The Times has a story today about the differences between a publicly (read: shareholders) and privately (read: mogul) held newspaper. They don’t appear to really offer much of a deep analysis either way, but prior research in fact has. I recently came across an article by U-Iowa Law faculty Randall Bezanson about this very distinction …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
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