February 23, 2018 •
Business Models, Recent, Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
A podcast is a concept that’s new to most people in Slovakia. That’s why Bratislava-based journalist Dávid Tvrdoň received skeptical comments when he suggested producing one himself last November. Yet with the help of his colleagues...
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December 14, 2017 •
Business Models, Newsroom Management, Technology •
by Alexandra Borchardt
With business models under pressure and competition for audience and advertising dollars increasing, media organisations inevitably search for innovative new ways to attract audiences, tell stories or earn revenue. Yet newsrooms often rush...
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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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September 6, 2017 •
Business Models, Recent, Research •
by Christopher Buschow
Media start-ups, from established news platforms including Buzzfeed in the US and Mediapart in France, to more recent concepts such as Switzerland’s Project R, are often considered models of innovation, inspiration and radical funding...
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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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May 25, 2017 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Media Economics, Short stories •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Meduza, a Russian news website based in Latvia, is pioneering a new way to advertise. Audiences are challenged to participate in a game in which they manage a hypothetical Russian media company. When players (almost inevitably) fail they...
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May 22, 2017 •
Business Models, Photography and Video, Recent •
by Frantisek Gela
News organisations in the Czech Republic have made significant investments in video content in the past three years. While most include video as part of their news package, two Prague-based online news platforms have made video central to...
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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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