The effects of corporate acquisition on local news are measurable and quantifiable

Evidence

LeBrun, Benjamin, Kaitlyn Todd, and Andrew Piper. “Buying the News: A Quantitative Study of the Effects of Corporate Acquisition on Local News.” New Media & Society, March 24, 2022. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 1260

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s project of tracing private equity rollups and catalog acquisition into concrete formal features — here, news content under local station consolidation.
• SEED: A quantitative study on corporate acquisition of local news could anchor an essay tracing hedge-fund station rollups to specific changes in broadcast content and coverage depth.