July 1, 2004 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Werbewoche, Nr. 25, July, 2004 Tabloid hype may provide certain opportunities, but there is a risk of downgrading content to the status of ad teasers. If this trend goes unchecked, the media will be digging their own grave....
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June 29, 2004 •
Media Economics •
by Martin Hitz
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 29, 2004 New competition in the local advertising market Publishers can rejoice: most US newspaper Web sites are in the black, according to a recent survey. The advance of Google, Yahoo and other Internet giants...
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May 21, 2004 •
Media Economics, Newsroom Management •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Werbewoche, Nr. 19, May, 2004 Many publishers and editors-in-chief have long suppressed the fact that journalism and the media can be just as interesting a subject to cover as politics and economics. They are thus depriving themselves of...
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April 30, 2004 •
Media Economics •
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung A Report on the State of Journalism"US journalism is in the middle of an epochal transformation, as momentous, probably, as the invention of the telegraph or television," concludes a report on the state...
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April 16, 2004 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 16, 2004 Distortion of information about risks When reporting about risks, many media tend to either dramatize or ignore the issues. The self-interest of the media also leads to distortions....
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March 5, 2004 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Mar. 05, 2004 It all sounds like an entry in the Guiness Book of World Records: so far 37,000 people from 100 different newspaper markets in the USA have been questioned by the Readership Institute of the...
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February 1, 2004 •
Business Models •
by Martin Hitz
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 01, 2004 Two studies from Germany and the USA For three years now, the media industry has been confronted with a continuing decline in demand for employment advertising. Newspapers have been especially hard...
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February 1, 2004 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl and Andrea Hoehne
Medienwissenschaft Schweiz, Nr. 2, February 2004EJO-RESEARCH Download: fulltext in German, PDF 522 KB Business journalism and risk communication: two cases in pointIn the words of sociologist Robert K. Merton (1983), researchers’...
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October 17, 2003 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Oct.17, 2003 A US study on newspaper editorial staff One news-editor for every 1,000 copies sold – states an American rule of thumb on newspaper staffing. In the light of this formula, media researchers Philip...
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