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April 11, 2018 •
Business Models, Digital News, Media Economics, Recent, Technology •
by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Platform companies increasingly run much of the infrastructure of free expression and have a lasting impact on the news business. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen’s inaugural lecture analyses the power of platforms and tracks the challenges that lie...
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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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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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February 13, 2017 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality, Short stories •
by Krzysztof Dzieciolowski
The challenges facing modern journalism – and how to meet them – was the subject of the 2017 Reuters Memorial Lecture, at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, last Friday. In We broke the news. How do we fix it? Melissa...
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January 18, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Research •
by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Nobody likes fake news, whether produced for profit or for political purposes, and irrespective of how it has been disseminated. It clearly exists, whether propaganda or churned out by the now infamous Macedonian teenagers. But how much of...
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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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October 16, 2015 •
Business Models, Media Economics •
by Caroline Lees
The Guardian newspaper is facing editorial cuts and job losses due to a slowdown in advertising sales – both print and online – according to an internal email written by David Pemsel, Guardian Media Group’s (GMG) new chief...
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September 23, 2015 •
Media Economics, Recent •
by Alice Antheaume
Attracting a young audience is rapidly becoming a media obsession. In the United States, NBC Universal (NBCU) recently invested $200M in Vox Media and the same amount in Buzzfeed, which has an audience mainly composed of 18 to 34 years...
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