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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April 22, 2010 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) meets in Istanbul, agrees to push Brussels. The annual EFJ meeting in Istanbul, drawing journalists from 24 countries, incited plans to encourage Brussels to respond to the European media crisis by...
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April 12, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
According to research conducted by the McKinsey group, the Internet is the driving force behind an increase in UK news consumption. Two surveys conducted in the UK in 2006 and 2009 reveal that consumption rose to 72 minutes per day, up...
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March 29, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
A study conducted by Skillset – a UK media training body – concludes that 44 percent of workers in the creative media industry perform unpaid labor in order to secure positions in the field. According to Skillset, entering the...
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