Revealing Interests of Major Owners in Newscasts of Controlled TV Channels (the Cases of NTV and REN)
Download paperPhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Media Theory and Economics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: makeenko.mikhail@smi.msu.ruPostgraduate student at the Chair of Media Theory and Economics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: 3497231@gmail.comSection: Media Economics
The article presents the results of the study of owners’ influence on formation of the newscasts of N TV and REN. Monitoring of the midday newscasts December 2013 to March 2014 revealed major trends in covering facts and events related to activities and business interests of legal entities and persons that can be described as the owners of the channels as well as of affiliated organizations. We believe that relying on analyzed data we can prove that news agenda is fanned by two major Russian networks’ newscasts under evident influence of their owners.