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Survival is Success
Posted by Pier Luca Santoro in New Media & Web 2.0 on May 2, 2012
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism recently released a study focused on nine different digital startups from Germany, France and Italy.
Conducted by Nicola Bruno and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, the report is aptly titled “Survival is Success: Journalistic Online Startups in Western Europe.”
Focusing on nine “pure players” (i.e. Netzeitung, Mediapart and Il Post), research indicates that for digital startups dealing with information, surviving is already a success in this phase of the market. Among the nine online news outlets analyzed, only Mediapart and Perlentaucher broke even with a balanced budget while others, the Italian Il Post, Linkiesta and Lettera 43 included, are in the red and only surviving thanks to external contributions.
The analysis of different business models and placements of media outlets is also very interesting. In France, Mediapart publishes high-quality niche content for a specialized readership and adopted a paywall with very low subscription fees Read the rest of this entry »
The Slovak Model
Posted by Michal Kus in Media Economics, New Media & Web 2.0 on June 17, 2011
Slovakia’s online media join forces to alter audience attitudes about paid content.
As of late, media-focused websites like the Nieman Journalism Lab and paidContent.org, have noted an interesting initiative launched in Slovakia. On April 18th, nine of Slovakia’s major media organizations (including daily newspapers, weekly magazines and a television station) partnered with the Piano Media platform to introduce a new payment system. Now, nearly all online content provided by such media companies is no longer available for free in Slovakia. Read the rest of this entry »
Webdoc: The New Frontier of “Combined” Journalism
Posted by Simone della Ripa in New Media & Web 2.0 on February 8, 2011
The debate surrounding the fate of print newspapers has remained stagnant for quite some time.
While scholars of journalism and publishers asked themselves when the deadline would come – the point of no return born of distorted dualism – the latest trend in journalism arrived. A “webdoc” (shorthand for Web documentary) is a new, innovative form of reporting. There’s no paper involved, it’s true, but the webdoc draws inspiration from traditional print media, and in a way, gives back to print with the rich reportage it offers. Incorporating elements of classic Web projects, webdocs are essentially Internet sites featuring a creative array of tools to inform about a particular story or subject. An interactive fusion of photos, illustrations, videos, interviews, technical notes, and Read the rest of this entry »
Error Alliance
Posted by Kate Nacy in Ethics & Quality on December 7, 2010
An alliance of news organizations unite for accuracy.
The Report an Error Alliance, formed by Scott Rosenberg of MediaBugs and Craig Silverman of Regret the Error, is designed to improve accuracy in news coverage by giving readers the option to report errors they’ve discovered online. “The Web offers an incredible chance to enhance journalism standards,” writes Federica Cherubini of editorsweblog.org. “Not only can journalists apply (or should apply) the same standards of Read the rest of this entry »
eBay for Editors
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media & Web 2.0 on November 26, 2010
New app for journalists launches.
Qluso is a new online app that allows news editors to bid on exclusive stories from freelance journalists (in exchange for 10 percent of generated profit, of course). The app is designed to help news editors locate quality stories with the click of a mouse, while simultaneously helping freelancers connect with editors to receive competitive fees for journalistic work.
Journalists and the Hampster Wheel
Posted by Piero Macri in Ethics & Quality on October 5, 2010
More speed, more news, more traffic. How the click-per-view logic changed journalism.
The cover story of the latest issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, “The Hamster Wheel,” penned by Dean Starkman, analyzes and openly criticizes the dominant model in contemporary journalism. Starkman highlights a sort of perverse mechanism that he calls the Hamster Wheel, which he says tends to shape journalistic work around the principles that rule today’s market of on-line journalism. 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 »
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