Newspaper competition and content diversity: a comparison of regional media markets in Sweden

Competitividad entre diarios y la diversidad de sus contenidos. Un análisis comparado en los mercados regionales de los medios impresos en Suecia

Lars W. Nord ()
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Lars W. Nord: Centre for Study of Democracy and Communication, Mid Sweden University.

Papeles de Europa, 2013, vol. 26, issue 1, 01-13

Abstract: This article discusses the relationship between the newspaper market structure in a region and the diversity of local news. It introduces some partial results on studies based on substantial media concentration within two very different regional newspaper markets in the North and in the South of Sweden. The findings suggest that the relationship between newspaper competition and local news diversity is rather complicated. The study gives some support to the thought that ruinous competition sometimes could be as bad for news diversity as monopoly media.

Keywords: Content diversity; Competition; Monopoly; Newspaper market; Democracy.; Diversidad de contenido; Competencia; Monopolio; Mercado de periódicos; Democracia. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D40 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.5209/rev_PADE.2013.n26.42800

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