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Press Governance: A New Concept for Analyzing Press Regulation

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For several years now, the term governance enjoys great popularity among researchers and practitioners alike (Benz 2004; Bevir 2009; Kersbergen and Waarden 2004; Kooiman 2003; Mayntz 2004; Pierre and Peters 2000; Rhodes 1996; Schuppert 2005; Treib et al. 2007). Communication scholars use the term media governance in order to describe changes in policy-making and regulation in the media sector. Given societal and media change, they call for regulatory reforms such as implementing self- and co-regulation, strengthening citizen participation or developing processes of informal decision-making in (global) networks [for a detailed discussion, see, for example, the special issue of Communication, Culture and Critique, edited by d’Haenens et al. (2010), or Donges (2007a)].

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Puppis, M. (2013). Press Governance: A New Concept for Analyzing Press Regulation. In: Murschetz, P. (eds) State Aid for Newspapers. Media Business and Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35691-9_7

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