo' media sector needs support to build trusted, accountable, and locally focused media.

decentred.co.uk/rebuilding-the

Decentered Mediadecenteredmedia
2024-09-15

Has the decline in community radio eroded the transformative potential it once had? What impact has the reduction in Key Commitments had on local voices and social cohesion? Read more on how we’re squandering a legacy of grassroots media in our latest post.

decentred.co.uk/community-radi

Decentered Mediadecenteredmedia
2024-06-17

Check out our latest blog post on the impact of zero-sum thinking on social cohesion. Discover how media policies and community media can foster cooperation and mutual benefit.

decentred.co.uk/community-medi

Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2024-01-25

#MediaPolicy #CommunicationGovernance #TechnologyPolicy #MediaStudies: "The Global Media Policy Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of Global Communication Governance at the crossroads, the 20th title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. Edited by Claudia Padovani, Véronique Wavre, Arne Hintz, Gerard Goggin and Petros Iosifidis.

The collection celebrates 20+ years of activity of the Working Group on Global Media Policy, addressing current challenges, trends and transformations in global communication governance. Exploring changes in the actors, issues, values and contexts of media and communications, it investigates the crossroads that media policy is facing and offers visions for the future. A diverse range of scholars and expert practitioners discuss what regulatory reforms and governing mechanisms are required to advance democratic participation and fundamental rights in platform societies.

Organized around five sections, the volume considers the geopolitics of emerging communication orders; the changing roles of actors and stakeholders; the challenge of embedding rights and values in regulatory arrangements; the intersection of technology and policy; and the need to rethink epistemologies and methodologies for researching this field.

Contributions from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds include provocative think pieces and longer analyses. All chapters are grounded in historically-aware understandings of contemporary transformations, while anticipating dynamics of our communication futures."

iamcr.org/publications/iamcr-b

Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2023-09-12

#Media #MediaPolicy #Journalism #News #PublicService #MarketFailure: "Amid the retreat of local journalism and the resulting emergence of “news deserts,” where communities lack authentic and civically accountable sources of news, it is important to not only seek new revenue streams for news organizations but also to consider how financial resources and institutional structures secure journalistic autonomy and an abiding dedication to public service. Surveying initiatives to bolster local reporting in multiple countries, this study finds that such efforts frequently rest on an unstated optimism that market failures can be corrected and that new, sustainable business models ultimately will solve the journalism crisis. In contrast to these stopgap interventions, initiatives based on public service media principles found in the world's healthiest democracies—such as providing information across all social groups and fostering civic engagement—are better positioned to rebuild local systems in which news media are structured as enduring social institutions with crucial roles to play in democratic processes."

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆®thorchrs@mstdn.ca
2023-08-06

👇🇨🇦Whats good for the goose is NOT good for the gander #CONservatives #PeePee
"Conservatives ran on similar media policy as Liberals, but now claim it's censorship" #MediaPolicy
ctvnews.ca/politics/conservati

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