Higher education and the media: a meeting of minds?

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The interface between universities and the media has become one of the most important, but least understood aspects of higher education’s generally more open relationship with the outside world. Both are in the communications business, albeit operating on dramatically different timescales and often with contrasting objectives, news being an instant business that deals, whenever possible, in exclusivity, whereas academic inquiry is not time‐limited and is rooted in traditions of open publication. Nevertheless, academia and journalism have moved closer to one another than any observer would have predicted even 30 years ago. A symbiotic relationship has developed between the two and alliances have been forged that can spill over into competition between media organizations and universities. This chapter examines the pressures that have brought about such convergence of roles and considers where they may lead in future. Will the global expansion of higher education and simultaneous contraction of print‐based news organizations encourage further patterns of common ownership? And will such arrangements be mutually beneficial, or might they compromise the independence of each partner, to the particular detriment of universities?

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