Bizpress - The Rise of the Nordic Business Press

The project analyzes the development of the business press in the Nordic countries since 1960

In all Nordic countries there has been an explosive growth in the area of business news over the last decades - both quantitatively (number of articles, programs, and journalists dedicated to business issues) and qualitatively (editorial specialization, new media, and new genres). Increasing professionalization of media handling on the side of business - and public organizations has paralleled the development of business newsmaking, and gradually a new mass-mediated business arena seems to have emerged. The present project intends to analyze this creation and institutionalization of modern business news - and its effects.

We focus on three sets of questions:

How have the institutions of newsmaking, i.e. the individual media actors, media organizations, and media markets, changed since 1960?
How has the content of media reporting on business issues been transformed in the course of the last 40 years?
How have relations between mass media and business developed both with respect to media-source relationship and with respect to media effects on business, e.g. new audiences, new dynamics of public interaction, and new roles of business in society?

The project, which runs from 2003 to 2005 is funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOS HS) which also funded project preparation in 2001-2002.

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Nordic project coordinator: Peter Kjær, Associate professor

Last updated by Dorrit Majlund 13/07/2005