Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century

the rise of immensely powerful online communications and commercial platform monopolies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon with far-reaching control over news, debate, book publishing, music, television and film, online gaming, and how individuals and groups share information with one another

market rules to ensure that a succession of new communications technologies did not lead to concentrated private power over essential information infrastructure or over the gathering and publication of news . Americans used public policy to structure these markets and platforms in ways that sustained the growth of competitive, financially independe... See more

the now mostly forgotten history of how, during previous revolutions in information technology, Americans successfully protected free speech and democracy by using government to carefully manage competition and structure news media markets, including through direct regulation of essential communications platforms.