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Mart Ots

Mart Ots is an Associate Professor at Jönköping International Business School at Jönköping University, Sweden. His research interests involve the digital transformation of media and communication, and its implications for legacy media businesses, emerging media professions, and makers of media policy.
Antitrust and Competition

Does Media Consolidation Put the Fourth Estate at Risk?

Marcel Garz
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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