Media in New York City Journal News", which covers Westchester County, to the north along the Hudson River and "The Bergen Record" and "The Star-Ledger", of Newark which cover northern New Jersey across the New York Bay and Hudson River to the west. New York City's digital companies, sometimes described as "Silicon Alley", include both software companies and companies known primarily as content producers. Among the former are Tumblr (now owned by Yahoo!), FourSquare and AOL. Among the latter are Gawker Media, BuzzFeed, and some of AOL's holdings, including HuffPost and Weblogs, Inc. The satirical newspaper "The Onion" (online-only since 2013) was based in New
Transparency of media ownership in Europe outputs and contents while transparency empowers readers to detect and appraise owners influences on the media and its contents. The European Commission's study on Indicators for Media Pluralism (2009) recognises transparency of media ownership and/or control as a key indicators of media pluralism. Also, media ownership transparency is essential for preventing concentration of media power which can unduly influence public opinion and the political debate. Precisely, transparency of media ownership is a precondition for assessing levels of concentration or other dimensions of diversity in a given media system. Indeed, if readers don't know who the real owners of media companies