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Who Will Save Euronews Portugese?
Posted by Filipa Moreno in Fields of Coverage on March 1, 2012
Article contributed by the European Journalism Centre
The Portuguese language service of Euronews is facing closure following the decision of the Portuguese government to end its contract with the international news channel.
Due to the economic crisis, the Portuguese government has been forced to make cuts in every sector. “As far as I know, the government’s decision is not against Euronews; it was aimed at saving resources and Euronews was a collateral victim,” explained the Portuguese politician José Ribeiro e Castro, who is also the president of a governmental commission for education and culture. The news was announced by Euronews’ CEO Michael Peters to the Portuguese Parliament on January 18th.
In protest against the decision, Ribeiro e Castro launched an online petition “Let’s save Euronews Portuguese,” which has collected over 1,700 signatures so far. The politician, who is also a Member of the European Parliament for the European People’s Party, sees Euronews Portuguese as a valuable medium to deliver European news to a worldwide Read the rest of this entry »
Freelancing in Lithuania
Posted by Linas Jegelevicius in Media Economics, Newsroom Management on September 17, 2011
*Article Courtesty of the European Journalism Centre
Can one make a living as a freelance journalist in Lithuania?
Are you fed up with the tedious working hours in your cubicle? And don’t you have to admit that the news editor is a walking nagger whom you cannot stand? Would you rather be your own boss? If so, freelancing is obviously the way to go.
Being a freelance journalist in Lithuania, however, i.e. handling your time the way you want and taking on gigs you desire, might turn out to be quite a different experience from what it means in a Western European country or the U.S.
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A Third Path for Journalists?
Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Media Economics on May 26, 2011
Marie-Luise Kiefer, a renowned media economist in the German-speaking world, dares to go far.
She’s searching for a “third road” to finance journalism, as the current private business solution of financing newsrooms with advertising revenue no longer seems to work. Hence, she suggests a transformation for journalism – similar to that taken on by medical doctors and lawyers – into a state of professional, collegial self-organization. Given journalism’s relevance for democracy, she suggests that the state should become responsible for “the reorganization of journalism, including its funding.” The “journalist” would become a “protected denomination of a profession, which is bound at theoretical and practical training curricula and respective exams” – similar to the profession’s status in Italy, where, however, such state exams have not helped improve Read the rest of this entry »
Huffington Post Blows It in France
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics on June 12, 2010
Advertising blunder raises interesting questions about ad sales and content farms.
Observed from France, where ads are localized, the Huffington Post’s homepage recently hosted what appears to be a gigantic advertisement featuring the rump of a nude cartoon. The product being sold here was (drumroll please…) a flatulence application for the iPhone. Indeed.
The ad, clearly not of the Rolex-variety, illustrates a blatantly poor choice from HuffPo’s ad sales team, but also seems to highlight what Paris-based writer and media consultant Frédéric Filloux says “demonstrates a tragic inability to understand the true power of the Internet, i.e, making contents globally accessible to a solvent population.” Read the rest of this entry »
A Public Good in Europe?
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics, Media Policy on April 22, 2010
European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) meets in Istanbul, agrees to push Brussels.
The annual EFJ meeting in Istanbul, drawing journalists from 24 countries, incited plans to encourage Brussels to respond to the European media crisis by persuading EU member states to augment the sector. Citing governmental support for theaters and museums in the spirit of reinforcing cultural pluralism, the preservation of journalism was called on for the sake of protecting “information pluralism.” Concerns among members focus largely on how to fund journalism with advertisers scattering like flies. The unions hope to devise a series of proposals geared toward developing a shared, EU-approach to media.
See the EUobserver for more.
Apple iPad Hype
Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Media Economics on February 4, 2010
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 »
“Reviewing” the Future of News
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics, New Media & Web 2.0 on November 28, 2009
As 2009 comes to a close, the various problems afflicting the newspaper industry have hardly subsided, although several plans aimed at improving the state of affairs were spawned.
Pay walls, micro-payments, cost-cutting initiatives, online subscriptions, micro-donations, government bailouts – the list continues, although no clear winner surfaced. Of greatest value, perhaps, is the collection of ideas and experiments designed by researchers and practitioners, hoping to erect a new platform for the kind of journalism we gravely require. In what he calls a “Flying Seminar on the Future of News,” Jay Rosen, author of journalism blog PressThink, collected several high-caliber articles dealing with the economy of news.
For a thorough review, see his entry at Pressthink.
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