Journalistic Passion as Commodity: A Managerial Perspective
This article focuses on the role of passion in news journalism from a managerial perspective. The analysis is based on a data set of 40,621 web-based job advertisements obtained from Journalismjobs.com, from the year 2002 to 2017. The quantitative analysis shows that passion has been on the rise as only 4% of the job advertisements in 2002 asked for “passionate” journalists, increasing to almost 16% in 2013. The authors also performed a qualitative analysis of job advertisements mentioning the word “passion” for the periods 2002–2003 and 2017. These advertisements express a shift from a normative role of journalists to journalism as an activity: when mentioned …
Comparing Innovation and Social Media Strategies in Scandinavian and US Newspapers
The article focuses on innovation and social media strategies in newspaper companies in the US and three Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway and Denmark). Many previous studies have focused on the state of journalism and media industry in single countries, although media have distinct features in different countries. Through the comparative setting, it is possible to examine the differences in media innovation strategies and study what factors affect innovation in media production, business models, sources of funding, and social media strategies. The qualitative part of the paper consists of semi-structured in-depth interviews (N = 65) with media managers and experts, which were carried …
Paikallis- ja kaupunkilehtien uudet liiketoimintamallit Pohjoismaissa
Researching News Media : Creating Societal Impact from Research for the Media Industry and Policymakers
This chapter reports on two Finnish cases based on recently commissioned research projects on media management: a study focusing on the state of media and communications policy in Finland, and a three-study project on new business models in news media (focusing on Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the United States and Germany). A public authority, the Ministry of Traffic and Communications, funded the first project as a part of a wider governmental programme with the goal of preparing a new national media policy programme. The second project was financed by an advocacy organisation for the Finnish newspaper industry together with a research foundation under the Finnish Media Federation. The proj…
Researching News Media
Uutismedian uudet liiketoimintamallit Pohjoismaissa
Media- ja viestintäpolitiikan nykytila ja mittaaminen : loppuraportti
Tämä tutkimushanke on toteutettu liikenne- ja viestintäministeriön toimeksiannosta yhteistyössä media-alan toimijoiden kanssa. Sen tavoitteena on ollut tuottaa uuden kansallisen mediapoliittisen ohjelman valmistelutyön pohjaksi monialainen yhteiskuntatieteellinen perusselvitys mediapolitiikan nykytilasta Suomessa. Aiemman sektoripohjaisen lähestymistavan sijaan tässä raportissa on haettu uutta, kokonaisvaltaisempaa tapaa hahmottaa median ja viestinnän kehitystä. Niinpä käsillä olevassa loppuraportissa nykyistä tilannetta kuvataan seitsemän media- ja viestintäpolitiikan perusperiaatteen (Picard ja Pickard 2017) sekä kansainvälisen vertailun näkökulmasta eri aineistojen avulla. Raportissa esi…
“They’re a little bit squeezed in the middle”: Strategic challenges for innovation in US Metropolitan newspaper organisations
This paper focuses on media innovation among publishers of metropolitan newspapers in the United States, in cities such as San Diego, Boston, Miami, Philadelphia and Dallas. The situation for metropolitan newspapers is difficult, as they fall between national newspapers, which can aim for extending their reach both nationally and globally, and local newspapers, which have a smaller cost structure and can cater to a more limited, and often more engaged, audience community. Our paper demonstrates that there seems to be great awareness of what can be done by US metropolitan newspapers, but managers are struggling with constraints, such as lack of financial and human resources and general organ…
Media management and economics research in Northern Europe
Researchers and academics in media economics and management with a Northern European affiliation have played a major role in the development of the field and in creating strong international networks, including The World Media Economics and Management Conference (WMEMC) and European Media Management Association (emma). The chapter provides an overview of media management and economics research in this geographical region. peerReviewed