Category: The Nordic region
Telenor and Spotify top the list of the 25 largest media companies in the Nordics 2021
The latest factsheet from Nordicom presents the list of the 25 largest media companies in the Nordics. The list covers a large variety of businesses with regard to geographic location, age, and ownership structure, as well as business focus and profitability levels.
Nordicom presents report as part of Swedish EU Presidency conference
Global platform companies have strengthened their financial and technological positions in the Nordic media markets over the past five years, according to the report Nordic News Media in Global Competition, which is now available in English. The report is presented today at a conference organised as part of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
New factsheet: Direct subsidies to news media – a Nordic overview
During 2022, several Nordic countries launched proposals to modernise press and media subsidies. But what are the current subsidy schemes? Which are the most important? And what suggestions are there for the future? Find out more in this new factsheet from Nordicom.
Global platforms are strengthening their grip on the Nordic media markets
A clear majority of digital advertising in the Nordic Region is now invested in global platform companies rather than domestic media, according to a new report from the Nordic Council of Ministers and Nordicom.
Media events in focus in new issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies
A new issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies, entitled Media Events in the Age of Global, Digital Media: Centring, Scale, and Participatory Liveness, has just been published. The articles in the issue demonstrate that media events is still an important concept to help us understand the working of the contemporary hybrid media landscape.
Here are the most cited Nordicom Review articles in 2021
Source evaluation, Danish-Swedish differences and hyper-local media are on top of Nordicom Review’s list of articles most cited in other scientific journals. Number eight on the list is an up-and-comer with an unusual number of citations in less than a year. The article investigates how the new dominance of music and television streaming has affected media consumption.
Men dominate the news flow in the Nordic countries
In Nordic media, only one-third of the news subjects are women, reports the Global Media Monitoring Project. Several Nordic country reports provide deepened analysis of gender equality per country.
Struggling with technology in everyday life – new special issue
Struggling with technology is the theme of a new special issue of Nordicom Review that has just been published. The contributions explore the cultural, social and temporal understandings of the complex ways in which people engage with and make use of different media types and technologies.Media has important role in communicating climate change
From the democratic functions of local journalism to polarisation in the climate debate on Twitter. New research, published by Nordicom at the University of Gothenburg, highlights how climate concerns shape the communications landscape of today.