Tag: Media ownership
Saving the news media means moving beyond the benevolence of billionaires
Rodney Benson, New York University and Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania
For the journalism industry, 2024 is off to...
In an era of billionaire media moguls, do press unions stand...
Marick Masters, Wayne State University
On Nov. 2, billionaire media owner Joe Ricketts abruptly shuttered the digital news sites DNAinfo and the Gothamist, terminating 116...
The backstory behind the unions that bought a Chicago Sun-Times stake
Brian Dolber, California State University San Marcos
An investment group led by former Chicago alderman and businessman Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor...