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Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster 媒体技术公司是创新的推动者：产业集群中从激进创新到渐进创新

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.17645/mac.7501

Ana Milojevic, Leif Ove Larsen

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Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication 斯洛伐克的法律和伦理法规及其与慎思传播的关系

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.17645/mac.7257

Ľudmila Čábyová, Peter Krajčovič, Magdaléna Švecová, Jana Radošinská, Andrej Brník, Juliána Mináriková

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Symbiosis or Precarity? Digital Platforms’ Role on Australian Digital-Native Journalism and Their Funding Models 共生还是先入为主？数字平台对澳大利亚数字本土新闻业的作用及其资助模式

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.17645/mac.7529

Andrea Carson, Denis Muller

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Can’t Fix This? Innovation, Social Change, and Solutionism in Design Thinking 无法修复？设计思维中的创新、社会变革和解决之道

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-07 DOI: 10.17645/mac.7427

Annika Richterich

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The Awkward Moment When You Agree With News Outlets That You Normally Distrust 当你同意通常不信任的新闻机构时的尴尬时刻

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-07 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i4.7153

Robin Blom

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Contextualization: A Path to Chinese Traditional News Media’s Integration Into Social Media 语境化：中国传统新闻媒体融入社交媒体之路

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.17645/mac.7429

Difan Guo, Haiyan Wang, Jing Xu

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Unraveling US Newspapers’ Digital and Print Subscriptions in the Context of Price, 2016–2022 从价格角度解读 2016-2022 年美国报纸的数字和印刷订阅量

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.17645/mac.7482

H. I. Chyi, Sun Ho Jeong

{"title":"Unraveling US Newspapers’ Digital and Print Subscriptions in the Context of Price, 2016–2022","authors":"H. I. Chyi, Sun Ho Jeong","doi":"10.17645/mac.7482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.7482","url":null,"abstract":"Despite industry-wide efforts in digitally transforming news organizations, research showed that most newspapers’ legacy products still outperformed the same newspaper’s digital offerings in terms of engagement, circulation, readership, pricing, advertising, and subscription revenue—all by a wide margin. But Covid-19 created an unprecedented scenario where the need for instant, local news updates, the fear of contacting anything tangible, and financial stress may have changed consumer behavior. To assess the state of the newspaper industry, this study analyzes short-term and long-term trends in US newspapers’ digital and print circulation before and during the pandemic. The analysis considered price, an important factor often neglected in discussions about newspaper demand. Utilizing rich industry data, this study analyzed 18 US metro daily newspapers’ circulation trends during 2016–2022. The results revealed that digital circulation increased rapidly after the onset of Covid-19 but subsequently decreased after reaching the peak in Q3 2021. Print circulation continued its rapid decline since 2016, accompanied by continuous, substantial price hikes for print subscriptions—a typical print subscription now costs over $1,000 a year. Despite circulation declines, the print edition remains the core product, with more subscribers paying far more than digital subscribers. Because of the immense price gap (6 to 1), the seemingly promising increase in digital subscriptions during Covid-19 could not generate nearly as much revenue to cover the loss on the print side, resulting in a substantial loss in total subscription revenue. The state of the US newspaper industry needs immediate attention.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138603054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Google’s Influence on Global Business Models in Journalism: An Analysis of Its Innovation Challenge 谷歌对全球新闻业商业模式的影响：创新挑战分析

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.17645/mac.7562

Alfred Hermida, M. Young

{"title":"Google’s Influence on Global Business Models in Journalism: An Analysis of Its Innovation Challenge","authors":"Alfred Hermida, M. Young","doi":"10.17645/mac.7562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.7562","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates how Google is shaping journalism innovation, particularly in business models, through an analysis of one of its global funding competitions, the Innovation Challenge. It adds to an understanding of the impact of platforms on journalism through a descriptive analysis of 354 projects funded between 2018 and 2022 in 78 countries and five regions. Grant recipients were largely for-profit journalism organizations, with a significant US focus. Projects related to audience engagement, business models and distribution dominated the published winning innovation proposals, accounting for 72.6% of funded projects. The three areas were closely connected as they were mostly related to plans to increase reader revenue. Findings suggest that the Innovation Challenge validates reader revenue as the key innovation in business models through a funding competition aligned with Google’s global industry and government relations interests. The orientation is problematic as it narrows journalism innovation to a financial issue, with audiences as the answer, even though people are largely unwilling to pay for news and journalism is considered a public good rather than simply a commercial product.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139214075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“Communal News Work” as Sustainable Business Model: Recent Print-Centric News Start-Ups in Regional Queensland 作为可持续商业模式的 "社区新闻工作"：昆士兰地区最近创办的以印刷为中心的新闻机构

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.17645/mac.7555

Harry Dugmore, Renee Barnes, Peter English, Elizabeth J. Stephens, Rosanna Natoli

{"title":"“Communal News Work” as Sustainable Business Model: Recent Print-Centric News Start-Ups in Regional Queensland","authors":"Harry Dugmore, Renee Barnes, Peter English, Elizabeth J. Stephens, Rosanna Natoli","doi":"10.17645/mac.7555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.7555","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 emergency in Australia precipitated the closure of dozens of print newspapers across Australia but, conversely, the heightened state of anxiety of the early Covid-19 period amplified the need for local information and communality. This was the impetus for a wave of print-centric newspaper start-ups. We previously examined 22 Covid-19 era start-ups in Queensland (see Barnes et al., 2022, p. 21–34) and found that their editors/publishers universally “reassert(ed) and claim(ed) more vigorously the normative values associated with community journalism as ‘social glue.’” These proprietors deployed an “affective rationale” as the foundation of their journalism and their “lean start-up” business models. We called this a “community cohesion model.” Returning to these start-ups 18 months after the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions were lifted in Queensland, we find that about 60% of these newspapers have continued operating, still drawing on deep wells of community support. They are transitioning to more conventional “newsonomics,” seeking—like the news organisations they replaced—to expand their advertising and raise other revenue, keep costs low, and expand their digital channels while remaining focussed on their core print offering. Drawing on in-depth interviews and editorial statements by editors/owners of these start-ups, as well as a close examination of advertising in the surviving newspapers, this study argues that adopting affective “hybrid” business models can be a basis for news organisations’ longer-term viability.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":"37 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139217680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Institutional Arbitrageurs: The Role of Product Managers as a Locus of Change in Journalism 机构套利者：产品经理在新闻业变革中的作用

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.17645/mac.7374

Allie Kosterich, Cindy Royal

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