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The breakdown of local news ownership by political leaning in the United States, with a focus on the rise of large broadcast conglomerates and potential partisan influence.
A small set of broadcast groups now control a disproportionately large share of local television news: , , and together reach roughly 40% of stations and operate in the majority of U.S. markets . At t...
news media struggle to be purely objective because journalistic norms, economic incentives, political polarization, and technological change push coverage away from a neutral "view from nowhere," erod...
Coverage of split along predictable partisan and geographic lines: foregrounded the family’s grief, faith and leadership transition (notably ) while left‑leaning outlets emphasized institutional fallo...
A systematic, source-backed inventory tying major U.S. newspapers to owners or parent companies that have donated to Democratic candidates cannot be completed with the documents provided here; the ava...
Empirical evidence on ownership concentration among the largest U.S. media companies is fragmented but consistent in one core finding: a small set of conglomerates and tech platforms command dispropor...