What drives the convergence between media organisations in this digital age? What kind of convergence are we seeing beyond the ownership convergence? My academic paper, to be shortly published in the peer reviewed academic journal MEDIANZ, investigates different kind of convergences in New Zealand media. The paper argues that media corporations form tactical alliances andContinueContinue reading “What drives media alliances?”
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Digital distribution not solving problems for newspapers
A forthcoming book chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies, written together with Neil Thurman, Robert G. Picard and Arne H. Krumsvik, argues that newspapers’ online experiments have not reversed their falling fortunes. We believe that while news publishers report strong increases in their digital revenues, one needs to “be carefulContinueContinue reading “Digital distribution not solving problems for newspapers”
We need to talk about metrics
Do metrics really belong to newsroom? Or do they rather belong to boardroom? I debate this in my book chapter “We need to talk about metrics”, published in Themes and Critical Debates in Contemporary Journalism which is edited by Dr Verica Rupar. From the book introduction: “The increasingly complex “post-industrial news ecosystem” has interlinked newsContinueContinue reading “We need to talk about metrics”
Dr Merja Myllylahti 