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Austria: More Transparency Wanted

The Austrian government and its state-controlled industries spend an annual €95 million on advertising.

The major share of this figure supports big boulevard newspapers in addition to the free press. In contrast, a mere €1.7 million of public funding is devoted to journalism education, the improvement of literacy and the network of correspondents. Close to €11 million go to publishing houses as indirect subsidies to support newspaper distribution as well as the regional diversity of the daily press.

This blatant misproportion makes the demand for transparency highly evident, in general if taxpayer money is being used, but particularly if advertising is financed with public money. Occasionally subsidies of this size may even dictate the fate of certain titles.

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How German Journalists Tweet

Most German news editors are of the opinion that the importance of Twitter is currently overrated.

The “overrated” notion emerged as the result of a survey among editorial offices within the frame of the study “Twitter and Journalism: The Influence of the Social Web on the News” conducted by the Institute for Communications Sciences at the Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster.

Christoph Neuberger, Hanna Jo vom Hofe and Christian Nuernbergk surveyed Read the rest of this entry »

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Predictable Future

New research may allow advertisers to sigh with ease and erase the gap between words and actions.

Emily Falk of the University of California Los Angeles and her colleagues have managed to predict the actions of research participants better than participants can themselves. In their study, the scientists took brain scans of 20 volunteers while reading them information about sunscreen and asking whether they’d use the products during the next week. Surprisingly, only half of the participants were able to correctly predict their future actions. Interpretations of the brain scans found that approximately 75 percent of actual behavior was predicted correctly through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI).

Results of the study could potentially help in shaping new and sharply efficient advertising Read the rest of this entry »

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Apple iPad Hype

After news reports focused on swine flu, the snow “catastrophe“ (proving to be scarcely more than a hearty winter), and the tragic Haitian earthquake, last week’s press was inundated with a different strain of media attention.

For days, Steve Jobs and his Apple iPad camped out on front pages, occupying additional space in business and lifestyle sections. Perhaps PR businesses feel tempted to project “ad value” – estimating the millions Apple would have spent had they paid for the free publicity the iPad received via print articles, TV reports, Internet discussion and broadcast airtime – as many PR strategists would in such cases, hoping to convince Read the rest of this entry »

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