Sentence examples for press ownership from inspiring English sources

The biggest restraint on journalists' freedom to report is press ownership by over-powerful individuals and corporations.

"The i, under Johnston Press' ownership, will remain a quality daily broadsheet, whereas New Day will be firmly mid-market.

In short, this is no single, ideal model of press ownership anywhere in the world, particularly in an era of profound flux.

In 2002 we commissioned work on a statutory press complaints commission, a royal commission on limits to press ownership and a privacy law.

They are informed of political events through the press, but, as press ownership increasingly is concentrated in fewer hands, many persons consider the medium to be unamenable to the expression of a wide range of opinions.

Press ownership in Britain is traditionally a vehicle for great political influence: think of The Daily Telegraph (once owned by Conrad Black) supporting the Conservatives or the perception among all politicians that endorsement by Rupert Murdoch's Sun brings electoral victory.

Dictatorships control the press through ownership – either state ownership or ownership by friendly oligarchs – and by the murder of investigative journalists, not by privacy laws and the right of reply.

"The Yorkshire papers have been through many rounds of redundancies in the past decade or so under Johnston Press's ownership.

All they can do is campaign for regulatory relief - for ITV, more lenient programming obligations and for the press publishers, reduced ownership restrictions - and cut costs.

During the 1980s Loretta also chaired the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, lobbying parliament for restrictions on the concentration of press and TV ownership and fighting for fairer representation of women and ethnic minorities.

If the sale goes through as expected in late September, Mr. Black, 55, will have tailored his press fief to ownership of newspapers in prestige cities that he cares about: The Daily Telegraph in London, The Jerusalem Post and The Chicago Sun-Times.