Media Ownership and Ideological Slant, Evidence from Australian Newspaper Mergers

media

ownership

ideology

newspapers

Australia

Plos One (2024)

Authors

Maxim Ananyev

Ekaterina Volkova

Published

December 31, 2024

Plos One (2024)

DOI SSRN PDF (Free Access)

Abstract

This paper examines how changes in media ownership affect the ideological slant of newspapers. Using Australian newspaper mergers as natural experiments, we document how consolidation of media ownership influences news content and political discourse.