July 31, 2015 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Rachel Stern
Located in an airy office in Berlin’s Mitte neighbourhood, newscase is a fast-growing, profitable Berlin journalism start-up – without any journalists. Newscase is an aggregator with a difference. It distributes the content of 100...
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June 29, 2015 •
Media Economics, Short stories •
by José Moreno
What is the single most striking element explaining the difficulty in the discovery and implementation of new business models for the media in the digital age? According to a recent paper published in the Portuguese academic journal, OBS,...
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June 24, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Dariya Orlova and Victoria Sydorenko
Recent political developments in Ukraine, following the EuroMaidan Revolution, have seen increased democratization of the country. Yet press freedom remains highly vulnerable, as media-owning oligarchs continue to exert editorial pressure...
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June 17, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Valerio Bassan
Technology is pivotal in newspapers’ challenge to sustainability. The following is a list of features I’d like to see every digital newspaper experiment with. You will find neither absolute truths in this post, nor revolutionary...
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June 16, 2015 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Robert G. Picard
Smartphones and tablets are increasing consumption of news on digital platforms and more customers are accessing digital news throughout the day, according to the 2015 Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute, University of Oxford,...
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June 16, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by David Levy
This year’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report is based on research conducted in 12 countries, surveying over 23,000 people. Key findings include a sharp increase in the use of social media platforms to reach audiences, a surge in the...
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April 10, 2015 •
Business Models, Recent •
by Valerio Bassan
What is BuzzFeed? A newspaper for millennials, a social media, a marketing company, a lab experimenting on virality? The website started by Jonah Peretti is all of this, and it could become something else in the future. Numbers, after all,...
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April 3, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Jairo Mejia
News agencies can and should respond to the new media and technological environment, according to new research. In ‘Reinventing the wire: how to prepare for constant disruptions’, Jairo Mejia, a Washington correspondent for the...
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March 17, 2015 •
Business Models, Recent •
by Scott. R Maier
Much attention has been given to the newspaper industry’s plight as advertising plummets and circulation steadily declines. But largely missed among all the dire predictions is a surprising finding: metro dailies in the United States and...
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