March 21, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics, Recent, Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Raluca Radu
This is the second part of a two part study, comparing Europe’s Public Service Media (PSM). In a first article on the subject, we found that PSM’s budgets vary enormously across Europe and organisations do not share a common financial...
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February 23, 2018 •
Business Models, Recent, Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
A podcast is a concept that’s new to most people in Slovakia. That’s why Bratislava-based journalist Dávid Tvrdoň received skeptical comments when he suggested producing one himself last November. Yet with the help of his colleagues...
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December 18, 2017 •
Digital News, Media Economics, Recent, Technology •
by Nicolas Becquet
Are French media companies addicted to Facebook? Last month, in an article for EJO, journalist Nicolas Becquet described how Facebook is paying French media organisations to produce original video content for Facebook news feeds. In some...
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December 14, 2017 •
Business Models, Latest stories, Newsroom Management, Technology •
by Alexandra Borchardt
With business models under pressure and competition for audience and advertising dollars increasing, media organisations inevitably search for innovative new ways to attract audiences, tell stories or earn revenue. Yet newsrooms often rush...
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December 8, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Media Economics •
by Paulina Pacula
Fact-checkers, investigative reporters and foreign correspondents are essential to quality journalism, yet these roles are increasingly being cut by Poland’s mainstream media organisations for financial reasons. To redress the balance,...
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December 6, 2017 •
Business Models, Digital News, Media Economics, Research, Short stories •
by Felix Simon
Digital-born media companies face a gloomy future: while Google and Facebook see their ad businesses flourish, even the largest digital media companies are struggling to overcome challenges to their advertising-based business models....
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December 4, 2017 •
Business Models, Latest stories, Media Economics, Newsroom Management, Research •
by Felix Simon
It is currently one of the most pressing questions in journalism: how can legacy media successfully master the digital environment and flourish in a world dominated by the Internet and social media? So great is the interest and the...
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November 20, 2017 •
Digital News, Latest stories, Media Economics •
by Nicolas Becquet
Facebook has won. French media organisations are now indeed addicts. They are, in fact, triply addicted – to expanding their audience for free, to using the social network’s production and distribution tools, and to earning additional...
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October 10, 2017 •
Media Economics, Recent •
by Kaja Grzybowska
Internet publishers in Poland, who have traditionally based their business models on display advertising, are being challenged by a surge in the use of ad blockers. The country has the dubious privilege of being a world leader in ad...
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