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Argentina’s media policy landscape has gone through various changes in recent years. Ariel Riera, Research & Impact Manager at Chequeado, writes here about the steps to take to tackle media concentration in the country. This is the third in a series of posts by former MSc students of LSE’s Department of Media and Communications, looking at various issues in media governance around the world.
God is everywhere, but his office is in Buenos Aires.
This Argentinian saying refers to the political and symbolic centrality of the city and the same could be said about the media landscape. In recent years, economies of scale have pushed the country’s media landscape to be increasingly concentrated in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, while a contraction of the national economy has also triggered media closures, mergers and acquisitions. Consequently, most popular news outlets are part of large multimedia groups based in that area, which to some