Political economy of media: An income-expense analysis of state aids to Iranian newspapers

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17230/Ad-minister.39.5

Keywords:

Media economics, State aid, Media policy, Iranian newspaper, Print media, Political economy, Communication policy, Business model

Abstract

Iranian newspapers have traditionally relied on state aids and public budget to survive. The dependency has still lingered amid a change of policy that has affected the newspapers’ financial status. This article invokes the available data on governmental support to examine the political economy of newspapers in Iran during the two decades of 1990s and 2000s. The data were collected from official releases by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance as well as several nonconfidential internal bulletins of the newspaper organizations. Having applied an income-expense analysis, the paper explains the government’s role in newspaper economics and discusses the policy of repurposing the existing subsidies.

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  • Datis Khajeheian, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Department of Business Management, University of Tehran, Iran. Email: khajeheian@ut.ac.ir ORCID:
    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9913-3732

  • Abbas Jafari, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    PhD. University of Tehran, Iran. Email: ab.jafari@ut.ac.ir ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-
    7820

  • Habib Abdolhossein, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    PhD student. Department of Business Management, University of Tehran, Iran. Email: h.abdolhossein@
    ut.ac.ir ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0213-3558

  • Esmaeil Ghaderifar, Vice-presidency for Science and Technology, Iran

    PhD. Vice-presidency for Science and Technology, Iran. Email: ghaderifar@isti.ir ORCID: https://
    orcid.org/0000-0003-4409-2085

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Published

2021-11-28

Issue

No. 39 (2021)

Section

Research Articles

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Khajeheian, D., Jafari, A., Abdolhossein, H., & Ghaderifar, E. (2021). Political economy of media: An income-expense analysis of state aids to Iranian newspapers. AD-Minister, 39, 97-120. https://doi.org/10.17230/Ad-minister.39.5