1. Who provides online news?
References:
James Curran (2012) Reinterpreting the Internet
Pew (2011) State of the Media Report

2. In 2010…
• 80% of internet traffic to news sites was
concentrated on the top 7% of sites.
• 67% of these sites were controlled by news
organisations from the pre internet era.
• 13% were accounted for by content aggregators.
• Only 14% of these sites were online only
operations that produced mostly original
reportorial content.

3. • In other words, the rise of the internet has not
undermined leading news organisations, on
the contrary it has enabled them to extend
their dominance across technologies.
• In Britain there was no online independent
among the top 10 news sites in 2011.

4. • In 2011 Google and yahoo tended to privilege
leading news providers in their search
results, reinforcing their dominance.
• This defends the leading news brands’
oligopoly.

5. Extension work: Possible case studies to look into:
It is useful to consider some examples of
alternative news providers and how they
operate, e.g.
• Pink News
• Positive News