News Values – The criteria that is needed to influence the selection and presentation of events as published news.
Gatekeepers – A person who controls access to something, for example via a city gate or bouncer, or more abstractly, who is granted access to a category or status.
Deregulation – The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry.
Free market – A system in which the prices for goods and services are self-regulated by the open market and by consumers.
Monopolies & Mergers – A British government organization whose job is to examine cases where two companies plan to join together to form one company, and to decide whether this would be bad for other businesses because there will be less competition.
Media concentration / Conglomerates / Globalisation (in terms of media ownership) – A process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media.
Vertical Integration & Horizontal Integration
Neo-liberalism and the Alt-Right
Surveillance / Privacy / Security / GDPR
The Leveson Enquiry – A judicial public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press following the News International phone hacking scandal, chaired by Lord Justice Leveson, who was appointed in July 2011.
The Cairncross Review – A survey that was sent out to the public by the government about what we should do about journalism in the UK
