February 20, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Werbewoche, December 11. 2008 How will the business media handle our current recession? Is the fall of the West imminent? Is the end of the world near? One might assume, given the media’s preference for apocalyptic conjectures, that...
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February 20, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 19, 2008 Is the development of the press in the Bay Area a glimpse at what’s in store for journalism? Anyone who has been away from the Bay Area over the last few years would hardly recognize the...
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February 20, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist, 12/2008 + 1/2009 Philip Meyer, “elder statesman” among American journalism researchers, believes he’s been misunderstood. Meyer responds by piecing together his own prognosis. Frequently quoted in...
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February 20, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Werbewoche, January 15, 2009 The media’s latest catchword is misleading. At practically every media symposium in the German speaking world, a single catchword is at the center of discussion: Oekonomisierung (the commodification of...
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December 1, 2008 •
Business Models, Digital News •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 22, 2008 How Craigslist Revolutionised the Classifieds Business in the U.S. Some count him among the gravediggers of the daily newspaper, but for many he is the benefactor of all those who are buying or...
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October 30, 2008 •
Media Economics •
by Kurt W Zimmermann
Weltwoche 42/08 Kurt W. Zimmermann asks why journalists are reluctant to admit error We don’t care what nonsense was spread earlier about the financial market but unfortunately, our readers do. In the case of UBS, the journalists were...
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July 4, 2008 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist, 6+7, 2008 Among the dozens, probably hundreds of US blogs focused on journalism and the media, one distinguishes itself with a rather macabre title: newspaperdeathwatch.com. U.S. media critics are engaged in ...
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June 17, 2008 •
Media Economics •
by Marlis Prinzing
Publizistik No.2, June 2008 Scruples and Unscrupulousness in the Free-sheet Market All over the world, free sheets are turning national print markets upside down, whipping publishers and editorial staffs into a frenzy of fear, euphoria and...
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June 17, 2008 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Werbewoche, May 23,2008 The things we get for free are worthless: this may be a commonly held belief, but in our daily behaviour we don’t always seem much influenced by it. “The Cost of Zero Cost” is the heading of the third chapter...
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