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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March 6, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics •
by Thomas Schmidt
In contrast to many European countries the United States imposes few public interest regulations on its media. In his new book, America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform,...
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February 4, 2015 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality •
by Mark Blach-Ørsten
Denmark’s media will remember 2014 for two events. The country’s very own hacking scandal and a documentary about a tabloid newspaper that showed just how difficult the change from the ‘paper’ journalism business model to the...
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February 2, 2015 •
Media Economics, Research •
by Luis Palacio
More than 450 new media platforms, publishing everything from news and sports to technology and arts, have launched in Spain since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, but only a small proportion of them are making a profit,...
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January 16, 2015 •
Business Models, Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
So many media figures have lost their jobs recently that it seems to be the exception, rather than the rule, when a top journalist, such as Alan Rusbridger, Guardian newspaper editor-in-chief for 20 years, resigns on his own terms. These...
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December 12, 2014 •
Business Models •
by Tiziano Bonini
An online newspaper with a difference has been launched in Italy. Gli Stati Generali is a journalistic start-up with a strong IT component. The difference between this newspaper and others lies in its business model: contributors are...
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December 2, 2014 •
Media Economics, Short stories •
by Ralf Spiller and Stefan Weinacht
Traditional publishing business models have been challenged in the past decade as advertising revenues and profits decline. At the same time alternative business models have started to appear. Crowdfunding is one that has particularly...
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November 17, 2014 •
Business Models, Specialist Journalism •
by EJO
Call it desperation, or panic, but in a bid to hang on to every last cent of profit, regional and local newspapers in the US are neglecting their most loyal customers – print subscribers, according to Matt DeRienzo, a former...
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October 17, 2014 •
Media Economics, Specialist Journalism •
by Bret Schulte
Newspaper industry panics are not new. In the 1990s declining circulations prompted Northwestern University, in the US, to survey 37,000 readers in 100 newspaper markets, to find out why sales were dropping. It found that feature-style...
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