Measuring cross-ownership and its effects in newspaper publishing industry

Cross-ownership has gained more attention since the Millennium. The effects of cross-ownership have been incorporated into standard game theoretical models, altering the traditional concentration measures and hence also the relationship between concentration and profitability. Empirical research on the effects of crossownership on concentration and profitability is limited. This article compares the traditional concentration index with the one modified for cross-ownership in the Finnish newspaper publishing industry. With a dataset that covers all daily newspaper publishers between years 1950 and 2016, we show that cross-ownership is reflected in the modified empirical concentration measures. We also show how acknowledging the two-sidedness of a market affects the profitability measures originally developed for traditional market

Press Subsidies and Business Performance of Newspaper Publishing in Three Nordic Media Welfare States

The Nordic countries have been regarded as so-called "“media welfare states." Despite the large amount of public money used on press subsidies over the decades in the Nordic countries, there is not much academic research on the financial performance of the newspaper publishing industry in these countries. This study examines the "media welfare state" approach to public support for newspapers and the financial performance of newspaper companies in three Nordic countries: Finland, Sweden, and Norway. Our data consists of the key financial figures of newspaper publishing companies in the aforementioned countries from 2005 to 2019. Based on our analysis, we argue that direct press subsidies in Sweden and Norway have not been able to prevent a decrease in the number of titles and, importantly, have resulted in a number of subsidy-dependent news outlets unable to survive on their own income. By contrast, the Finnish newspaper publishing industry has been in a better financial situation in terms of almost all indicators and throughout the review period, despite Finland abandoning direct press subsidies in the 1990s

Paikallis- ja kaupunkilehtien uudet liiketoimintamallit Pohjoimaissa

Uutismedian uudet liiketoimintamallit Pohjoismaissa -tutkimuksessa keväällä 2016 havaittiin, että digitaalinen siirtymä tuo paljon haasteita sanomalehtijulkaisijoille Ruotsissa, Norjassa ja Tanskassa. Kehitystyössä vaikuttavat "kaksikätisyyden" (ambidexterity) tai kaksilla markkinoilla toimimisen haasteet, kun toisella kädellä täytyy pitää huolta printtitoiminnasta ja toisella kehittää uusia digitaalisia tuotteita ja palveluita. Tässä jatkotutkimuksessa tarkastelemme, miten nämä haasteet näkyvät erityisesti paikallis- ja kaupunkilehdissä1, ja minkälaisia konkreettisia kokeiluja uusista liiketoimintamalleista on meneillään. Uskomme että nämä kokeilut ovat luonteva vertailukohta myös suomalaisille paikallis- ja kaupunkilehdille: Onko Ruotsissa, Norjassa ja Tanskassa jo kenties löydetty ratkaisuja niihin keskeisiin ongelmiin, joiden kanssa paikallinen uutismedia painii? Tai onko pinnalla muita ilmiöitä, joihin Pohjoismaissa jo kehitellään ratkaisuja? Tutkimusraportti koostuu selvityksestä media-alan yleisestä tilanteesta Norjassa, Ruotsissa ja Tanskassa, verraten sitä Suomeen sekä haastattelututkimuksesta Norjassa, Ruotsissa ja Tanskassa. Tutkimuksen on rahoittanut Sanomalehtien Liitto. Tutkimuksen toteuttajina ovat Viestinnän tutkimuskeskus CRC (Helsingin yliopisto), Brahea-keskus (Turun yliopisto) ja Jyväskylän yliopisto. Hankkeeseen osallistuvat tutkijat ovat Katja Lehtisaari (HY), Mikko Grönlund (TY), Carl-Gustav Lindén (HY) ja Mikko Villi (JY).</p

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 within the context of personal character, the desired temperament of journalists has given way to descriptions of desired behaviour. The normative focus on journalism as an ideal has decreased while the focus on performance-that journalists should feel passionate about reporting and storytelling-has risen dramatically. In the texts, passion emerges as something that can be applied in a range of contexts as a strategic resource. The findings point to commodification of feelings and exploitation of emotional labour in journalism

New business models of Nordic news media

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Nordic local and free newspapers in search for new business models

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The ethics of journalism challenged : The blurring boundary between local journalism and communications

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