"According to this paper, many media businesses lack management skills and experience in developing effective business models. "Compounding this is a lack of media development assistance targeted to media managers, the expansion of economic constraints on media businesses, and a lack of access to in
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vestment capital", says the executive summary, and concludes that "this naiveté about the business side poses a significant risk to the sustainability of independent news media. At the same time that audiences are growing, they are also increasingly decoupled from advertising, traditionally the largest and most easily accessible form of revenue supporting news media. Whether a market is growing or declining, this trend threatens to undermine the ability of independent media to fund news reporting." (commbox)
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"El libro comienza con una introducción histórica para entender la transformación desde la producción artesana de cultura a la era del consumo masivo de cine, teatro, música, libros, radio y televisión, museos… Ya en la actualidad, se defi ne y delimita el sector, estudiando el funcionamient
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o de cada una de las “industrias culturales y creativas”, y midiendo su importancia relativa en el conjunto de la economía españolaDespués se analiza el peso del español en cada una de las áreas culturales y de entretenimiento." (Cubierta del libro)
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"This study provides an in-depth treatment of the global newspaper publishing market and its evolution, with a particular view on the development of online news and related challenges. It assesses online news consumption patterns and new online news value networks, compared with the traditional news
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paper value chain. It shows that the economics of news production and distribution has been radically altered, in particular in the context of the economic crisis which has accelerated structural changes. After very profitable years, newspaper publishers in most OECD countries face declining advertising revenues and signficant reductions in titles and circulation. The economic crisis has amplified this downward development. However, the data and the large country-by-country differences, for instance, currently do not lend themselves to make the case for “the death of the newspaper”, in particular if non-OECD countries and potential positive effects of the economic recovery are taken into account. Importantly, the study shows that many promising forms of news creation and distribution are being experimented with, some of which are empowered by increasing technological sophistication and resulting decentralised forms of content creation and broad-based participation [...] More recently newspaper websites have seen strong growth in their own pages, with large newspapers reporting several million unique visitors to their pages per month, increasingly including readers from abroad, a radical shift from national patterns of established newspapers." (Summary, page 6)
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"International media development and media support is often structured and planned without taking into account the current and future position of media as economic subjects and their long term sustainability and development opportunities. Sida’s policy to engage and involve private sector actors i
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n international development efforts and WAN-IFRA’s unique position as a media trade organisation with a human rights mandate, has resulted in a partnership between Sida and WAN-IFRA to work together in advancing media development and press freedom worldwide [...] This event is the beginning of an initiative to establish a systematic and holistic approach to assistance to financially viable independent media in developing markets." (Foreword)
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"The global economic downturn has affected countless businesses across the region, forcing them to slash costs, lay off employees, and reduce output. Media businesses are no exception. However, when media businesses are hit, it is not just their turnover that suffers: their primary function, the del
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ivery of news to citizens, feels the impact too. To explore the impact of the crisis on independent media and accountability journalism, the Media Program carried out a study in 18 post-socialist countries heavily hit by the crisis: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The study looks at media performance in 2009 compared with the previous three years, explores the cost-saving measures taken by significant news carriers, and the effects of these measures on output, breadth and depth of coverage, scope of investigative reporting, and opportunities for open public debate." (OSI website)
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"This report created by Justin O'Connor, Professor of the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, gives a thorough overview of literature that deals with the relationship between culture and economics that lie at the heart of this terminology. This acco
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unt takes a sixty-year trip, starting from the culture industry, leading through the cultural industries, and ending at the creative industries. It explores the history of the idea of the cultural industries, and how it has changed and developed the current interest in the creative economy. The work focuses on the conceptual ideas behind thinking in this area, and lays out the reasons behind the shifts in terminology and policy. The second edition of the report presents some additional reflections on the implications of the internet and the mobile communication technologies on the creative industries." (www.culturelink.org, September 27, 2011)
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"With its key indicators, FOCUS 2010 gives you a complete overview of the fi lm industry worldwide, and highlights new and up-and-coming areas such as Latin America and the Middle East. It is an indispensable guide to understanding the undercurrents and changes in the international market, in a cont
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ext where it has become vital to anticipate changes as they happen, to adjust strategies." (Editorial)
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"This book is a critical study of the political economy of communications in India. It explores the ways in which contexts, policies, and processes at national and international levels shape media structures and studies how a political economy-inspired approach can be used to understand both media d
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ominance and resistance. The author explores aspects of colonial political economy and how it has shaped the structure of media in India and in many other countries. It also discusses liberalization, privatization, and media politics in contemporary India. Divided into three sections—structures, means, and resistance—the chapters focus on both the electronic and the print media." (Publisher description)
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"The Media Economy analyzes the media industries and their activities from macro- to micro-levels, using concepts and theories to demonstrate the role the media plays in the economy as a whole. Representing a rapidly changing and evolving environment, this text breaks new ground through its analysis
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from two unique perspectives: examining the media industries from a holistic perspective by analyzing how they function across different levels of society (global, national, household, and individual); looking at the key forces (technology, globalization, regulation, and social aspects) constantly evolving and influencing the media industries. It includes examples from both developed and developing nations, as well as data and trends from these countries, offering a broad arena of study." (Publisher description)
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"Here the media's development impact is presented using five closely intermingled influences: plurality and transparency - the contributions that a plural media environment makes to good governance, transparency, and the functioning of markets (economic and political) which can be seen as the media'
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s political economy role; behavioral - the media's contribution to inspiring beneficial changes in the behaviors of individuals, groups, and organizations; infrastructure and platform - compelling content is essential for and the main driver of investment in new convergent broadband infrastructure and platforms, which hold the potential for transformational development; economic - the media provide many jobs, especially in smaller-size enterprises; trade - trade in media, mainly audio-visual products - is substantial but asymmetric, certain trade barriers restrain investments and limit opportunities for developing country exports, and so the media's potential contribution to development." (Page 5)
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