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Ask the Experts: Press Freedom

By Sam Quiñones, Cristina Manzano, Andres Schipani , Sibylla Brodzinsky

How have the consolidation of international media outlets, budget cuts and the Internet changed the journalism industry?

Sam Quiñones answers:

One effect is certainly to have strengthened the hand of institutions— government as well as corporate. Spokespeople for these agencies and companies may object.

But increasingly, newspaper newsrooms have been cut back so substantially that they no longer have enough people to adequately cover anything but the institutions that are set up to be covered: institutions that offer restricted access to information and institutions with spokespeople and elected officials.

Cutbacks and consolidation mean that news media are more dependent on the...

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