Strategic Grouping and Search for Quality Journalism, Online versus Offline

M. Ellman, Tomás Rodríguez Barraquer
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This paper investigates how supply-side factors influence the search for quality content in online and offline environments. We show that lower fixed costs of online publishing reduce the incentives to bundle content, as compared to offline journalism. In the presence of asymmetric information over journalistic quality, bundling of content by journalists who publish as a group generates positive informational externalities for users. Journalists group assortatively, better journalists having better partners. Then a consumer who discovers one quality journalist, has found several. The online environment, by reducing the pressure to group up, can lower welfare in our baseline model. We establish conditions for this result and investigate a number of countervailing forces.
高质量新闻的策略分组与搜索:线上与线下
本文研究了供给侧因素如何影响在线和离线环境中对优质内容的搜索。我们表明,与线下新闻相比,较低的固定成本降低了在线出版捆绑内容的动机。在新闻质量方面存在信息不对称的情况下,作为一个群体发布的记者将内容捆绑在一起,会给用户带来积极的信息外部性。记者的组合是选择性的,更好的记者有更好的合作伙伴。然后,一个消费者发现了一个高质量的记者,就会发现好几个。网络环境,通过减少群体的压力,可以降低我们基线模型中的福利。我们为这一结果建立了条件,并研究了一些相互抵消的力量。
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