Introduction

Loïc Ballarini (1)

1 Crem - Centre de Recherche sur les Médiations

The aim of this book is to present recent research on media independence by French-speaking researchers. The contributions bear witness to a dynamic field of research, which over the past 20 years has profoundly renewed media studies in the French-speaking world. The choice of the media independence theme was both a necessity and an opportunity—a vital necessity for the media, because the deep economic crisis they are facing cannot be resolved without a thorough reflection on the importance of media independence and the forces that jeopardise it; an opportunity for research, because independence is less a concept as such than the result of various intersecting issues. This is why this book approaches it from three interrelated and complementary perspectives: the economy, the relationship to media readers and the political context.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Loïc Ballarini. Introduction. Ballarini Loïc. The Independence of the News Media. Francophone Research on Media, Economics and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.1-4, 2020, Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series, 978-3-030-34053-7. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-34054-4_1⟩. ⟨hal-03023165⟩