The Business of Digital News

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-136
Author(s):  
Damon Kiesow
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Significant Alignment ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Organizational Roles

In news organizations today, editorial strategy is business strategy. The two are entirely intertwined. Understanding either requires studying both. With the shift to digital, the process of publishing the news has transitioned from a series of loosely coupled, sequential, and periodic production tasks to a set of complex, overlapping, and stochastic outputs requiring significant alignment and coordination to succeed. For journalists, these changes are challenging newsroom norms and driving an embrace of human-centered design practices and product thinking. For academics it is an opportunity to study the remaking of organizational roles and relationships in the business of digital news, an effort that is still in its infancy.

Evaluating the Usability of University Waste-Sorting Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 2046-2050
Author(s):  
Nathan Dumessa ◽  
Katie Lucaites ◽  
Hannah Solini ◽  
Jeremy Lopez ◽  
Paige Lawton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Testing ◽  
Experimental Protocol ◽  
Clemson University ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Testing Methodology ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Competitive Price ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
New System

Recycling is a widely adopted practice that can reduce waste in landfills and increase profits for companies, corporations, and universities, such as Clemson, that sell recyclable materials. For these materials to be sold at a competitive price, however, they must be uncontaminated. This is a considerable barrier for Clemson University because users’ knowledge and experience with recycling do not align with Clemson University’s expected recycling practices. In an effort to bridge this gap, we followed human-centered design practices to generate and test prototypes of new system signage. We found that users were more accurate and confident in their sorting behavior when interacting with the new signage. Users also perceived the new signage as more usable than the old signage. In addition to these findings, the results of this research include a user testing methodology and experimental protocol that can be implemented in other contexts where large populations sort waste.

The culture of free: Construct explication and democratic ramifications for readers’ willingness to pay for public affairs news

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492091343
Author(s):  
Manuel Goyanes ◽  
Marton Demeter ◽  
Laura de Grado
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Free Competition ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Depth Interviews

The homogenization and commoditization of news have risen since the emergence of the Internet, but have sharply increased in recent years due to economic constraints on news organizations and journalists’ labor conditions. This article explores readers’ perceptions and attitudes toward the economic and informative value of online news in particular, and toward the Internet as a means of news dissemination in general. Drawing upon 50 in-depth interviews with respondents from Spain aged 18–65 years, we conceptualize the lack of readers’ inclinations to pay for digital news as a culture of free and explore its main dimensions. Specifically, the culture of free is a strong orientation to considering news as a public good that must be free of charge, rooted in customs/habits of free consumption on the Internet over decades, fueled by free competition, subtended by advertising, and a lack of interest in the news more generally. Despite the fact that the digital versions might be theoretically considered as inferior, we argue that both products (print vs online) are equally valuable (economically and informatively) and the only divergence lies in their format and thus in their price.

Journalism and Its Audience

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen ◽  
Allaina Kilby
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Television News ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
News Production ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Technological Developments

The relationship between journalism and its audience has undergone significant transformations from the earliest newspapers in the 18th century to 21st-century digital news. The role of the audience (and journalists’ conceptions of it) has been shaped by economic, social, and technological developments. Though the participation of the audience has always been important to news organizations, it has taken very different forms across times, genres, and platforms. Early newspapers drew on letters from their publics as vital sources of information and opinion, while radio established a more intimate relationship with its audience through its mode of address. Though television news genres may not have emphasized audience engagement, research on the medium was heavily invested in understanding how it affected its audience. The rise of the Internet as a platform for journalism has represented a significant turning point in several respects. First, it has challenged conventional hierarchies of news production and value by facilitating user-generated content and social media, enhancing opportunities for audience contributions. This presents new opportunities for engagement but also challenges journalists’ professional identities, compelling them to assert their authority and skill sets. Further, digital journalism has led to the rise of the quantified audience, leading to the increased role of metrics in driving the behavior of journalists. As the audience and its behavior are shifting, so are the practices of journalism. The two actors—journalists and audiences—remain interlocked in what may be a troubled marriage, but one which is structurally compelled to change and grow over time.

scholarly journals A comparison of news databases’ coverage of digital-native news

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-332
Author(s):  
Stacy Gilbert ◽  
Alexander Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations

Digital-native news has become widely read and award-winning sources for news, and it is important to understand if news aggregator databases provide access to these emerging news outlets. This study compares four news aggregators’ coverage of popular and Pulitzer Prize finalists’ digital-native news organizations to print-native news outlets. It found only 14 out of 47 born-digital news organizations are available in the aggregators, and of those outlets, only four have a 100% date coverage.

scholarly journals Digital news start-ups in Spain: symbolic and social capital as drivers of success

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 393-409
Author(s):  
Terese Mendiguren Galdospin ◽  
Irati Agirreazkuenaga Onaindia ◽  
Koldo Meso Ayerdi
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Start Ups

Ongoing downsizing in the media sector has sparked a new start-up culture in the field of journalism. Over the past few years an increasing number of news organizations seeking to leverage social and symbolic rather than financial capital and cultivate employee as well as audience loyalty have entered the market (Wagemans, Witschge and Deuze, 2016). This paper examines El Diario (eldiario.es) and El Confidencial (elconfidencial.com). Qualitative methods involving the on-site observation in their newsrooms and semi-structured interviews with their journalists were employed. Findings indicate that both see themselves as alternative news providers whose emphasis El Diario draws heavily upon the symbolic capital of its founder Ignacio Escolar, El Confidencial, has banked primarily on its social capital.

scholarly journals Strategie wzornicze a praktyki projektowe w projektowaniu opakowań

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 157-171
Author(s):  
Mariusz Wszołek
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Package Design ◽  
Packaging Design ◽  
General Design ◽  
Design Practices

This article is about general approaches to designing packages in addition to design strategy, communi-cation strategy and business strategy. Combining different design practices is not an endless repository in this article according to package design — it is just a first attempt at describing general design prac-tices. This article is more of an introduction to strategic packaging design. 

‘I stopped reading newspapers because of the internet!’: News consumption behaviour of youth in Greece and Turkey

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eylem Yanardağoğlu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Internet News ◽  
Consumption Behaviour ◽  
General Decline ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Interpretative Approach ◽  
Tuning Out

Digitalization of news organizations and other traditional media presents an ongoing struggle. Although there is a general decline in news consumption in all ages, youth in particular seems to be ‘tuning out’ of news globally. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report published in 2016 by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, announced that news accessed via social media sites increased in Europe (average 46 per cent) where Greece and Turkey were high adoption countries with 74 and 73 per cent usage rates, respectively. These numbers dropped in the 2018 report to 66 per cent in Turkey and 71 per cent in Greece. This research explores the factors that influence college students’ news consumption behaviour in Greece and Turkey through an interpretative approach. Data collection was done in 2017 in Athens and Istanbul with voluntary participation of 40 college students who study in public and private universities.

scholarly journals Endangered but not too late : the state of digital news preservation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward McCain ◽  
Mara Nell ◽  
Van Malssen Kara ◽  
Carner Dorothy ◽  
Reilly Bernard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Long Tail ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Content ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Digital Asset ◽  
Long Tail Phenomenon

"What we found in this research is that news organizations are saving digital news content to at least a limited extent, one that often depends on the kind of technologies where news content resides, their purpose, and other key factors. We found that the degree to which your existing content is accessible and useful depends not only on the technologies used, but also on your policies, if any, about what is saved. Other factors that affect access to content include the workflows used to assemble and store content, the metadata that’s saved with your content--or missing depending on how it is managed--whether or not you have staff dedicated to preservation work, and how well content translates when you undergo a transition from one technology platform to another, an inevitable fact of life in today’s publishing industry. News organizations that use either an archive or digital asset management (DAM) system of some kind have the most control of the content used to post, publish, broadcast or stream the news. They are also in the best position to find and access past content, understand its origins and licensing rights, reuse it for new products, tap it for newsroom research, publish it in related content links, and take full advantage of the long-tail phenomenon by reselling to the public or research community. ..."--Findings summar

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