December 7, 2012 •
Media Economics •
by Piero Macri
In September this year online subscribers to the Financial Times exceeded 300,000 (313,000 to be precise) for the first time, recording a growth of 17 percent since the beginning of the year.Considering that the total paying readership...
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September 6, 2012 •
Media Economics •
by Michael Wise
New mobile media survey shows consumer confidence in journalists remains high, despite a growing distrust in mainstream media outlets. In the fifth installment of a six part series which looks at the impact of mobile devices on news...
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July 1, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Tina Bettels
In the last few years the downfall of the newspaper industry has been predicted excessively – especially in the US. In a study conducted at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism, the ways in which U.S. newspapers...
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June 11, 2012 •
Media Economics •
by Michael Wise
In statements made to the European Parliament, German MEP Doris Pack urged lawmakers to use public funding in the fight to save the struggling news industry. Speaking at an Association of European Journalists (AEJ) conference in early May,...
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November 28, 2011 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Support for public broadcasting and the press is a political issue, but not only in Austria. By comparing data from Germany, Finland, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Geert Linnebank from...
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November 16, 2011 •
Media Economics •
by Alessia Cerantola
Article courtesy of European Journalism Centre Before hanging himself from a tree in the garden of his house in Puglia, Pierpaolo Faggiano revealed in a letter what had driven him to this extreme act: his precarious working conditions. For...
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October 3, 2011 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
You certainly know Rupert Murdoch, but have you heard of Arthur J. Sulzberger? Perhaps not, as his name is only well known among media industry insiders. Like many other newspaper publishers, he makes little effort to seek the public...
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September 17, 2011 •
Media Economics, Newsroom Management •
by Linas Jegelevicius
*Article Courtesty of the European Journalism Centre Can one make a living as a freelance journalist in Lithuania? Are you fed up with the tedious working hours in your cubicle? And don’t you have to admit that the news editor is a...
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August 4, 2011 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
It was like watching the movie from the day before yesterday. Suddenly, all the three of them were back: Leo Kirch, Silvio Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch, the tycoons who influentially roughed up the media business in Europe during the 80s...
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