December 6, 2017 •
Business Models, Digital News, Media Economics, Research, Short stories •
by Felix Simon
Digital-born media companies face a gloomy future: while Google and Facebook see their ad businesses flourish, even the largest digital media companies are struggling to overcome challenges to their advertising-based business models....
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December 4, 2017 •
Business Models, Media Economics, Newsroom Management, Research •
by Felix Simon
It is currently one of the most pressing questions in journalism: how can legacy media successfully master the digital environment and flourish in a world dominated by the Internet and social media? So great is the interest and the...
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December 3, 2017 •
Comment, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Richard Sambrook
The recent publication of the Paradise Papers is another strong indication of the rising importance of global collaboration for investigative journalism. In April 2016, a consortium of news organisations published the Panama Papers – the...
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April 4, 2017 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics, Recent •
by Ainars Dimants
Newspapers in Latvia are struggling. They are increasingly mistrusted by readers, who accuse them of pushing the political views of their owners. Revenues are down as advertisers spend their money on the country’s growing digital media...
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March 30, 2017 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics, Recent •
by Julia Dos Santos
Independent news media operating in repressive regimes must become more innovative when seeking funding, according to new research. The first academic study of the economic structures of ‘oppositional’ news sites – outlets...
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March 28, 2017 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The European Union is celebrating itself – the so-called Treaty of Rome was sealed 60 years ago this month (March 2017) – and the occasion has provided Brussels eurocrats with an excuse to spend millions of euros on advertising...
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March 22, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent, Research •
by Marisa Torres da Silva
Online comments, still the most widely-used medium for audience participation and public engagement in mainstream news websites, continue to pose complex challenges to newsrooms. Concern about the poor quality of comments – whether...
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January 10, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
Journalists must work harder in 2017 to report fairly and accurately and to protect sources, according to a new report by the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN), published today. Ethics in the News, Challenges for Journalism in the...
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December 6, 2016 •
Digital News, Latest stories, Media Economics •
by Tom Nicholls
European digital-born news media are firmly rooted in journalism, rather than technology or finance, and are subject to similar funding and distribution challenges as their legacy competitors. They are most successful in countries with...
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