Media ownership and concentration has major implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It is also a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi's companies have dominated Italian politics. Televisa has been accused of taking cash for positive coverage of politicians in Mexico. Even in tiny Iceland, the regulation of media concentration led to that country's first and only public referendum.Who Owns the World's Media? moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, the book covers thirteen media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a ten to twenty-five year period in thirty countries. In many countries--like Egypt, China, or Russia--little to no data exists and the publication of these chapters will become authoritative resources on the subject in those regions.After examining each country, Noam and his collaborators offer comparisons and analysis across industries, regions, and development levels. They also calculate overall national concentration trends beyond specific media industries, the market share of individual companies in the overall national media sector, and the size and trends of transnational companies in overall global media.This definitive global study of the extent and impact of media concentration will be an invaluable resource for communications, public policy, law, and business scholars in doing research and also for media, telecom, and IT companies and financial institutions in the private sector.

List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsPART I: Introduction1. Introduction2. MethodologyPART II: Media Concentration Around the World -- Country StudiesA. Europe3. Belgium - Peggy Valcke, Jo Groebel, and Moritz Bittner4. Finland - Mikko Gronlund5. France - Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean- Baptiste Lesourd6. Germany - Julia Bösch, Max-Josef Meier, Philipp Rösch-Schlanderer, and Achim Ekkehard Henning Wolf7. Ireland - Roddy Flynn and Paschal Preston8. Italy -Giuseppe Richeri and Benedetta Prario9. The Netherlands - Joost van Dreunen10. Portugal - Paulo Faustino11. Russia -Elena Vartanova12. Spain - Juan P. Artero and Alfonso Sanchez-Tabernero13. Sweden - Robert G. Picard, Mart Ots, and Madison Forsander14. Switzerland - Patrick Badillo and Dominique Bourgeois15. Turkey - Huseyin Kemal Bayazit16. United Kingdom - Petros IosifidisB. North America17. Canada - Dwayne Winseck18. United States - Eli NoamC. Latin America19. Argentina - Guillermo Mastrini, Ana Bizberge, and Martin Becerra20. Brazil - Sonia Virginia Moreira21. Chile - Sergio Godoy E.22. Mexico - Juan Enrique Huerta Wong and Rodrigo Gomez GarciaD. Asia-Pacific23. Australia - Franco Papandrea and Rodney Tiffen24. China - Min Hang25. India - Anuradha Bhattacharjee, Liwei Wang, Tapasya Banerjee, and Anushi Agrawal26. Japan - Kiyoshi Nakmaura, Teruaki Asari, Yoshiharu Ichikawa, Koichiro Hayashi, Hajime Yamada, and Sho Yamaguchi27. South Korea - Daeho Kim and Seongcheol Kim28. Taiwan - Yu-li Liu, Yantsai Chou, Kuo-feng Tseng, Ru-Shou Robert Chen, Yi-hsuan Chiang, Ping-Hung Chen, and Chun-Fa ChuangE. Middle East and Africa29. Egypt - Nagla Rizk30. Israel - Amit M. Schejter and Moran Yemini31. South Africa - George Angelopulo and Petrus H. PotgieterPART III - Summaries and Analyses32. National Media Concentrations Compared33. European Trends (Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd)34. Industry Analysis35. Company Analysis36. Ownership Analysis37. Analysis of Media Concentration38. FindingsBibliographyIndex