Newspaper Business Research Articles

The Resiliency of Business Model Innovation of Indonesian Newspapers During Covid-19 Pandemic

Newspaper business firms in Indonesia are facing difficult times both in keeping up with the advancement of digital technology and in dealing with Covid-19 Pandemic. This study attempts to examine the effects of Covid-19 Pandemic, corporate entrepreneurship, and organizational inertia on the business model innovation and business model performance of Indonesian newspaper business firms. This study employs a quantitative method using structural equation modelling (SEM). Data were collected from surveys on 50 newspapers’ leaders in DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, and East Java. This study showed that there were direct consequences of both Covid-19 Pandemic, corporate entrepreneurship, and organizational inertia on business model innovation. Covid-19 Pandemic was also found affecting corporate entrepreneurship. Business model performance as measured by short term performance was not affected by business model innovation. Business model innovation is needed to improve long-term company performance.

Comunicación corporativa durante la pandemia por la COVID-19. Un análisis de las portadas de la prensa económica española durante el 2020 / Corporate communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis of the front pages of the Spanish business press in 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic that arrived in 2020 has affected the entire media landscape and also corporate communication. This research has analysed the main topics on the front pages of the three Spanish economic newspapers during 2020: Expansión, Cinco Días and El Economista. The evaluation of the main front page topics has made it possible to quantify the extent to which the pandemic has displaced the coverage devoted to corporate communications in organizations. In addition, it has been possible to observe which organizations have successfully spreading their messages and which specific issues have been most related to the pandemic. The results obtained show that the health crisis has absorbed the main topics of the front pages of the economic newspapers, leaving only half of the coverage available for other topics. Within this phenomenon of absorption, the effects on employment had the greatest prominence with a 10% presence in all the headlines analysed. The coverage on unemployment is especially important if it is related to the tourism sector, which was the industry with the highest presence on the front pages (36.6% of all topics categorized as COVID-19). The significant presence of both topics indirectly points to the important weight of tourism in the Spanish economy. However, it is not possible to state that all related topics were negative because there was also coverage focused on economic recovery (4.4%). On the other hand, in the space not occupied by the pandemic, it was observed that the coverage of the Caixabank - Bankia merger was the most important in comparison with the coverage of the rest of the organizations. This business initiative achieved 2.65% of front page topics since the pandemic began, in a scenario that was very limited. In general, mergers and acquisitions was the most important topic in 2020, as the second most covered specific topic was the failed merger between Banc Sabadell and BBVA. Telefonica was also among the companies with the most front-page coverage, although with a greater diversity of topics. The rest of the companies analysed also showed a wide variety of corporate topics as dividend management, cash flow movements and business diversification. It was also noted that the coverage achieved on the front pages maintained a business focus and wasn’t a vehicle for disseminating CSR efforts related to the pandemic. This is a very significant result because much recent literature has argued that during the pandemic, CSR has played an important role in the communication strategies of organizations. However, it seems that these actions have not been enough important to get a prominent position on the front page of Spanish business newspapers. The most important conclusion that can be drawn from this research is that corporate communication by organizations did not disappear during 2020 despite the ravages of the pandemic, but was reduced by 50%. This reduction also shows a very important effect to take into consideration. During the year 2020 organizations had to work much harder to be in the spotlight even though the economic coverage of the analysed media did not completely disappear because of the pandemic.

Gaming Slang Terms in Russian Online Media: A Case Study of News Articles

The goal of this study is to identify gaming slang terms in the news articles of highly rated Russian media. Three online newspapers of various types were used as an empirical material: Kommersant (the first private business newspaper in Russia), RBC (a socio-political analytical newspaper) and Rossiyskaya Gazeta (agency of the Russian Federation government). With help of the content analysis of the media texts, all cases of using the slang gaming terms such as achievement, noob, easter eggs etc. have been discovered and described. The results of the study show that over the past five years the popularity of the gaming terms usage in the media has been growing; this increase can be described as a linear progressive growth: gaming slang is becoming an integral part of the Runet online resources and is gradually entering common vocabulary. It can be assumed that with the increase in the number of media managers from the generation of digital natives and their transition to the category of decision makers, the growth of gaming slang terms in online media will become exponential.

Growth through repositioning – the case of IHCL

Theoretical basis This case highlights repositioning strategies that change a product’s position in the minds of the consumer in response to changes in market conditions. These changes should be balanced with a certain amount of brand authenticity and continuity. Brand identity is the vision, core values and key beliefs of the brand. There are four main branding strategies as follows: house of brands, endorsed brands, sub-brands and branded house. These options can be placed in a continuum and the position on the branding relationship spectrum reflects the degree to which brands are separated in strategy execution and in the customer’s minds. Research methodology This case is based on secondary data, mainly from interviews of industry leaders in business journals, newspapers, research articles and industry reports, including from international organizations. Case overview/synopsis The case examines the frequent revisions in branding strategies by India’s second largest group of hotels – Indian Hotels Company Limited. Repositioning involves changing the market’s perceptions of an offering to compete more effectively in its target segments. However, a certain amount of continuity is also essential to the brand’s development over time. The case helps students to view the brand from two angles as follows: the angle of brand identity and the disruptive angle of new developments. They will examine the rationale for the frequent repositioning strategies using the brand relationship spectrum and whether these will affect the brand identity of the iconic brand Taj. Complexity academic level This case has been effectively used with MBA Marketing students in Product and Brand Management and Services Marketing classes to demonstrate how companies use repositioning strategies as a considered response to the market conditions. As competitive conditions and consumers evolve, changes in branding strategy will be necessitated. The students are expected to have basic knowledge of brand architecture and brand strategies. The case can be used to illustrate the brand relationship spectrum and the differences among branding strategies in brand architecture. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes.

Where Have All the Stories and Voices Gone in Local Newspapers? The Effect Falling Advertising Revenues and the Rise of the Web Have Had on English Regional Newspapers

The regional newspaper industry in the UK is in freefall with sales down more than 60 percent in 10 years. With this decline has come cost-cutting. This study looks at how these cuts have manifested themselves in terms of the number of news stories now being printed in newspapers and the number of local people being quoted in the newspapers. The study has looked at a number of regional newspapers across 30 years to show the effect of the changing face of the newspaper business as the audience and advertising have moved online. The research includes interviews with experts on whether story count mattered and if fewer stories and local voices have damaged the product. This paper finds that generally newspaper companies with a web-first culture have been forced to reduce their local news content in their printed products as they concentrate their resources online. While fewer stories and voices cannot be blamed for the complete demise of the newspapers, it is a consequence of cost-cutting and disadvantages the product. Opinions do vary on the needs for high story count, but this paper shows that most experts believe it is important and that without it, printed newspapers have been damaged. Keywords: newspapers, regional, decline, stories, quotes

A Comparative Functional Analysis of Discourse Markers in the Native and the Non-Native English Newspaper Business Corpus

Abstract The current study explores the functional nature of Discourse Markers (DMs) in the newspaper business corpus. DMs function as cohesive devices which, additionally, carry pragmatic and semantic meanings present in both the written and the spoken discourse. The focus of this study is to comparatively highlight the differences in the functions of DMs in the business discourse of the native and the non-native newspapers. The study has employed Fung’s (2003) multi-categorical comprehensive framework of DMs. The framework functionally divides DMs into interpersonal, cognitive, structural, and referential categories. These major categories have further been divided into many subcategories of DMs. Based on this comprehensive framework; the current study identifies different functional DMs and compares them for their quantitative and qualitative differences in use. For the analysis of this study, a corpus of one million words was collected from the native business newspapers (The Daily Mail and The Telegraph) and the non-native business newspapers (The Dawn, The Business Recorder, The Nation and Daily Times). Data analysis shows that the most frequently used functional categories of DMs among the native writers are referential and structural, while the least frequently used functional category is cognitive. On the other hand, non-native Pakistani writers make more use of functional DMs of referential, structural and cognitive categories, while the least frequently used functional category is interpersonal. This quantitative difference in the use of DMs makes the native business corpus more coherent and interactive than that of the non-native business corpus. It is expected that the findings of the study may help understand the differences of textuality in the native and the non-native newspaper corpus. It is also expected that the findings of the current study can assist curriculum developers and ESL instructors in developing better teaching materials for second language learners.

Microbiome research in general and business newspapers: How many microbiome articles are published and which study designs make the news the most?

The microbiome is a matter of interest for science, consumers and business. Our objective is to quantify that interest in academic journals and newspapers, both quantitatively and by study design. We calculated the number of articles on the microbiome from the total number of biomedicine articles featured in both PubMed and Spanish science news agency SINC, from 2008 to 2018. We used the Factiva database to identify news stories on microbiome papers in three general newspapers (The New York Times, The Times and El País) and three business newspapers (The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Expansión), from 2007 to 2019. Then, we compared news stories with microbiome papers in PubMed, while also analyzing the frequencies of five study design types, both in the newspapers and in the papers themselves. Microbiome papers represented 0.8% of biomedicine papers in PubMed from 2008 to 2018 (increasing from 0.4% to 1.4%), while microbiome news published by SINC represented 1.6% of total biomedical news stories during the same period (increasing from 0.2% to 2.2%). The number of news stories on microbiome papers correlated with the number of microbiome papers (0.91, p < 0.001) featured in general newspapers, but not in business ones. News stories on microbiome papers represented 78.9% and 42.7% of all microbiome articles in general and business newspapers, respectively. Both media outlet types tended to over-report observational studies in humans while under-reporting environmental studies, while the representation of systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials, randomized controlled trials and animal/laboratory studies was similar when comparing newspapers and PubMed. The microbiome is receiving increasing attention in academic journals and newspapers. News stories on the microbiome in general and business newspapers are mostly based on research findings and are more interested in observational studies in humans and less in environmental studies compared to PubMed.

The Value of Local News in the Digital Realm – Introducing the Integrated Value Creation Model

Taking the failing two-sided market model of commercial news media as its point of departure, this article introduces a value creation model that unpacks the dynamics of local newspapers’ value creation from a business, social responsibility, and audience gratification perspective. The integrated value creation model shows how local news publishers’ role as civic institutions and as commercial operations generate both value flows and value flow gaps between audiences, newspaper businesses and society. Specifically, the model illuminates how local newspaper businesses’ value capture strategies and audiences’ perceived value of the digital news product affect local newspapers’ societal role and their business sustainability. The article provides insight into the possibilities and perils of a funding structure for digital journalism in a triple market setting where state subsidies, audiences and advertisers contribute to news publishers’ revenue.

The Wall Street Journal: University Membership

With around three million total global subscribers (News Corporation, 2020, p. 49), The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), published by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., is a leading business newspaper and has lo...

A News-Based Policy Index for Italy: Expectations and Fiscal Policy

In this paper we investigate the effect of a news-based policy shock on consumption and investments. To this aim, we construct a new measure of policy announcements, the Policy News Index (PNI), analyzing textual data from the most important Italian business newspaper (Il Sole 24 Ore). To disentangle and noise from fiscal policy communication, we provide measures of newspaper coverage of policy announcements purged from uncertainty. Using a BVAR, we estimate the response of households and firms to a on government spending. Results indicate that the news or foresight shock has delayed effects on government spending, consumption and investments. Agents receive mixed signals from newspapers about changes in government spending and they do not react before changes are fully in place due to a lack of trust. Additionally, we show in a counterfactual exercise that the confidence channel plays a crucial role in in the transmission of the shock. Hence, our results provides evidence that outcomes are expectations-driven.

Dismembering media diversity: A tryst with two press commissions

How does the governance of the newspaper business in mid-20th century India enrich our understanding of contests over media diversity? This essay examines the anxieties of media diversity in regulatory debates in India during the decades between the two Press Commissions of 1954 and 1982. I argue the contests spawned during these debates being driven as much by normative standpoints on the press as a modern institution as by enumerations of the actual dynamics in the newspaper business. My purpose is twofold: to highlight the anxieties about media diversity expressed by both press commissions and related policy debates in the interim; and to reveal the desires to mitigate the risks to media diversity being undermined by mobilising unqualified notions of media freedom.

Political connections and media slant

We examine the influence of political connections on media slant for a sample of Chinese listed firms. We find that firms with stronger political connections obtain more positive reports from major Chinese business newspapers. The association is more pronounced when firms are located in provinces with more government intervention and when the media are state-controlled (compared with market-oriented media). We further examine two explanations for the positive association between political connections and media slant. On the demand side, the firm management channel sees firms using their political connections to manage the relationship with the media for favorable reporting. On the supply side, the media intention channel has media outlets providing favorable reporting to connected firms to enhance their own relationship with the government. We find evidence supporting the firm management channel.

기사 헤드라인의 한-영 기계번역 고찰 - 헤드라인의 언어형식 측면을 중심으로

The purpose of this study was to examine problems in machine translation output of newspaper headlines with a focus on linguistic features, in comparison with human translation output. For this purpose, 200 headlines from Infostock Daily (machine translation) and 200 headlines from Pulse, Maeil Business Newspaper’s English-language daily (human translation), were collected and analyzed in terms of five different linguistic features between Korean and English newspaper headlines. The analysis results showed a range of problems in machine-translated headlines. Ellipsis, quotation marks, commas used instead of subject case markers, and verb-less noun phrases – a common strategy for Korean newspaper headlines – negatively affected readability of Infostock Daily headlines, while unnecessary be-verbs, present perfect tense to report past events, and ‘will’ for future tense – a feature not common in English newspaper headlines – were frequently found in Infostock Daily. All in all, these findings suggest the need for light post-editing of machine-translated headlines, providing some useful insights into the post-editing guidelines for newspaper headlines.

COVID-19 IMPACT ON NEWSPAPER BUSINESS MODEL CHANGE

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Covid-19 pandemic causing major shock to the business environment. One of the most affected business environment are newspaper business. Newspaper business that was previously always able to survive in the midst of various disruptions of time, now it is difficult to repeat the ‘glories’ of the past. Because Covid-19 has limited physical interactions which have resulted in disruption of all newspaper business activities starting from the production, distribution, and consumption. This situation left newspaper organizations with little choice but to innovate their business models. This research uses quantitative methods by distributing samples in 30 national newspapers in Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to reveal the strategic steps taken by the Indonesian newspaper business in order to survive from Covid-19 crisis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Keywords&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;: Covid-19 Turbulance, Digital Innovation, Newspaper Business, Business Model innovation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Os limites da liberdade: lei de imprensa e embates políticos no Rio de Janeiro da Primeira República

Este texto acompanha os embates travados entre jornais empresariais, operários, críticos e independentes durante a formulação da primeira lei de imprensa brasileira, procurando evidenciar suas posições e argumentos a favor e contra a imposição de limites ao exercício da liberdade de imprensa. Debate algumas questões em torno da criminalização do exercício da liberdade de expressão em meio às tensões sociais e políticas daqueles primeiros anos da experiência republicana. Destaca articulações entre a definição legal de “crimes de imprensa” com o processo mais amplo de aprovação de leis repressivas para combate ao anarquismo e à expulsão de estrangeiros. Propõe, ainda, que a explicação para a emergência histórica da lei não pode considerar apenas o acirramento das disputas político-eleitorais mas a constituição de mecanismos jurídicos para coibir e limitar a imprensa crítica em geral e a imprensa operária em particular.

Hungary evening press: Az Est’s special role

The article is devoted to the flagship of the evening Hungarian press - the newspaper Az Est . The publication is considered in the context of the situation in the press in the first third of the twentieth century. The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the innovations applied by the publishers of Az Est . Attention was drawn to the placement of serious news information along with the publication of sensations, a special layout, including, in particular, large headlines, one-column articles and a large amount of illustrative material addressed by artists, the rejection of templates familiar to other Hungarian publications of that time. It is noted that the political diary, as the newspaper described itself, lacked a political position and attachment to any political party. The circulation of the newspaper significantly exceeded the circulation of other publications and in some years reached almost half a million copies. The first major Hungarian press tycoon Andor Miklos is featured as the founder, owner and editor-inchief of the newspaper. The formation of his media empire was fully facilitated by the success of Az Est , a newspaper that was initially considered by its creator as a business project that created a competitive situation in the Hungarian newspaper business and, subsequently, in the publishing business. It also analyzes the PR and advertising campaigns that preceded the launch of the newspaper and aroused public interest. The novelty of this article is that there is no research by the Az Est newspaper in the domestic scientific literature, as well as any materials in Russian related to the Hungarian evening press.

Data journalism uptake in South Africa’s mainstream quotidian business news reporting practices

Drawing from the sociology of news production theory, this study examines the uptake of data-driven practices in business news reporting. It examines the extent to which journalists have adopted data journalism in business news and how this has altered their news reporting practices. It is based on a textual analysis of business news stories from two selected prominent business newspapers – Business Day and The Financial Mail and qualitative interviews with business news reporters. The study finds that there is a (gradually) increasing uptake of data-driven business news reporting practices, tempered by journalists’ concerns regarding their own individual professional capabilities. Furthermore, the practice has increasingly created a new narrative of corporate accountability in the press and inculcated collaboration in newsrooms. It argues that data-driven business news practices have upended the ‘rhythimised’ and ‘routinised’ news production processes by, among other aspects, empowering non-elite news sources, fostering newsroom collaborations and agentive the newsrooms. However, there is need for a recalibration of journalism education if data-driven reporting practices are to be more sustainable.

(Opportunities) Death of Newspaper Industry in Digital Age and Covid-19 Pandemic

&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Newspaper industry is entering a state of emergency in Indonesia. Dewan Pers demands that the government provide incentives to press companies during Covid-19. The growth in the number of internet users, the downward trend in advertising revenue, and the number of newspaper circulation are problems in the print media business. List of questions in this study: what are the trends in the use of internet technology and social media in Indonesia?; why did various newspaper companies in Indonesia collapse and die in the digital era?; how is the effort to save the newspaper business? Meanwhile, the research paradigm is qualitative. The time of the study is November 2019 to May 2020. The results of this research, the growth in the number of internet users has been extraordinary in the last 20 years. Signs of the newspaper era are over, strengthened by many newspaper companies turning to online media. The number of readers fell, the number of advertisers plummeted, number of copies narrowed, and the cost of producing newspapers became increasingly expensive to cause the closure of various newspaper companies. Rescue by attracting young readers and doing various innovations. Tragically, the print media industry will end and die on its own.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

An entrepreneurial migrant family: The rise of Aw Boon Haw’s business empire in the Asia-Pacific

This research note uses the rise of Aw Boon Haw’s dynastic family businesses across Asia to illustrate Chinese migrant entrepreneurs’ business development and dynamism. Although it is known that the management and operation of Chinese migrant family businesses do have disadvantages, there is substantial evidence that family control and network capital can facilitate their business endeavors. Through the case of the Aw family business, it was found that by using key strategies of family control and its network capital, even though their migrant background posed multi-layered disadvantages, the Aw family was able to rise from rags to riches in the medicine and newspaper businesses. Not only did their migrant background not restrict Aw family business growth, it fostered its expansion in the region and the world.

Macroeconomic Effects of Uncertainty: A Big Data Analysis for India

Uncertainty about the current state and near-term outlook of an economy as well as the likely course of future policy actions can prompt economic agents to alter their decisions to spend, save, invest and hire. In this paper, we construct three alternative indices to measure the level of uncertainty for the Indian economy. The first two uncertainty indices are constructed by applying text mining and natural language processing (NLP) techniques on a dataset compiled from leading Indian business newspapers. The third index is based on internet search intensity data available from Google Trends. Empirical findings from a Local Projections-based econometric framework suggest that uncertainty shocks influence financial markets as well as the real economy in India. Our results indicate that both investment activity and real GDP growth slow down when uncertainty increases in the economy. Such uncertainty indices can help strengthen policy simulation exercises to study the impact of low/high uncertainty scenarios and also improve near-term projection of macroeconomic variables which exhibit high degree of sensitivity to uncertainty.