Marcel Garz

Marcel Garz is an Associate Professor at Jönköping International Business School at Jönköping University, Sweden. His research focuses on news markets and digital platforms, with a focus on issues with cross-disciplinary implications, such as media slant and opinion diversity. His research often involves methods supporting causal inference from observational data, as well as deep learning, computational linguistics, and computer vision.

Does Media Consolidation Put the Fourth Estate at Risk?

The concentration of news media has spurred concerns about their ability to protect the marketplace of ideas integral to the functioning of democracy. Based on new research, Marcel Garz and Mart Ots discuss why media consolidation may not lead to lower journalistic quality but still affects society through a decline in local news and original content.

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