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Does media concentration threaten press freedom?

Do global media empires threaten press freedom or do consumers now have access to such a variety of sources and opinions online that media concentration is practically impossible? Two experts discuss this topic in Business Spotlight 6/2011. Our premium members can read the full article here online.

Cleaning up

Public anger over media corruption is bringing revolutionary change to Britain, writes The Guardian. In the US, the government is not reacting effectively to one of the worst consequences of the financial crisis, writes the Financial Times.

Are there reasons for concern about internet security in the US?

Media threats

This week, we look at media comment on Rupert Murdoch's control over the British media as well as at concerns about internet security in the US.

Seeing the future of the media

What will be the future of the media? As someone who works for a publisher that creates magazines, audio CDs, podcasts, videos, websites and many other products, I clearly have more than a passing interest in the subject.

Reading the business news

Newspaper headlines are often very difficult to understand. We hope it will be easier when you have tried to write your own headlines in this exercise.

Silly or sick?

The silly season is officially in full swing. This means that newspapers are full of silly stories in the month of August. I didn’t coin the expression “silly season”. You can look it up in the Oxford Dictionary of English.

Saure-Gurken-Zeit, Sommerloch (silly= albern)

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den Ausdruck prägen

Blogpaper

US: Is the internet killing newspapers? Joshua Karp doesn’t think so. Karp owns The Printed Blog, an internet company that plans to print blogs in newspaper form and circulate them for free in large US cities.

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And now, for the news

Where do you get your news? The TV? Newspapers? Magazine? What about the internet — it's available 24/7 and is updated 24/7, too. We focus on the language of the news in our test. Find out how much you know.

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