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Hedged : How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy

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The untold history of an American catastrophe The ultrawealthy largely own and guide the newspaper system in the United States. Through entities like hedge funds and private equity firms, this investor class continues to dismantle the one institution meant to give voice to average citizens in a democracy. Margot Susca reveals the little-known history of how private investment took over the newspaper industry. Drawing on a political economy of media, Susca's analysis uses in-depth interviews and documentary evidence to examine issues surrounding ownership and power. Susca also traces the scorched-earth policies of layoffs, debt, cash-outs, and wholesale newspaper closings left behind by private investors and the effects of the devastation on the future of news and information. Throughout, Susca reveals an industry rocked less by external forces like lost ad revenue and more by ownership and management obsessed with profit and beholden to private fund interests that feel no responsibility toward journalism or the public it is meant to serve.


Author: Margot Susca
Publisher: History of Media and Commu
Publication Date: Jan 23, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0252087569
ISBN-13: 9780252087561

Hedged : How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy

$31.47
 
The untold history of an American catastrophe The ultrawealthy largely own and guide the newspaper system in the United States. Through entities like hedge funds and private equity firms, this investor class continues to dismantle the one institution meant to give voice to average citizens in a democracy. Margot Susca reveals the little-known history of how private investment took over the newspaper industry. Drawing on a political economy of media, Susca's analysis uses in-depth interviews and documentary evidence to examine issues surrounding ownership and power. Susca also traces the scorched-earth policies of layoffs, debt, cash-outs, and wholesale newspaper closings left behind by private investors and the effects of the devastation on the future of news and information. Throughout, Susca reveals an industry rocked less by external forces like lost ad revenue and more by ownership and management obsessed with profit and beholden to private fund interests that feel no responsibility toward journalism or the public it is meant to serve.


Author: Margot Susca
Publisher: History of Media and Commu
Publication Date: Jan 23, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0252087569
ISBN-13: 9780252087561
 

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