August 12, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
“Fair Trade” in the news business: What journalists and publishers might learn from behavioral economics. Rupert Murdoch’s London Times is the front-runner in attempting to introduce payments for its online content since early July....
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July 21, 2010 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
The Daily Mail‘s website is a humongous success. And it’s free. Let’s skip the pros and cons of the somewhat tired ‘to paywall or not to paywall’ argument for a moment and focus on a website which is quite...
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July 18, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
A recommendation for journalists: follow the lawyers. While journalists occasionally serve as the butt of a bad joke or two (ex: What do you get if you cross a sports reporter with a vegetable? A common tater), they’re victimized far...
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June 18, 2010 •
Business Models •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
New research may allow advertisers to sigh with ease and erase the gap between words and actions. Emily Falk of the University of California Los Angeles and her colleagues have managed to predict the actions of research participants better...
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June 12, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
Advertising blunder raises interesting questions about ad sales and content farms. Observed from France, where ads are localized, the Huffington Post’s homepage recently hosted what appears to be a gigantic advertisement featuring...
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June 11, 2010 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
The Los Angeles Times now embeds e-commerce links within online articles in hopes of revenue boosts. The new e-commerce links for sites like Amazon.com appear within the text of LAT articles but in green, rather than the old standby blue....
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May 27, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kurt W Zimmermann
Stefan Aust, former editor-in-chief of German news magazine Der Spiegel, can forget his idea of creating a competitor. The WAZ media group and the Springer group will not be joining his projected Woche. They simply don’t see a chance for...
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May 26, 2010 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Before the newspaper industry actually makes it to the media graveyard, experts predict another medium (television) may face the Reaper as well. In his blog “Reflections of a Newsosaur,” Alan Mutter, a media and technology...
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May 3, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
An entire industry shrinks, yet paychecks for a select few remain bloated as ever. As we’re all quite aware, 2009 surely made its mark as an ugly year for media workers across the globe. Despite the widespread slicing of salaries and...
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