News as a Public Good: Cooperative Ownership, Price Commitments, and the Success of the Associated Press

Shmanske, Stephen

doi:10.2307/3115923

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“…Una de las primeras agencias informativas, Associated Press (AP), fue fundada bajo la forma de cooperativa en 1846 por cinco diarios de Nueva York para proveerse de información sobre la Guerra de México. Según Shmanske (1986), su estatuto cooperativo y sin ánimo de lucro, en el que la propiedad corresponde a las empresas que la utilizan y comparten sus costes, supuso una ventaja frente a sus competidoras. Así, la agencia cooperativa es "una institución inusual", en la que editoras que normalmente son competidoras" cooperan en la provisión de noticias que sus competidores también pueden usar (Allen, 2006: 209).…”

Section: Agencias Cooperativasunclassified

Co-operatives, media and journalism

Durban

2023

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Private ownership is central to the contemporary history of the media, but other models of governance have thrived on the margins of the industry. Recent shifts in the media sector, caused by a multi-factorial crisis, spur interest in these alternative structures, among which the co-operative stands out. This article identifies and characterizes the different types of co-operatively-owned journalistic organizations. Using the scoping review as a research method, we collect, select and examine academic and institutional texts. As a result of this analysis, we infer five types of co-op in the media business, which respond to the needs of a variety of actors: journalists, media, the public and the co-operative movement. Thus, the article contributes to conceptual clarification and provides a theoretical basis for the emerging field of study of co-operatives in media and journalism.

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Section: Agencias Cooperativasunclassified

Co-operatives, media and journalism

Durban

2023

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“…Journalists have routinely worked with others in the newsroom such as photographers, subeditors, and editors to produce news. In the nineteenth century, media outlets saw benefits in pooling resources to form the first wire service (Shmanske 1986). Notwithstanding such partnerships, competition between media outlets was the norm of newsrooms over the past two centuries.…”

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The Digital Spotlight: Applying a Connective Action Framework of Political Protest to Global Watchdog Reporting

Carson

2020

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Digital technologies have transformed advertising markets causing disruption to the funding of traditional media. Yet, paradoxically, the digital age also provides new opportunities for journalism, enabling innovations in investigative reporting on a global scale. However, the transition of investigative journalism from a single newsroom to a multi-newsroom model—involving large-scale transnational collaboration, use of social media networks to extend audience reach and impact, and data journalism to analyze mass data leaks—is understudied. This paper adapts a conceptual framework usually applied to large-scale political protest movements to large-scale collaborative investigative journalism. It aims to show how Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg’s “logic of connective action” can be adapted to understand different forms of networked action such as global collaborative watchdog reporting. Bennett and Segerberg identify three distinct types of large-scale protest formations and this paper contends that these can be approximated to fit different types of large-scale transnational collaborative investigative journalism. Using a case study methodology and interviews with investigative journalists, the article develops a framework to differentiate between types of large-scale investigative collaborations. The framework helps to understand differences between the collaborative investigative reporting efforts of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), WikiLeaks, and Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency (NSA) leaks. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this article seeks to advance theoretical understandings of global watchdog reporting in the digital age.

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“…Local newspapers could not afford to cover all of the stories that their readers wanted to read, yet the ease with which news stories can be appropriated served as a disincentive to invest in reporting-a classic free-rider dilemma. The solution was a not-for-profit cooperative, owned by the participant news organizations, which partnered originally with Western Union (Shmanske 1986). Cooperative members could both upload material that they originated locally to the wire service and download material that other members produced from the wire service.…”

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Governing Knowledge Commons -- Introduction & Chapter 1

Madison¹,

Frischmann²,

Strandburg³

2017

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“Knowledge commons” describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing and, in some cases, creation, of information, science, knowledge, data, and other types of intellectual and cultural resources. It is the subject of enormous recent interest and enthusiasm with respect to policymaking about innovation, creative production, and intellectual property. Taking that enthusiasm as its starting point, Governing Knowledge Commons argues that policymaking should be based on evidence and a deeper understanding of what makes commons institutions work. It offers a systematic way to study knowledge commons, borrowing and building on Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize-winning research on natural resource commons. It proposes a framework for studying knowledge commons that is adapted to the unique attributes of knowledge and information, describing the framework in detail and explaining how to put it into context both with respect to commons research and with respect to innovation and information policy. Eleven detailed case studies apply and discuss the framework exploring knowledge commons across a wide variety of scientific and cultural domains.

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News as a Public Good: Cooperative Ownership, Price Commitments, and the Success of the Associated Press

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Co-operatives, media and journalism

Co-operatives, media and journalism

The Digital Spotlight: Applying a Connective Action Framework of Political Protest to Global Watchdog Reporting

Governing Knowledge Commons -- Introduction & Chapter 1

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News as a Public Good: Cooperative Ownership, Price Commitments, and the Success of the Associated Press

Cited by 5 publications

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The Digital Spotlight: Applying a Connective Action Framework of Political Protest to Global Watchdog Reporting

Governing Knowledge Commons -- Introduction &amp; Chapter 1

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