Taking the paper out of news: A case study of Taloussanomat, Europe's first online-only newspaper

Using in-depth interviews, newsroom observation, and internal documents, this case study presents and analyses changes that have taken place at Finnish financial daily Taloussanomat since it stopped printing on 28 December 2007 to focus exclusively on digital delivery via the Web, email, and mobile. It reveals the savings that can be achieved when a newspaper no longer prints and distributes a physical product; but also the revenue lost from subscriptions and print advertising. The consequences of a newspaper's decision to go online-only are examined as they relate to its business model, website traffic, and editorial practice. The findings illustrate the extent to which the medium rather than the content it carries determines news consumption patterns, show the differing attention a newspaper and its online substitute command, and reveal the changes to working patterns journalists can expect in the online-only environment

On Digital Distribution’s Failure to Solve Newspapers’ Existential Crisis: Symptoms, Causes, Consequences and Remedies

This chapter examines some of the symptoms and causes of the crisis facing newspapers via analyses of their finances and of audience measures. The consequences of the crisis, and whether there are any realistic remedies, are also considered, both in relation to journalism as a product and to the institutions, such as newspapers, that have traditionally produced it. We start with an analysis of the financial performance of multiplatform news publishers in Australia, Europe and the USA, which leads us to conclude that digital distribution is not reversing newspapers’ decline, and raises questions about the support for journalism in the long term. Next, some of the consequences of the declines that have already taken place are discussed. Moving from consequences to possible remedies, the chapter focuses on two areas. Firstly, media policy, and secondly, journalism as a product: what news should be produced and how it should be delivered. Another strand of the chapter concerns audience measures. They are used to help explain newspapers’ continuing dependency on print revenues, and are understood, depending on their constitution and use, as both a party to the crisis and as an able assistant in its alleviation

2018 JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report

Summary This eighth JMAD New Zealand media ownership report observes a considerable shift in New Zealand media ownership. In 2018, Australian Nine Entertainment took over Stuff’s parent company Fairfax Media. The report notes that the impact of this merger on the future ownership of Stuff and its New Zealand media holdings remain unknown. In 2018, New Zealand’s print newspaper market had already shrunk considerably after Stuff closed more than 35% of its print newspapers and announced additional cuts in community papers. During 2018, the New Zealand media market remained at least partly competitive. In September, the Court of Appeal rejected the NZME-Stuff merger, and the two companies continued their duopoly and dominance in print and online news. In November, MediaWorks announced that it had signed a conditional merger agreement with Australian outdoor advertising company QMS. If the deal goes through, QMS will have a substantial shareholding in MediaWorks. However, its current owner Oaktree Capital Management will maintain the majority shareholding in the merged entity. New Zealand media ownership: key trends and events • Australian Nine becoming the largest owner of Stuff • NZME & Stuff merger denied and abandoned • MediaWorks plans to merge with Australian QMS • Trust owned, non-profit media outlet Crux emergesJMA

Google, Facebook and New Zealand News Media: The Problem of Platform Dependency

About the data in this report: This report utilises data from two analytics companies: SimilarWeb and BirdSong Analytics. The findings of the report are dependent on the quality and accuracy of the data offered by these companies. This method was chosen because there is no publicly available data about news companies’ distribution and engagement on Facebook; news companies do not report details about their website traffic numbers or sources of their traffic. The author of the report believes that the lack of transparency in this information is hindering our understanding of the relations between news companies and platforms. Without news companies’ participation it is therefore in the public interest to utilise other data sources which are available for this kind of research. The downside of using third party data is the researcher does not have control over data collection and what is included in raw data sets. However, manually collecting this data, while possible, would be an onerous task and best suited to the bots created by analytic companies. General data about Facebook news consumption etc. was gathered from multiple sources such as government and corporate documents as well as industry reports and news articles. Website traffic data was sourced from the publicly available data of website traffic analytics company SimilarWeb. Of the freely accessible data some information, such as visits from social media to websites, were only available for a limited time period (3-6 months), and therefore long-term analysis was not possible. Also, SimilarWeb data does not cover all New Zealand media companies, for example it does not offer traffic related data for Radio New Zealand (RNZ). The data concerning news companies’ social media postings, content and engagement was sourced from the social media analytics company BirdSong Analytics. As the company’s data and analysis are paid services, data sets were bought for five companies and their news sites, including NZME (news publisher), Stuff (news publisher), RNZ (public radio broadcaster), The Spinoff (digital media outlet) and TVNZ (state-owned commercial television broadcaster).AUT Policy Observator

JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report 2019

No abstract.AUT research center for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD

Meritaimenien radiotelemetriaseuranta Tenojoen vesistössä:taimenien vaelluskäyttäytyminen ja levittäytyminen

Tutkielma perustuu Riista- ja kalatalouden tutkimuslaitoksen RKTL:n vuosina 2011–2013 toteutettuun tutkimushankkeeseen ”Voisiko Tenojoen kalastuskautta pidentää? Meritaimenen biologia ja hyödyntämismahdollisuudet”. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää meritaimenten ekologiaa, vaelluskäyttäytymistä ja levittäytymistä Tenojoen vesistössä radiotelemetriapaikannusten ja suomunäytteistä saatavien tietojen avulla. Yhtenä sen osa-alueena tutkittiin, millainen pyyntipaine taimeneen nykyisellään kohdistuu ja voisiko Tenojoen kalastuskautta pidentää. Tutkimuksessa saatiin selvyyttä sekä sukukypsymättömien että lisääntymisikäisten meritaimenten vaelluskäyttäytymisestä Tenojoessa. Tutkimuksessa havaittiin, että taimenen kutuvaellus Tenovuonolla kestää pääosin kaksi vuotta. Ennen ensimmäistä kutuaan kalat tekevät 2–3 vaellusta meren syönnösalueiden ja Ala-Tenon talvehtimisalueiden välillä. Sukukypsyyden saavutettuaan ne nousevat syönnökseltä Tenojoen yläosiin talvehtimaan, josta ne nousevat seuraavana kesänä kutualueilleen kuteakseen syksyllä. Kuteneet talvikot palaavat Tenojoen pääuomaan talvehtimaan, ja palaavat seuraavana kesänä merelle syönnökselle. Taimenten kutu tapahtui elo-syyskuussa, lisääntymisalueiden sijaitessa pääosin Tenojoen latvajoen Inarijoen pienissä sivujoissa. Osa merkityistä taimenista vietti koko merkintää seuranneen seurantajakson merellä. Tutkimuksessa havaittiin taimeneen jo nykyisellään kohdistuvan kohtuullista kalastuspainetta. Tutkimuksen kaloista 21 % jäi kolmivuotisen tutkimusjakson aikana saaliiksi. Kalastuskauden pidentäminen tarkoittaisi pyyntipaineen lisääntymistä myös lisääntymisjakson jälkeen, jolloin saaliiksi jäisi myös samana vuonna kuteneita yksilöitä, jotka olisivat tulevaisuudessakin arvokkaita lisääntyjiä. Kalastuskauden pidentäminen tuskin olisi ekologisesti kestävää ja jatkotutkimuksissa tulisi erityisesti selvittää meritaimenen populaation geneettistä rakennetta ja eri sivujokien kantojen perimää

Trust in News in New Zealand

This is the first JMAD report from the centre’s ongoing research project into the level of trust New Zealanders have in the news. It is produced in collaboration with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. With permission from the institute’s researchers, we have used the same survey questions and comparable sampling method they use in their annual Digital News Report (http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/). This allows international comparisons between levels of trust in the news in Aotearoa New Zealand and those 38 other countries covered by the Reuters project. While our survey was conducted during the coronavirus pandemic, and as New Zealanders were preparing for a national Covid-19 lockdown in late March 2020, it is impossible to know how coronavirus coverage and the lockdown may have affected trust in news. The survey data for our report was collected by New Zealand online market research company Horizon Research Ltd. The production of this report was funded by the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), and it has ethics approval from the AUT’s Ethics Committee (AUTEC).AUT research center for Journalism, Media and Democrac

Diversity in Reporting? A Study of the News coverage of the 2016 New Zealand Local Body Elections

This study offers an analysis of print news media coverage of the 2016 New Zealand Local Body elections, focusing on reportage around issues of diversity. This study builds upon a prior project by the Media Observatory group at Auckland University of Technology of the 2014 New Zealand General election that also examined issues of diversity. The function of news media in democratic societies is crucial. For a nation-state that is as cosmopolitan and diverse as New Zealand, issues of inclusivity and representation are critical considerations for news media. This study employs content analysis and examined news coverage of local body elections and analysed 198 Local Elections newspaper articles from the eight weeks prior to 8 October 2016 in one nationwide newspaper and four Auckland community newspapers. It focuses on The New Zealand Herald, East & Bays Courier, Manukau Courier, North Shore Times, Central Leader and the Western Leader. The analysis of the 2016 Local Election news coverage demonstrates a predominant focus on the mayoral candidates to the detriment of other aspects of local election voting, and a focus on campaign strategy over social issues impacting the electorate. The Local Election coverage placed particularly strong focus on “youth” as a social group in contrast to other classified groups such as Māori, Asians, Pacific Islanders, the elderly, and dependents. The Local Election coverage also represented a diversity of social issues, from housing, transport, to business and economy, environment, and law and order. The coverage provided ample space for words and perspectives from the electoral front-runners, local government representatives, and for public voices but it also paid minimal attention to non-mayoral voting categories, non-front runner candidates, and non-Auckland geographical locations, although this latter point was perhaps unsurprising, given the newspapers sampled in the study