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Market Structure and Innovation Policies in Italy

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This chapter shows that the Italian news media industry is facing structural changes and an increasing fragmentation of the audience favoured by technological developments. News media markets present a high degree of concentration being controlled by a small number of media companies that have become diversified and spread their activities across industries. The fact that a large majority of Italian inform themselves via the television raises media pluralism concerns because the Italian media industry is highly concentrated, both in terms of revenue and audience shares. Due to the high level of concentration in the different markets and the lack of specific innovation policies, the Italian news media industry faces an environment that is rather hampering more than stimulating innovation. A revision of the public subvention policy has been recently initiated to make the news media industry more competitive and to support the necessary adjustment to deal with changing media landscape.

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Dal Zotto, C., Sacco, V., Schenker, Y. (2017). Market Structure and Innovation Policies in Italy. In: van Kranenburg, H. (eds) Innovation Policies in the European News Media Industry. Media Business and Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45204-3_9

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