March 25, 2019 •
Business Models, Media and Politics, Media Economics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Kornelia R. Kiss
Media throughout Europe face the same challenge: to retain their independence, they have to be based on sound financial models. In Central and Eastern Europe, the problem is particularly acute. Kornélia R. Kiss looks at some ways in which...
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June 1, 2017 •
Business Models, Digital News, Short stories •
by EJO
Most European newspapers and news weeklies are operating a paywall as legacy revenues continue to decline and digital advertising increasingly moves to large technology companies, a study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of...
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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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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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July 2, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Federico Guerrini
The debate on whether readers will pay for news must include discussions on just how they pay for news: through a one off subscription, or through something more fragmented. Paul Dinulescu, the founder of Niuzly, an online publishing...
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May 22, 2014 •
Business Models, Digital News •
by Evgeniya Boklage
Commentators and scholars alike have dubbed 2013 “the year of the paywall” in the news industry. Many wonder whether it is going to resolve the deep crisis mostly manifested in diminishing advertisement revenues. Victor Pickard and...
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May 6, 2014 •
Business Models, Media Economics •
by Evgeniya Boklage
More and more online news outlets are experimenting now with paywalls, but academic research on the subject is still in its its infancy. A new study by Merja Myllylahti (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) published in Digital...
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March 19, 2014 •
Media Economics •
by Philip Di Salvo
Continuing our series to mark ten years of the European Journalism Observatory, Ezio Mauro, editor of the leading Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica speaks to the EJO’s Philip Di Salvo about the future of journalism....
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November 21, 2013 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl and Meera Selva
Ambitious, original, labour intensive journalism costs money, but is worth little on the open market. As behavioural economist Dan Ariely argues, most of us tend to behave irrationally if we can get something that appears to be free. We...
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