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Antitrust and Competition

The Decline of American Journalism Is an Antitrust Problem

Sally Hubbard
Weak antitrust enforcement set the stage for Facebook and Google to extract the fruits of publishers’ labor. We won’t be able to save journalism...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Protect the News Media in the Age of Digital Platforms

ProMarket writers
Digital platforms present a new formidable threat to the news media that market forces will not correct if left to their own devices. The...
Media

How the Legal System Helps the Media Hold the Powerful to Account

Roy Shapira
The legal system is the bloodline of investigative journalism. Recent maneuvers by the Trump administration may jeopardize it.     When done effectively, investigative journalism can greatly...
Income Inequality

Watch: Raghuram Rajan on How Markets and States Leave Communities Behind

ProMarket writers
In a recent Stigler Center conversation with Luigi Zingales, Rajan talked about his new book The Third Pillar and explained why today’s populists “are...
Media

“Emmanuel Macron Is Not a Liberal, He Just Pretends to Be”

Guy Rolnik
The French president found himself under fire following an attempted police raid on the offices of the investigative news site Mediapart. While many around...
Antitrust and Competition

Social Media Clickwraps and the “Manufacture of Consent”

Jonathan Obar
A new study identifies a political economic interface design strategy that threatens privacy protections by maintaining “the biggest lie on the internet.” We check the...
Media

The News Media’s Business Model of Extortion

Guy Rolnik
The Jeff Bezos vs. The National Enquirer scandal highlights the role that extortion may play in the business model of some news outlets.  Jeff Bezos’s...
Media

Announcing the Participants in the 2019 Stigler Center Journalist in Residence Program

ProMarket writers
In March, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from France, Australia, India, China, Italy, Uganda, and the United States for an intensive 12-week program...
Antitrust and Competition

Facebook, Extreme Inequality, and Globalization: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2018

ProMarket writers
As 2018 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.     The early mentor to Mark...
Media

Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (December 9-16)

ProMarket writers
Congress misses an opportunity to scrutinize Google; the IRS is on life support; Johnson & Johnson reportedly knew for decades that its baby powder...
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