Mass media play a crucial role in information distribution and in the political market and public policy making. Theory predicts that information provided by the mass media reflects the media's incentives to provide news to different groups in society and affects these groups' influence in...

This paper uses the events surrounding and reactions to blogger/journalist David Weigel's dismissal from the Washington Post to explore three themes in the rapidly media ecology of the United States. First, the Weigelgate episode was rooted in conflicting interpretations of the journalist's...

Using a panel of 138 countries over 1994-2005 we identify a channel through which a media free from government control promotes domestic investment. We hypothesize that a free media may enhance socio-political stability creating a favorable investment climate that attracts investment. A...

The study tries to respond to a question of great current policy interest: have American media become more concentrated due to various M&As and shake-outs, or have then become less concentrated due to Internet and other new types of media entry? The study analyzes 100 different media and...

Using a panel of 138 countries over 1994-2005 we identify a channel through which a media free from government control promotes domestic investment. We hypothesize that as media becomes freer socio-political stability is enhanced due to the creation of a favorable business climate that attracts...

The present dominant tendency of economization and securitization of forced migration to our region and to the EU as a whole is the subject of a critical analysis in the paper. The global corporate media as representatives of the interests of the elites of the rich countries are presenting...