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JMSC0101:Principles of Journalism and
the News Media
Professor Ying ChanJournalism and Media Studies Centre
JMSC0101
Lecture Four, 2007
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Outline • Why ownership matters• Types of media ownership• Global ownership trends• Media ownership in Hong Kong• Public broadcasting: current state and
controversies• The seven sins of commercialized media
– Case study: the Donald saga
• The future of media ownership: paradigm change?
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Why Study Media Ownership?
• Who controls the message?• Who are the “gatekeepers”? The
publisher? The editor? The producer?• What are the conditions under which
reporters do their job? What are the constraints?
• Are reporters free to write about important issues? (and exercise their conscience?)
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Media: Kinds of Ownership
• State ownership
• Private ownership
• Public ownership – listed companies
• Public ownership with private control
• Non-profit ownership
• “Independent” ownership
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Trends in Concentration of Ownership
• Concentration of ownership within one industry
• Cross-media ownership - owning more than one type of medium
• Conglomerate ownership - owning businesses other than the media
• Vertical integration - controlling several aspects of a single media industry (e.g. production and distribution)
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Media Concentration
• Increasing Concentration• Most people unaware• Media ownership
increasingly trans-national
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U.S. Media Ownership
• Top 10 chains own 1/5 of the dailies• 20 corporations control more than half of annual magazine
revenue• ONE broadcast company own more than 500 radio stations• More than half of the TV stations are network affiliates• The top six book publishing companies account for 40% of total
annual publishing revenue• 98% of cities are “one-paper” towns 24 media giants own over
half the television, newspaper, magazine, movies and radio in the US.
• Most of the remaining independently owned stations and news outlets are dependent on the media giants for all but purely local news coverage.
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Media Ownership
• 19th Century Press “Industrialization”
• 1837 start up cost: under 1,000 pounds
• 1867 start up cost: over 50,000 pound
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The Scene
• 14 daily Chinese language newspapers• Three English language dailies• Two commercial radio stations (4 channels)• Television
– Four free-to-air terrestrial channels, TVB the market leader; ATV the distant second
– HK cable (HK cable )– Satellite TV: Star, Phoenix – Web TV: NOW
• ??? Internet portals and sites
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Internationals
• AOL/Time Warner: CNN
• News Corp/Star TV and Phoenix
• CNBC
• Bloomberg News
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Internationals
• Dow Jones: AWSJ, Dow Jones Wire, International Herald Tribune
• Financial Times• Reuters
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Who owns the SCMP ?
• South China Morning Post (Holdings)• Malaysian tycoon
– ranked 104 on Forbes 2007 list– net worth of US$7 billion – business empire in more than a dozen Asian
countries - hotels, shipping. real estate, media, plantations, commodities and more.
• Owns major shares of the Bangkok Post and the Siam Post in Thailand
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The Man Behind Ming Pao
– Tiong Hiew King, timber baron
– Ranked 840 on Forbes 2007 list
– Net worth US$1.2 billion – Owns extensive forest in
Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Siberia, Brazil, Central Africa and New Zealand.
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The Man Behind Ming Pao
• Sin Chew Jit Poh, the largest-circulating Chinese newspaper in Malaysia
• 45% interest in Ming Pao Group of 10 publications
• Launched The National in Papua New Guinea and a Chinese newspaper in Cambodia.
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Who Owns Sing Tao ?
• Charles Ho, China Global Technology Group – Sing Tao Daily - Hong
Kong, United States (NYC, SF, LA, Chicago,) Canada ( Vancouver, Toronto) Australia, New Zealand
– HK Standard – Eastweek
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Framing Studies
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Case Study: The Donald Saga • Donald Tsang, Chief
Executive, HKSAR since July 1, 2005
• No. 2 in gov’t as Chief Secretary under Tung Chee-hwa; 38-year in civil service
• Took office after the unpopular Tung stepped down March 1, 2005
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Danold’s Dateline
• 3/1, Tung resigned
• 3/2, Tsang became acting CE
• 3/12, Tsang resigned to prepare for campaign
• 6/16, was declared winner with 716 of 800 vote in ‘small-circle’ election
• 7/1, sworn in as new CE
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Tsang the CE-in-Waiting
• 3/2 to 6/30, offers unique window to examine the coverage of Tsang
• Intensive Tsang-watch by the news media• Expect intense scrutiny of his records,
pledges, positions on critical issues and plans
• Opportunity to examine split between hard news vs soft news; and tendencies towards infotainment & tabloidization
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Methodology
• Newspapers– Oriental News, top selling mass market – Apple Daily, second selling mass market– Ming Pao: ‘quality paper’ targeting intellectuals
• Select all articles focused on Tsang(913)
• Looking for trigger, frame and narrative style
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Identifying the Trigger
• What "triggered" the story to become news in the first place. – Was a poll released? – A statement from a news maker? – Event organized by Tsang?– An official announcement?– Enterprise story by news organization?
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Framing the News
• Campaign news, poll ratings• Review of policies• previous records • Future political moves• Personal and trivia• Post-election plans• Activities as CE• Trivia/personal stories
(Ref: Project for Excellence in Journalism, http://www.journalism.org )
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Findings• Nearly one in three stories are horse-
racing stories, the up and down of polls• Nearly one in four stories are trivia and
personal snapshots• Nearly half of the total stories were
triggered by Tsang, the newsmaker, reflecting successes in his aggressive PR campaign
• Only 17.8% of the stories resulted from enterprise by news organizations
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Ming Pao coverage
trivia 21%campaign 32%
policies 9%
record 9%CE plans 13%
CE activities 4%
personal 12%
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Trigger of Personal Stories
Government/others 24%
Enterprise 18%
Tsang 58%
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HK Newspapers On Tsang
Triggered by Government/others 49.9%
Enterprise 21.1%
Triggered by Tsang 34%
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Typical Tabloid Coverage
• Flashy presentation, bold pix and graphics• Emphasis on personal background• Reliance of rumor and hearsay• Use of sources with low or uncertain
credibility• Paying sources for stories• Use of dramatic enactments
(Howard Kurtz, “Fit to Print, 2001)
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Private Life/Trivia
• What he wears, notably his bow-tie• Family dinner• His wife• His pet fishes, feeding pattern and
unfortunate death• Overtures to reporters, greeting, group
pictures, giving them flowers• His daily movements, going to church, his
plane delayed,
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Policies and Politics Sidelined• The West Kowloon Project 40 hectare
prime water front public property, US$400 m investment
• Universal Suffrage and outlook for political reform
• Medical and public health services reform
• Educational reform, Chinese vs. English as teaching languages
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The Future of Media Ownership
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Convergence
Convergence
Convergence
The Future
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Technology is revolutionizing the media
systemfrom news gathering, management,
production, distribution and ownership
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Future Trends in Media
• Digital based media (convergence)• High definition screens (quality/plasma) • Portable (wireless) palm sized computers
• Direct broadcasting (satellite)• Miniature appliances (weight and size)• Memory (greater/faster/storage)• Fiber optics/laser
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• Convergent Media : Print, video, audio, Web, wireless, e-mail, mobile devices
• Convergent Newsrooms
• Convergent Journalists
• What’s the implications for training journalists for the 21st century
Convergence the New World
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Ownership Converging
•Integration with Mainland China in ownership, market, and production•Non-media companies launch or acquire media properties•PRC media expanding in Hong Kong•Intensive competition leading to sensationalism and ……..
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TV: paradigm Change• Television on demand, anytime, anywhere –
TV, mobile phone, back of your car• TV delivered by traditional broadcasters,
cable or satellite operators, telecoms, ISPs and portals, IPTV
• Explosion in the number of TV channels• Niche programming and Web sites• User-created networks - QQ, Bittorrent• Personal media - MP3 players
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• Top 20 US websites
• Top sites World
• Top sites China
• Looking back at 2004
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Other than the “Mainstream”
• www.fas.org
• www.thenation.com
• www.truthout.com
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DIY-Journalism in Asia
• Ohmynews
• Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
• Malaysiakini.com
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An Enabling Environment for a Free & Responsible Media
• Build civil society: media monitors, active citizen groups, citizen and collaborative journalism
• Create and promote professional culture• Empower journalists: unions, continuing
education• Funding: support for non-commercial, and
citizen and public media • Conduct research that inform media reform and
policy changes