CURRAN
& SEATON
media industries

Curran and Seaton’s widely read history of the media in the UK, Power Without Responsibility, narrates the story of how the media landscape has fallen under the control of a handful of global media conglomerates.
That unchecked expansion, they conclude, poses a significant problem to the democratic health of the UK.

worksheet
Horizontal vertical integration
Examines the benefits that conglomerate expansion brings.

e-worksheet
Proprietor ownership effects in the press
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12.2 Horizontal vertical integration analysis
Set text analysis that explores the benefits of conglomerate ownership

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Ownership concentration effects
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Horizontal vertical integration
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12.3 Ownership effects on newspapers
Analysis help sheet to help diagnose ownership effects on set texts.

poster
UK news proprietor influence
Downlaodable poster to show the print/online reach of UK newspapers

worksheet
Proprietor ownership effects in the press
Flipped learning handout the explores newspaper ownership in the UK.

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12.1 Commercial imperatives analysis
Set text analysis sheet that diagnose the effect of advertising on content.

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12.4 The commercialisation of web texts
Worksheet that diagnoses the commercialism of online set texts.