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Neoliberalism and Media Restructuration in Hong Kong and Taiwan: An economic perspective of Apple Daily’s story

  • Jing LIU

Research output: Conference PapersRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication)peer-review

Abstract

Neoliberalism as a set of economic principles guiding industrial restructuration has been observed across the world since 1990s, during which the structural transformations of media industry and market-driven journalism emerged simultaneously. Through participative observation in Apple Daily Hong Kong and Apple Daily Tai Wan, two leading popular newspapers affiliated with Next Media Group in two comparable societies in Asia which successively joined WTO in 1995 and 2002, and in-depth interview with 25 media professionals scattered along the corporate hierarchy in the two newspaper market, this paper takes a comparative perspective to trace the trajectory of Hong Kong and Tai Wan newspaper industry since the launch of Apple Daily, to capture the patterns in the changes of media structure, organizational setting and routines practices occurred within the two newspaper industries in the global wave of neoliberalism since 1990s.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2012
EventInternational Association of Media and Communication Research - Durban, South Africa
Duration: 15 Jul 201219 Jul 2012

Conference

ConferenceInternational Association of Media and Communication Research
PlaceSouth Africa
CityDurban
Period15/07/1219/07/12

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