Who are the winners in the contemporary news industry? Where do the Google and Facebook payments for the news go and how they shape the news industry? In a new article for Digital Journalism, I argue that during the 2010-2020 news media industry became dominated by a handful of large news publishers, and the readerContinue reading “Google and Facebook news payments go to the strongest players”
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New Zealanders are wary of misinformation
For two years, I have been researching trust in news in New Zealand with my colleague Greg Treadwell at AUT. Our research is done in collaboration with Reuters Institute for Study of Journalism. Our new article about trust – a slippery concept – is published in Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, andContinue reading “New Zealanders are wary of misinformation”
Trust in news in New Zealand erodes
Our second Trust in News in New Zealand report was published on April 29, 2021. The report is produced by the AUT research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD), and it is authored by me and Dr Greg Treadwell. The report finds that the trust in news in New Zealand dropped in 2021, onlyContinue reading “Trust in news in New Zealand erodes”
Honorable mention in Digital Journalism’s Awards
In early 2021, my article “Paying attention to attention: a conceptual framework for studying news reader revenue models related to platforms” gained a honorable mention as part of Digital Journalism’s 2020 Outstanding Article Award. According to the journal, the article is “insightful, rigorous and targets issue pertinent to our times.”
Quite a media storm….
The 2021 really has had an interesting start. Across the Tasman Sea, in Australia, the government is in a process of implementing a new law – media bargaining code – which requires Google and Facebook to negotiate with news companies about compensation for their content. To pre-empt some more drastic measures, Google has signed multipleContinue reading “Quite a media storm….”
NZ media survived the Covid-19 with a little help
On December 7, 2020, AUT research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) published its 10th New Zealand media ownership report which I co-edited. The report is publicly available on the research centre’s website. The report shows that the country’s media survived the Covid-pandemic “with a little help from friends — and even frenemies: theContinue reading “NZ media survived the Covid-19 with a little help”
Trust in news high in New Zealand
In April 2020, together with my college Dr Greg Treadwell, we published the first Trust in News in New Zealand report which was produced in collaboration with the Reuters Institute for Study for Journalism. The report was published by the AUT research center for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD). In our report we found thatContinue reading “Trust in news high in New Zealand”
The future of NZ media in the hands of the government & private equity
New Zealand media sector is facing the biggest structural changes in a decade as the whole news ecosystem is in serious trouble. This means that New Zealand is likely to see shrinking number of media companies in 2020, the latest JMAD New Zealand media ownership report 2019 finds. The New Zealand government is mulling anContinue reading “The future of NZ media in the hands of the government & private equity”
Paying attention to attention – conceptual article
My article, titled “Paying attention to attention: A conceptual framework for studying news reader revenue models related to platforms” has been published in Digital Journalism journal. The journal is peer reviewed, high-quality academic journal which is among top ten academic journals in the field of communication studies (ranked 9th in Scimago ratings). I was invited to writeContinue reading “Paying attention to attention – conceptual article”
Dancing dangerous tango with Facebook
Facebook’s news tab has created lots of headlines, and not surprisingly, I was also interviewed about the topic by the National Business Review (NZ). The interview is behind a paywall, but here are couple of my snippets: “Myllylahti said that she didn’t understand why publishers were “dancing this tango” given Facebook’s history of broken promises,Continue reading “Dancing dangerous tango with Facebook”
Dr Merja Myllylahti 