Profit Versus Partisan Causes in Diverse Ownership Models: A Case Study of Mainstream Newspapers in East Indian City of Kolkata

Q2 Social Sciences

Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-10-07 DOI:10.1177/1326365X211048571

Suruchi Mazumdar

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Abstract

The extant scholarship of media ownership, largely drawn from Anglo-Saxon studies, focuses on how corporate excesses translate to abuses of the public interest goal of journalism, paying less attention to ‘political instrumentalism’. This research aims to study how the complex interplay of business and political instrumentalism influences editorial policies in diversely owned, regional and national news media through a case study of commercially run newspapers’ coverage of anti-industrialization protests in the East Indian city of Kolkata. Through political–economic critiques and thematic analysis of newspaper articles and qualitative interviews, this research asserts the importance of the role of the ‘proprietor-editor’ and the binaries of regional/ national newspaper markets in the interplay of business and political instrumentalism in diversely owned news media.

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不同所有制模式下的利益与党派之争:以东印度加尔各答主流报纸为例

现存的媒体所有权研究主要来自盎格鲁撒克逊的研究，重点关注企业过度行为如何转化为对新闻业公共利益目标的滥用，而较少关注“政治工具主义”。本研究旨在通过对商业报纸报道东印度城市加尔各答的反工业化抗议活动的案例研究，研究商业和政治工具主义的复杂相互作用如何影响多元化、地区和国家新闻媒体的编辑政策。通过政治-经济批评、报纸文章的主题分析和定性采访，本研究断言了“所有者-编辑”的作用以及地区/国家报纸市场的二元性在多元化新闻媒体中商业和政治工具主义的相互作用中的重要性。

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