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From the eighteenth century onward, news media have been crucial structures hosting the public arena in Western societies. They provided information, made elites visible to publics, and publics visible to elites and to each other. In this, they never functioned without fault or were completely free from power structures in society. Their role, beneficial and detrimental, in hosting the public arena and serving democracy over time and in different countries has been well established. But for our purposes here, we will focus on three features of news media that matter strongly for the contemporary public arena: The role of news media as an institution; The economic foundations of news; and The emergence of alternative news media in the public arena.Chapters:00:00 - Introduction00:22 - News media as structures of the public arena01:14 - News media as institutions09:23 - Economic foundations of the news16:23 - Alternative news media in the public arena23:24 - ConclusionScript:http://digitalmedia.andreasjungherr.de/public_arena.html#news-media-as-structures-of-the-public-arena