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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March 23, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
A situational analysis questions the degree of safety for small newspapers. Alan Mutter, a senior media and technology executive and author of Reflections of a Newsosaur, a blog about the news industry, re-examines the dangers of...
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February 23, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
Media Privatization and the Spread of Foreign Ownership in East Central Europe “Denationalization and privatization are among the fundamental prerequisites for the development of new (democratic) media systems. Nearly a half century...
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February 21, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
After the collateral damage caused by free papers, a surge towards media concentration. Recently, a normally sedate Switzerland gained unusual media attention, not only due to data theft and banking secrecy, but with the help of Ghedafi...
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February 4, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
After news reports focused on swine flu, the snow “catastrophe“ (proving to be scarcely more than a hearty winter), and the tragic Haitian earthquake, last week’s press was inundated with a different strain of media attention. For...
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January 19, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
All things free must come to an end, right? So it is for the post-2007 free Internet access to nytimes.com content. According to New York Magazine, “Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin...
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January 9, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
Tight budgets squeeze freelancers out of a living. A passable wage is generally accepted as the element which distinguishes a particular vocation from a profession. At some point in recent history, writing seems to have been demoted from a...
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