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What Media Ownership Meant - Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff and Julie Sedel, How Media Ownership Matters (Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2024, 328 p.)

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Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff and Julie Sedel, How Media Ownership Matters (Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2024, 328 p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2026

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C.W. Anderson*
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Social and Political Science, University of Milan , Italy. Email: christopher.anderson@unimi.it
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , First View , pp. 1 - 7
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Archives européennes de Sociologie/European Journal of Sociology

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References

1 Michael Schudson, 2019. “Approaches to the sociology of news,” Media and Society, 6: 139–166.

2 Michael Schudson, 1989. “The sociology of news production,” Media, Culture & Society, 11 (3): 263–282.

3 Victor Pickard, 2014. America’s battle for media democracy: The triumph of corporate libertarianism and the future of media reform (New York, Cambridge University Press).

4 It is important to note here that Benson et al. compare different ownership forms within the countries they study—France, the US, and Sweden—rather than between them. The case for this strategy makes sense; comparative analysis between multiple forms of ownership in multiple countries would make an already structurally complex book entirely unwieldy. If certain patterns repeat themselves in different countries and different media systems, they note, this is increased evidence for the accuracy of their findings.

5 Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, 2004. Comparing Media Systems: three models of media and politics (Cambridge/New York, Cambridge University Press).