September 19, 2015 •
Business Models, Latest stories •
by Philip Di Salvo
In the last few weeks we’ve heard a lot about ad-blocking software and apps: tools enabling users to surf the internet without being bothered by banners, pop ups or other advertising content. The phenomenon is not new but the debate...
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September 10, 2015 •
Business Models, Short stories •
by Roman Hajek
Over the last two years the Czech Republic has seen the most dramatic change in newspaper ownership since the beginning of 1990s. Western (mostly German) companies that bought Czech newspapers 20 years ago, have now completely left the...
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August 13, 2015 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by José Moreno
Journalist Paul Mason recently published a controversial column in The Guardian arguing that we are entering a “post-capitalist” society, prefigured in the numerous examples of the so-called “sharing economy” that seem to be...
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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 5, 2015 •
Business Models, Recent •
by Rachel Stern
One year ago Blendle, a Dutch start-up, was founded with a goal to change how news is read and consumed. No small feat. Yet their micropayment model – readers pay per article, and can choose from a variety of outlets on one platform...
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May 19, 2015 •
Latest stories, Media Economics •
by Mah-Rukh Ali
At a time when TV channels are experiencing a decline in ratings, newspapers are being told they belong to the past, and webpages are struggling to make money from online news, Vice News seems to have broken the code. While many media...
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April 21, 2015 •
Business Models, Media and Politics •
by Wolfgang Blau
Politico Europe – the new Brussels-based site covering European politics – is doing important pioneer work in establishing the notion of there even being such a thing as a ‘European public sphere’. For European...
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April 16, 2015 •
Business Models •
by Thomas Schmidt
The future of the news business is in relationships. That’s Ken Doctor’s response to the continuing economic distress of newspapers. The avid media analyst and sought-after guru of all things newsonomics argues that news organizations...
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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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