Canadian Newspaper Ownership in the Era of Convergence: Rediscovering Social Responsibility »

Hildebrandt, Romanov, Soderlund, and Wagenberg (all U. of Windsor, Ontario, Canada) add to their extensive body of published research on the impact of media ownership concentration on the health of Canadian democracy. Opening chapters provide an overview of the relationship between the press and democratic politics, and an historical review of the problem of concentration of media ownership in Canada. These are followed by two extensive case studies on ownership concentration in traditional newspaper chains and on the immediate consequences of convergence—the intensification of conventional concentration by consolidating different types of media under one corporate owner. Distributed in the U.S. by Michigan State U. Press. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR