March 23, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
A situational analysis questions the degree of safety for small newspapers. Alan Mutter, a senior media and technology executive and author of Reflections of a Newsosaur, a blog about the news industry, re-examines the dangers of...
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February 23, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
Media Privatization and the Spread of Foreign Ownership in East Central Europe “Denationalization and privatization are among the fundamental prerequisites for the development of new (democratic) media systems. Nearly a half century...
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February 21, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
After the collateral damage caused by free papers, a surge towards media concentration. Recently, a normally sedate Switzerland gained unusual media attention, not only due to data theft and banking secrecy, but with the help of Ghedafi...
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February 4, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
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...
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January 19, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
All things free must come to an end, right? So it is for the post-2007 free Internet access to nytimes.com content. According to New York Magazine, “Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin...
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January 9, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
Tight budgets squeeze freelancers out of a living. A passable wage is generally accepted as the element which distinguishes a particular vocation from a profession. At some point in recent history, writing seems to have been demoted from a...
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December 12, 2009 •
Media Economics, Newsroom Management •
by Kate Nacy
Editor & Publisher, a century-old magazine chronicling the peaks and valleys of the newspaper industry, will slip from the media landscape by the end of this year. The small magazine, serving 10,000 subscribers and 800,000 unique...
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November 29, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
Despite the delicate financial state of the news media, jouralism schools seem to be thriving. In fact, the education sector is perhaps the only area of journalism maintaining a healthy business model. In an article published in The...
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November 28, 2009 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
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...
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