September 23, 2014 •
Business Models, Media Economics •
by David Levy
To a visiting European, Japanese news organisations appear to be thriving. Newspaper circulations are high, print subscriptions are strong, and newsrooms are hiring ever more journalists. Yet, things may not be as good as they seem. I’ve...
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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 14, 2014 •
Business Models •
by Thomas Schmidt
A report by the Media Insight Project, an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research challenges some widely held beliefs about where Americans get their news and which...
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May 8, 2014 •
Business Models •
by Philip Di Salvo
The search for an online journalism business model which not only survives but also guarantees publishers a future on the web, demands re-thinking of existing online news-service models. The Scandinavian Schibsted Media Group has been...
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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 26, 2014 •
Business Models, Media and Politics •
by John Anderson
Radio broadcasting remains a powerful medium of modern communications: in the United States, more than 240 million people use it every week. In times of crisis and disaster, it is often the medium of last resort. But its place of primacy...
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March 20, 2014 •
Business Models •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Andrew Gowers was editor of the Financial Times from 2001 to 2005. He then moved into public relations, and was head of corporate communications at Lehman Brothers, and later head of group media at BP. He is currently global head of...
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August 2, 2013 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality •
by Juliane Urban and Wolfgang Schweiger
The pressures of cost and time that newsrooms work under today severely hampers news production and threatens the nature of journalism. A large number of media outlets have tried to increase sales volume and revenue by moving downmarket...
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February 6, 2013 •
Business Models •
by Tănase Tasenţe
In 2012, advertisers invested more than 300 million euro into Romania’s advertising market, a 2 percent decrease when compared to 2011. Although television is the advertising channel which receives the most investment, the amounts...
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