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Political Viewpoint Diversity in the News: Market and Ownership Conditions for a Pluralistic Media System
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Economics. Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE). Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Media, Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0722-4202
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Business Administration. Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Media, Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0301-9765
Department of Media and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.
2024 (English)In: The International Journal of Press/Politics, ISSN 1940-1612, E-ISSN 1940-1620, Vol. 29, no 4, p. 983-1003Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Abstract [en]

The assumption that ownership has an effect on the diversity of news is based on the forms of control that ownership allows and the market conditions in which ownership is exercised. In this study, we perform a large-scale analysis of the Swedish newspaper market, surveying 130 newspapers and parliamentary speeches over a period of six years (2014-2019), to substantiate to what extent market and for-profit ownership forms impact political viewpoint diversity. Our analysis shows that newspapers with market leadership and chain ownership offer more political viewpoint diversity than number two and single-owned papers. In contrast, the ownership forms surveyed here (private, foundation, and publicly traded ownerships) display little effect on newspapers' internal diversity. We also find that a greater number of papers in a local market does not imply more external diversity in that market. The analysis thus offers some nuance to the notion that ownership form and market pluralism are prerequisites for viewpoint diversity, highlighting instead the importance of scale effects for pluralistic media systems.

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Sage Publications, 2024. Vol. 29, no 4, p. 983-1003
Keywords [en]
computational analysis, market conditions, ownership, pluralism, political viewpoint diversity
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Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-62674DOI: 10.1177/19401612231178254ISI: 001080806900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85173934010Local ID: HOA;intsam;910042OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-62674DiVA, id: diva2:1805299
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Swedish Competition Authority, 406/2019Available from: 2023-10-16 Created: 2023-10-16 Last updated: 2025-10-13Bibliographically approved

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