Latest Media Analysis
Original SN Media stories analysing how global media covers, frames, and amplifies the news.
The Monaco Incident and Its Impact on the Ukrainian Community in France
An attempted assassination in Monaco has spotlighted the Ukrainian community in the south of France — and the administrative and financial pressures testing thousands of displaced…
Measuring Influence: Reach, Trust, and the Limits of Metrics
Reach is easy to count and trust is hard to earn — the gap defines the real economics of influence.
How Public Relations Shapes What Becomes News
A large share of the news agenda begins as strategic communication — worth understanding to read the news well.
Soft Power in the Age of Platforms and Creators
Influence has decentralized from institutions to individuals — with new leverage and new risks.
The Influence Economy: How Narratives Are Manufactured
A look at the machinery — PR, creators, platforms and data — that shapes what audiences come to believe.
Cross-Border Media Ownership and Its Geopolitical Stakes
Who owns influential outlets across borders is increasingly a question of national and economic security.
The Global Contest to Shape the News Agenda
Agenda-setting has gone global, as competing centers of media power vie to frame world events.
How Nations Project Soft Power Through Media
International broadcasters, platforms and culture have become instruments of statecraft.
Information Sovereignty and the New Global Media Order
States increasingly treat information flows as strategic — reshaping the global media landscape.
How Financial News Became a Platform Business
The most valuable financial-information companies sell data, terminals and access as much as reporting.