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| Title: | Canadian Newspaper Ownership in an Era of Convergence
: Rediscovering Social Responsibility |
| Author: | Walter C Soderlund & Kai Hildebrandt (eds) |
| ISBN: | 0888644396 : 9780888644398 |
| Illustrations: | tables |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 194 |
| Weight: | .332 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - April 2005 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Press & journalism: Canada |
Canadian Newspaper Ownership in an Era of Convergence investigates the current state of Canada's newspaper industry in light of recent developments -- increasing concentration of ownership, multi-media convergence, and controversy over the actions of proprietors. Case studies examine how Conrad Black's acquisition of newspapers in the mid-1990s, bringing his total ownership to over half of the country's dailies, followed by the subsequent purchase of the most important of these by CanWest Global, has actually influenced the content of newspapers. Canadian Newspaper Ownership revisits 'social responsibility' in the context of the changed media landscape as a means of prescribing how newspapers owners and employees might conduct themselves in the public interest.
"...a scholarly title with some crossover potential. The collection of essays details the increasing concentration of ownership in the Canadian media, including Conrad Black's acquisition orgy of the 1990s." -- Quill & Quire, January 2005 “Editors Walter C. Soderlund and Kai Hildebrandt, veteran media academics at Ontario's University of Windsor, walk us through frightening media convergence theory and painstakingly deconstruct Conrad Black's reign at the height of his Canadian media dynasty, when he amassed the largest news company in Canadian history. We tag along as they analyse the Asper family empire and hold up CanWest's latest national editorial policy as the best evidence of what can happen when newspaper owners decide to use their clout to shape public debate....the authors make an articulate and viable case for an ideal media ownership.” Karen Kleiss, The Edmonton Journal, July 17, 2005
