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Media Mergers -- Atlantic Monthly Flashback - A look back at the early days of corporate control and consolidation of media ownership. A compilation of three late 1960's articles warning about the trend. From Atlantic Monthly archives.
How the News Media Covered a Media Merger - Analysis uses media coverage of Time-Warner merger to illustrate how consolidation of corporate ownership limits and distorts news coverage. Christopher Pieper and Kristen Hughes at U. Texas at Austin Graduate School of Journalism. (From The Real News Pages.)
Global Concentration: The Media Ownership Chart - News and data on media ownership, plus related articles about media monopolies and concentration of power.
New Democracy Forum -- The Future of Media? - Online debate about effects on democracy of corporate dominance and concentration of media ownership. Includes opinions from differing perspetives from Robert McChesney, Lawrence Grossman, Ralph Nader and other contributors. From Boston Review.
Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian - Excerpts from book critical of concentration of ownership of media.
Who Owns What? - Listings, coverage and forum about media ownership and consolidation, from The Columbia Journalism Review
Internet Part Of The Media Continuum - Explanation from investment point of view of how mergers between offline and online media companies are logical.
Nicholas Johnson on Media Monopoly - Interview with former FCC Commissioner and author of "How to Talk Back to Your Television" about possible implications of media monopolies. (1995)
Capitalist Media Monopoly? Think Again - Article by conservative columnist Brent Bozell contending that liberal fears of corporate control of media is a myth.
World Socialist Website -- Monopolies Tighten Grip on the Media - Article critical of media monopolies and lack of news coverage and public debate about them. (Sept.11,1999)

Wikipedia Articles

Concentration of media ownership - Concentration of media ownership (also known as media consolidation) is a commonly used term among those who are concerned that the majority of the media outlets are owned by a small number of conglomerates and corporations- especially those who view such consolidation as detrimental, dangerous, or otherwise worrying- to characterize ownership structure of mass media ...
News-Topic - The News-Topic (formerly the Lenoir News-Topic, which was a consolidation of the earlier Lenoir News and Lenoir Topic) is a newspaper published in Lenoir, North Carolina and serving all of Caldwell County, North Carolina. It is owned by the Paxton Media Group.
Luis A. Aranberri Mendizabal “Amatiño” - Luis Aranberri (Eibar, 1945), better known as “Amatiño”, is one of the media professionals that best represents the new school of journalism in the Basque language, or Euskara, which emerged around 1970 and which, in step with the creation of the Basque Country’s own institutions, was accompanied by the development and consolidation of a Basque news arena that was practically non-existent up to barely one generation ago.
Defense Visual Information Center - The Defense Visual Information Center (DVIC) is a division of the American Forces Information Service situated in March Air Reserve Base in Moreno Valley, California. It was established in 1994 after a consolidation of the Air Force Aerospace Audiovisual Service (AAVS) and the Navy's Still Records Media Center at Anacostia (SMRC).
The East Hampton Star - The East Hampton Star is a weekly, privately-owned newspaper published each Thursday in East Hampton, New York. It is one of the few independent, family-owned newspapers still thriving in the United States, in an era of corporate media consolidation.