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The new dynamics of the digital media business are driving publishers away from advertising-based business models and toward user payments. In that context, many of them are rediscovering that supposedly obsolete distribution channel, email. Email has the power to create an intimate relationship between a publication and its users. That relationship can translate into loyalty, […]
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Picard: News organizations need to focus on creating value for users Now that Google, Facebook, and other tech platforms have taken away most of their ad revenue, news publishers are realizing they need to get revenues from users to stay afloat. Well, good luck with that. Most of the paywalls or freemium products they have […]
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How should a media executive manage the business during a time of disruptive technological change? Alfonso Nieto attempted to answer that question in his book “Letters to a newspaper publisher,” written in 1987 when newsrooms in Spain were moving from typewriters to computers. His comments have acute relevance today. In this letter to a fictitious […]
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How should a media executive manage the business during a time of disruptive technological change? Alfonso Nieto attempted to answer that question in his book “Letters to a newspaper publisher,” written in 1987 when newsrooms in Spain were moving from typewriters to computers. Nieto was one of the pioneers in the discipline of media economics, […]
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Cees van Riel is an internationally known scholar and consultant who has spent much of his career studying how to measure the reputation of organizations and use the data for better decision-making. During a recent chat with faculty at the University of Navarra, he talked about how a growing body of research links the financial […]
Read More »This post is part of a study that identifies 20 media organizations from 16 countries and four regions –Eastern and Central Europe, Western Europe, Latin America, and the United States– that have developed sustainable business models for high-quality journalism. This list is by no means exclusive. The examples were chosen to present a variety […]
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Between fines and recovered funds, journalists get results Lately a couple of us here at the University of Navarra have been looking for models of high-quality journalism that are sustainable. As it turns out, many of the best news organizations that are thriving are doing investigative journalism. Readers like this type of journalism, which holds […]
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