Making sense of the newspaper crisis: A critical assessment of existing research and an agenda for future work

Siles, Ignacio; Boczkowski, Pablo J.

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“…15 Today, despite changes in production and distribution, ice is readily available in advanced economies. Similarly, demand for news may increase or decrease, but it will remain.…”

Section: Analogy With News Industriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cold Comfort: Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Newspaper Industry from the Twentieth-Century Ice Industry

Duffy¹,

Ling²,

Westlund³

2017

Media Industries Journal

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Abstract:First cut from frozen lakes and later manufactured on an industrial scale, ice was, in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, big business. This article uses the collapse of the ice manufacturing and distribution business in the early twentieth century as a lens through which to view the current situation among the newspaper industries of Western countries, particularly North America and Europe. Each industry involves the production and distribution of a commodity and a legacy technology that is superseded. The analogy is imperfect, but the alignments and the imperfections of

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“…15 Today, despite changes in production and distribution, ice is readily available in advanced economies. Similarly, demand for news may increase or decrease, but it will remain.…”

Section: Analogy With News Industriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cold Comfort: Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Newspaper Industry from the Twentieth-Century Ice Industry

Duffy¹,

Ling²,

Westlund³

2017

Media Industries Journal

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“…Die Gründe für derartige Restrukturierungen der Redaktionen sind jedoch nicht nur ökonomischer Natur. Sie zielen auch auf die Bewältigung der oben angesprochenen Herausforderungen, welche die enormen technologischen Entwicklungen im digitalen Bereich mit sich bringen (Siles & Boczkowski, 2012). Zudem wird eine Optimierung der Arbeitsbedingungen mittels flexiblerer Arbeitsorganisation und flacheren Hierarchien angestrebt, mit dem Ziel, die Koordination in den Redaktionen zu verbessern und eine situative Anpassung der Arbeitsprozesse (z.…”

Section: Internationale Forschung Zu Strategien Und Folgen Redaktioneunclassified

“…Als weiteres zentrales Motiv wird auch die Förderung journalistischer Qualität genannt, die durch ressort-und kanalübergreifendes Denken und Handeln zu einer Aufwertung der Medienprodukte und -inhalte führen soll (ebd.). Auf Seiten der Verlagsleitung und der Chefredaktion werden diese strukturellen Veränderungen daher auch als "Qualitätsstrategie" betrachtet (Beck et al, 2010, S. 242 tionellen Restrukturierungen überwiegend Sparpotenziale ausloten anstatt in die publizistische Qualität zu investieren Jarren, 2010;Siles & Boczkowski, 2012;Singer, 2004;Wallace, 2013 (Meier, 2010, S. 100) die eingehenden Nachrichten koordiniert und die Breaking News verarbeitet werden (García Avilés et al 2014, S. 579-580).…”

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Wandel redaktioneller Strukturen und journalistischen Handelns

Hofstetter¹,

Schönhagen²

2015

SC|M

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Zusammenfassung: Studien zur Umstrukturierung von Redaktionen in Richtung crossmedialer Produktion zeigen, dass sich einerseits die Arbeitsbedingungen verschlechtern. Andererseits schaffen konvergente Redaktionen auch Synergien, insbesondere bei der Themenplanung und Recherche. Es liegen jedoch wenige Erkenntnisse dazu vor, wie sich im Zuge des Redaktionsumbaus journalistische Arbeitsweisen und Routinen konkret verändern und in welchem Ausmaß sich journalistische Praktiken tatsächlich an veränderte Strukturen anpassen. Um die wechselseitigen Beziehungen zwischen den strukturellen Veränderungen und der alltäglichen Handlungspraxis angemessen modellieren zu können, wird die Strukturationstheorie des britischen Soziologen Anthony Giddens herangezogen, die in der Forschung zu konvergenten Newsrooms bisher noch kaum fruchtbar gemacht worden ist. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass dieser Ansatz Erklärungspotenzial bietet: Allokative Ressourcen, vor allem der Personalumfang, geben den Ausschlag dafür, inwieweit das Potenzial crossmedialer Redaktionen realisiert wird. Autoritative Ressourcen, wie Spezialwissen und persönliche Netzwerke, erweisen sich als entscheidend für die Handlungsmacht von Journalisten.Schlüsselwörter: Redaktionelle Konvergenz, journalistisches Handeln, Crossmedia, Strukturationstheorie Abstract: Research on newsroom restructuring towards cross-platform production shows that while journalists' working conditions degrade, convergence still allows for synergies, particularly with regard to the planning of topics and journalistic research. But to date little is known about the consequences for daily working routines and journalistic practices: To what extent do they change in accordance with structural changes? In order to capture this interplay between structural changes and altering -or persisting -practices we propose a new theoretical approach for the research on newsroom convergence by introducing Giddens' theory of structuration. The results reveal that this approach offers explanatory potential: allocative resources, mainly in terms of staff, are crucial factors for realizing the potentials of integrated newsrooms. Authoritative resources resulting from e.g. specialized knowledge and a network of relationships prove to be essential for journalists' ability to act.

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“…McChesney and Nichols 2010, Siles and Boczkowski 2012, Brüggemann et al 2015, Schlesinger and Doyle 2015, research and empirical data respectively in several countries (Kuhn 2011, McChesney and Nichols 2011, Lehtisaari et al 2012, Kolo and Weichert 2014, as well as on a general or international level (cf. Siles and Boczkowski 2012, Murschetz 2014, WAN-IFRA 2015, indicate that at least the traditional business model is not sustainable in the long term (see also Picard 2008, Kaye and Quinn 2010, McChesney and Pickard 2011, Picard 2011, Holm and Günzel and Ulhøi 2013.…”

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A Long-term View on the Business Model of Newspaper Publishing: International Comparison and Quantitative Modelling for Germany as Case in point

Kolo

2016

WPCC

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Although consequences are still debated, financials in several countries indicate that the traditional newspaper publishers' business is not sustainable in the long term. To overcome speculation we built a quantitative model for newspapers' profit margins to derive ten-year scenarios in a systematic way. The simulation is based on a conceptualisation of a 'business model' that can be operationalized. It was designed and tested for specific newspapers in Germany, but is based on general assumptions and of international applicability.Even with optimistic values for print-online substitution, online usage still on the rise, and mobile devices becoming widespread, additional digital revenues of newspapers' brands most likely cannot compensate for losses in print. In addition to exploiting editorial content across multiple platforms, publishers should explore options beyond these: developing 'dynamic capabilities' and possibly setting-up 'ambidextrous' organizations. (Unless, of course, they wait for subsidies to manifest or rely on an engagement of civil society for financing journalism.)

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Making sense of the newspaper crisis: A critical assessment of existing research and an agenda for future work

Cited by 230 publications

References 64 publications

Cold Comfort: Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Newspaper Industry from the Twentieth-Century Ice Industry

Cold Comfort: Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Newspaper Industry from the Twentieth-Century Ice Industry

Wandel redaktioneller Strukturen und journalistischen Handelns

A Long-term View on the Business Model of Newspaper Publishing: International Comparison and Quantitative Modelling for Germany as Case in point

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