If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. Enter Search Words Search. Fake news, fact-checking, and bias: Media consolidation in the U. This guide is intended to serve you as a "toolkit" to help you evaluate fact from fiction, journalism from agenda. Media consolidation What is media consolidation?
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The world moves on news. From decisions based on coverage of financial markets and political developments to those based on local news or weather reports, the news impacts our lives directly and indirectly.
News is available and accessed in multiple formats: digital online news content , print newspapers and magazines , and broadcasting TV and radio. Audience reach is an important parameter when assessing the business potential of news companies.
However, it is good to keep in mind that news companies are diversifying more and more by investing in non-news related businesses that may include software, data analytics, and real estate services.
Investors looking for investments in news-only companies should carefully study the overall business of a company to ensure that its operations fit into their desired investment profile.
Today, Americans think they have an unlimited variety of entertainment and media options right at their fingertips. But it is all a lie. This illusion of choice was fabricated by the media elites. In the early 90s before the mainstream adoption of the Internet, the media landscape used to be simple and straightforward. Objectivity in journalism is an illusion created by the elite class to give the appearance of balanced news.
However, there is no such thing as unbiased news. Journalists who work for these six corporations answer to their owners and ultimately serve their agendas. Its founder was concerned with both the state of the world and the quality of available news. Each weekday, the Monitor produces one, clearly labeled religious article offering spiritual insight often related to the news. It has long been funded by the Christian Science Church movement. It does not accept any federal tax money for its operations.
Non Profit Digital Only 1. Other verticals he owns includ e memeorandum. Operating originally as Google News-style fully-automated news aggregators, the company blended in human editors to the curation process in Its staff now includes nine news editors. Rivera has never raised outside capital for his company, which makes enough money from running sponsored company blog posts for advertisers like Microsoft, Google and Intel to eke out a small profit. City Journal is funded by the Manhattan Institute.
Paul E. Petersburg, Florida with a digital media outlet that reports on the state of media. Poynter is the owner of The Tampa Bay Times newspaper.
The school began on May 29, , when Nelson Poynter, the owner and chairman of the St. The name of the school was changed to the Poynter Institute almost a decade later. In , Nelson Poynter willed ownership of the Times Publishing Company to the Institute so that after his death the school would become the owner of the St. Petersburg Times. Poynter died in , at the age of He had become ill in his office just a few hours after he helped break ground for the new St. Petersburg campus of the University of South Florida.
At that point the Institute began to grow into the larger school that exists today. Non Profit Digital Only Giustra took an interest in Ms. By November, he gave her enough money she would not divulge figures to start a Website, and a print magazine. Gardner owns a small portion of Modern Farmer. The majority belongs to Giustra. A lawyer later told Gardner that she had signed one of the three worst deals he had ever seen.
Allbritton is also executive chairman of Perpetual Capital Partners, a private middle-market investment firm based in Washington, D.
Its principal funder is the J. MacArthur Foundation teamed with the Atlantic Richfield Company to save the financially struggling publication. Then the late J. Roderick MacArthur who had made a ceramics fortune and that investment continues to fund the publication along with advertising and subscription. The NYT reported recently that "Mr. Sir David Barclay, along with his twin brother Sir Frederick, bought The Spectator in , the magazine came as a side dish with their purchase of the Daily Telegraph.
Under their ownership, that quickly changed. The Spectator became a separate company with no financial cross-entanglements. The Spectator was established in , and touts itself as the best-written and most influential magazine in Britain. In , they launched their monthly global edition of the magazine, bringing to the rest of the world the same insight, original thought the British have enjoyed for years.
Best of luck with your research and I'd love to see your findings when you're able to share them. She is the sole owner of The Information. Revson Foundation. Founder John Wotowicz. John was also a founding Board Member of the Texas Tribune. Nonprofit Digital Only no subscription, A nonprofit news organization covering the U. American Journalism Project founded The 19th. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The American Spectator Foundation is a D. Donors are not listed in the 99 0.
Founded in by Kevin Braun and Michael Witt, the company began as a Capitol Hill clipping service, later became a weekly newsletter, and in became a Web-based news service. For Profit Digital Only The Institute is funded by many longtime donors and its fabled members and board are listed on the Biennial Report page UK digital site dedicated to journalism and media industry news.
Its motto is Fighting For Journalism and it contains news from the worlds of newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and online, dealing with launches, closures, moves, legislation and technological advances affecting journalists.
Mike Danson made his money from publishing. After graduating from Oxford, he worked as a management consultant, then in he founded Datamonitor, a market research specialist. Mr Danson, 47, a Manchester United fan, ran the startup Datamonitor on four credit cards before securing investment from Reuters.
He pocketed M pounds when he sold it. Commentary is a monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, and politics, as well as social and cultural issues. Commentary magazine developed into the leading postwar journal of Jewish affairs with well known media editor John Podhoretz.
Non Profit Monthly Print and Digital Launched September , NewsNation delivers three distinct hours of news content in prime-time, from 8 p. ET, with its anchors pivoting to various locations nationwide as news breaks and stories develop. It ranked 87th among all cable networks in prime time during the week of Jan. Two other founders, Sue Gardner and Jeff Larson, left after Angwin claimed Gardner was "overtly antagonistic toward the tech industry, rather than journalistically rigorous.
Gardner disputed that characterization. Knight Foundation The John D. Owned by the Meredith Corporation who publish limited edition collectors books. Top institutional investors in the company included BlackRock Fund Advisors Private For Profit Print Ricochet Audio Network offers over 50 original podcasts with new episodes released every day.
Since , Ricochet has been the community for smart, civil conversation on the center right. Private For Profit Podcast and Digital The Institute is funded by many longtime donors in the Biennial Report page Keilhacker Thomas D. Klingenstein Larry G.
Mattson Robert W. Launched in Phys. The website was founded in March by two PhD students motivated by the void in hard science news designed for informed and educated readers. The initial idea behind Science X was to cover physics, nanotechnology, and engineering news. While maintaining this focus, Science X has expanded its coverage to other relevant science and technology fields. Science X has filled the void and created a unique niche in science and technology daily news reporting.
As proof of this, the site immediately soared in popularity on the web. Today, Science X is a comprehensive sci-tech news portal for all major research disciplines. Some criticism of Physorg is that it is an aggregator of PR for the Science industry.
Private For Profit Digital Readership has grown steadily to include 5 million scientists, researchers, and engineers every month. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale. Cultural, literary and political journal published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Funded by The Public Concern Foundation PCF , a nonprofit educational foundation led by well-known publisher and editor of liberal magazines, Hamilton Fish, who is also the magazine's editor and publisher. Fish is a social entrepreneur, environmental advocate and film producer in New York City. He is currently the publisher of the twice-monthly independent political periodical. The website reports that the magazine is an independent, progressive and reader-supported journal of politics and the arts published each month in print, and updated daily online at washingtonspectator.
Fish had previously been at the New Republic In November , Fish resigned as publisher following allegations by female employees. Fish, PCF President and co-founder with Fairfax Dorn Executive Director of Ballroom Marfa of the Marfa Dialogues project, has worked throughout his career to incorporate political and social values in cultural and artistic initiatives through documentary films, musical theater, film festivals, and magazine and book publishing.
Media Bias reports that Fish is said to be a close advisor to George Soros. His is the son of the late Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. Wilson, Jr. Today, Chronicles is a program of Charlemagne Institute, a nonprofit, educational organization located in the Twin Cities of Minnesota dedicated to "defending and advancing Western civilization. The magazine is known for promoting anti-globalism, anti-intervention, and anti-immigration stances within conservative politics.
In early The Rockford Institute merged with The Charlemagne Institute, which became the new publisher of Chronicles Chronicles is funded through a subscription, donation and advertising model. Its website does not list any donors. Google was the biggest funder in along with Wojcicki Foundation YouTube Foundation while the largest donor to its endowment is Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
In July , there were 5B visitors to Wikipedia. Rupert Murdoch has a controlling interest in News Corp. Claims daily reach of over 11M. Chair is Shari Redstone, daughter of the late Sumner Redstone. Comcast is described as a family business. Federal government and donors to affiliate stations. Majority owned by Hearst Family. Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Kellogg Foundation. Each month , PBS reaches over million people through television and 26 million people online.
Patriarch Donald Newhouse and Newhouse Family. Wired, The New Yorker and Vogue alone each have over 1 million paid subscribers and add to that individual website traffic and we are well into the millions. DotDash is the parent subsidiary, founded originally by Scott Kurnit as About. Today, the Ochs-Sulzberger family, through several trusts, notably the Ochs-Sulzberger Trust, controls about 91 percent of the stock that elects 70 percent of the company's board members.
NY Magazine. Over 6 million paid subscribers. Owns full power stations including partner stations in markets. ComScore reports Feb monthly uniques 82,, Alden Global Capital owns all of Digital First. The Smith Family controls Sinclair. O wns owned or operated stations in markets. Wade Davis and Searchlight Capital Partners. Number 1 Spanish language network, 1.
Buzzfeed: 64 million unique visitors in February self-reported. Operates television stations and leading digital properties in 93 television markets, including the number-one rated television station in 68 markets and the first or second highest rated television station in 87 markets. Unclear funding. Mortimer Zuckerman, a Canadian American billionaire media proprietor, magazine editor, and investor.
Capitol Hill Publishing Corp. Averaging Chatham Assets Management led by Anthony Melchiorre , a Chicago-area native who has earned a reputation on Wall Street as a tough negotiator. Founded as an independent news cooperative, whose members are U. Reuters news reported in that it reaches 1 billion people worldwide through multiple platforms.
Comcast owns Telemundo, which includes its Telemundo network, which spans markets through its 16 owned stations and broadcast and cable affiliates, as well as mun2. Japanese financial news giant Nikkei. Epoch Times sells subscriptions in dozens of countries and makes some content available free on its website. Graham Holdings Company is a diversified American conglomerate holding company that once owned The Washington Post newspaper and Newsweek magazine.
Graham Media local TV stations reach 6. They donate to digital news startups as a portfolio so not really a news site onto itself. Self- reported 22 nillion monthly unique visitors, 90K print readers , Media Kit. Graham Holdings Company owns Slate. The Drudge Report is a U. According to Lysiak, the site drew in a billion page views a month in its heyday but more recently has been pulling in 20 million views.
Robert W. The company oversees all commercial activities related to the Society, including magazine publications and television channels. Apollo Management Global Management private equity firm. Science was founded in with seed money from Thomas Edison.
The Economist Newspaper Limited, the parent company of The Economist Group, is a private company and none of its shares are listed. For most of its existence The Economist has been content with a small circulation. Fourth generation at the helm, Frank Blethen.
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