TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trappel,Josef
TI  - Chapter 5 Subsidies: Fuel for the Media: Subsidies : Fuel for the Media
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Intellect
KW  - Business ethics & social responsibility
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Media studies
KW  - Media, information & communication industries
KW  - TV & society
KW  - alternative voices diversity
KW  - Austria
KW  - consumption
KW  - editorial independence
KW  - european media
KW  - France
KW  - international communication
KW  - Mass media
KW  - media policy tool box
KW  - new technology
KW  - Subsidy
KW  - Value-added tax
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Subsidies are controversial media policy tools as editorial independence might be affected by those granting subsidies to newsrooms, and because they do not comply with neo-liberal market rules. This chapter shows that financial and non-financial media subsidies are widespread in the media sector. They can help overcoming temporary crises of media companies, but they are no quick fix for the structural crises news media are undergoing. Most subsidies in European countries are granted for the purpose of maintaining diversity, holding power to account, educating journalists and encouraging alternative voices. With a view to the long tradition and the strengths and weaknesses of media subsidies the author concludes by suggesting accepting media subsidies as one element in the media policy tool box
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30509
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/62a13da6-89d5-4f5e-b65d-fc055da08bfd/645610.pdf
ER  -