Newspaper Industry Research Articles

“This Is My Exit Sign”: Job Control Deficit, Role Strain and Turnover in Mexican Journalism

ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to analyze the relationship between job control, role strain and turnover in Mexican journalism. Understood as the workers’ capacity to influence decision-making at an organizational level, job control is a concept that can help us predict turnover in this country’s newspapers. The analysis is based on 64 in-depth interviews with journalists and former journalists from three northern Mexican states: Baja California, Nuevo Leon and Sonora. The main finding is that this region’s news workers perceive and experience a deficit of job control as they feel that they cannot influence the definition of their own labor in terms of methods, tasks, quality, quantity, pace, schedules, supervision and salaries. As their job demands are high, this produces role strain, turnover intentions and turnover. By replacing the notion of professional autonomy with job control, this article examines how journalists respond to a perceived shortage of capacity to influence decision-making to try to improve our understanding of the changing nature of job continuity in the newspaper industry.

How News Images Affect Clicking on Subscription Appeals

ABSTRACT The newspaper industry’s business model increasingly relies on subscriptions as a means of revenue. Little scholarly research has examined what characteristics of subscription appeals make them more or less successful, although prior research on news attention proposes that negative images may be more successful whereas digital advertising research suggests the benefits of positive images. In 10 tests with three newsroom partners, we experimentally manipulate the type of image used in the subscription appeal. Across the tests, we varied the type of subscription (paid or free newsletter), the medium used (Facebook Sponsored Posts or direct email), and the targeting method (Facebook custom audiences or email lists from the newsroom). Results show that images of journalists doing their work or images of natural disasters covered by the news organization are consistently more effective than logos at generating subscriptions. Implications of this study exist for our understanding of the effects of visuals, for news organizations attempting to garner subscribers, and for researchers interested in conducting real-world experiments via Facebook or email.

Ma Jun and the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (A)

This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. After joining an international environmental consultancy firm, Ma Jun, a journalist in the People's Republic of China, was increasingly interested in environmental issues. Wanting to do more than report on these issues, he started to consider founding a nongovernmental organization (NGO) focusing on environmental protection and relying on public participation to keep companies accountable. This idea became the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE). In the course of establishing the IPE, Ma encountered so many crucial problems and challenges that he wondered if he could still go on, and how he could do so effectively. Excerpt UVA-OB-1303 Giving Voice to Values Mar. 3, 2020 Ma Jun and the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (A) In June 2005, Ma Jun ended a one-year study at Yale University and returned to China. At that time he faced a major choice. Given the increasingly prominent problems of environmental pollution and ecological deterioration in China, what could he do to more effectively promote China's environmental and ecological protection? Was founding a nongovernmental organization (NGO) the best choice? How could an NGO interact with the government and enterprises in order to promote and improve China's environmental protection more effectively? Ma needed to think carefully and prudently. Ten Years in the Newspaper Industry . . .

No News is Bad News: Political Corruption and the Decline of the Fourth Estate

The rise of the internet has precipitated the birth and downfall of numerous industries, but perhaps no industry has been transformed to the same degree as news production. Journalism has seen the rise of content aggregation, the proliferation of fake news through social media, and the decimation of local reporting capacity, all of which have served to hollow the newspaper industry. In this work, we examine the downstream effects of this decline industry on an outcome of significant theoretical and practical significance: political corruption. As newspapers are an important investigative arm of local communities, it is possible that the closure of community media will embolden corrupt actors who believe they are less likely to be detected following the closure of a local newspaper. To estimate any effect, we employ a difference in difference approach, exploiting the phased closure of major daily newspapers across the country. Results indicate a significant increase in federal corruption charges in federal districts following closure. Further, we observe no evidence that the rise in online newsvendors and the democratization of the press ameliorates this effect. This highlights the important role of the “fourth estate” in inhibiting corruption in governance and the need to conceptualize the punitive societal effects of the internet more expansively.

Conflictual Diversity and Contested Cultural Heritage: Newspaper Coverage of Religion in Norway 1938–2018

The visibility and diversity of religion in selected Norwegian newspapers published in the capital of Oslo is studied in a quantitativeanalysis at ten-year intervals from 1938 to 2018, with an emphasis onthe last forty years. Recent structural transformations in the newspaper industry and editorial choices cut the number of articles on religionconsiderably in 2018 compared to earlier years. However, the relativevisibility of religion in the share of the total editorial output is fairlystable, at about 1.5 per cent of the content. Rather, the changes havebeen with the diversity and criticism of religion. The representationof Islam has strongly increased, while the newspapers have playeddown the coverage of the Lutheran majority church. The conflictualdiversity and contested cultural heritage in the newspaper material arepartly shaped by the media dynamics in the mediatization of religion.

The Newspaper Industry in a Changing Landscape The Shift in News Content of Various Newspapers as a Response to the Rise of Social Media

This paper examines the association between the rise of social media and the types of news content produced by newspaper outlets. Over the past two decades, the rise of social media has precipitated a decline in the role of traditional newspaper outlets. I present two hypotheses and their ensuing rationale – hypothesis one describes how newspapers may increase hard news content to further consolidate their reader base, while hypothesis two postulates that hard news content will decrease as papers try to regain the readers they lost to social media. Data was collected from two reputable and two less-reputable newspaper outlets to see how they reacted to increases in social media usage and whether their responses varied. For each newspaper outlet, the author identified the number of articles that included keywords drawn from hard news and soft news word banks. Using a ratio of hard to soft news, regression analysis was then performed. After running regression analysis with trend data from the Pew Research Center on the number of US adults with social media accounts, results indicate a moderate negative correlation amongst the two more reputable newspapers and no correlation amongst less reputable newspapers, meaning that the more reputable newspapers tended to decrease hard news content as social media became more popular.

A Study on HoOe and Jjeonalism as a Newspaper Review Magazine in 1930s : focused on Publishing Background and the Main Issues of Contents

본 연구는 1930년대 신문평론을 표방하며 발행된 전문잡지 <호외>와 <쩌날리즘>의 발행 특성을 살펴보고 있다. 이를 위해 발행 배경과 발행 목적, 그리고 게재된 원고의 성격과 논지를 검토해 보았다. 두 잡지가 발행된 1930년대 조선의 신문계는 내외적 조건 속에서 비판적 논조의 소멸과 신문사들의 기업적 경쟁이 가열화되는 시기였다. 이를 반영하는 두 신문평론 잡지의 논조와 지향점은 분명한 차이를 보인다. <호외>는 신문계에 대한 소식을 토대로 일반 대중들에게 흥미로운 이야깃거리를 제공하는 취미독물 잡지로서의 성격을 지향했다. 지면 편집에서도 이러한 발행 목표를 충분히 반영했으며, 내용적 측면에서도 가십성 인물동정, 신문기자 수기 및 수필 등 가벼운 읽을거리 중심으로 접근했다. <쩌날리즘>은 신문에 대한 지식, 신문계 동향 분석과 비판, 신문계동정 등에 중심을 두면서 신문평론 잡지로서의 목적을 분명히 했다. 신문에 대한 지식을 대중적으로 전달하고자 하는 교양지 성격의 신문평론 잡지를 지향했던 것이다. 아쉬운 것은 두 잡지 모두 1회 발행에 그치고 말았다는 것이다. 그럼에도 불구하고 잇달아 발간된 신문평론 잡지들은 일제강점기이자 근대 시기 조선 신문계 상황을 담아내고자 했다는 점에서 그 발행 의의가 있다.This study examines the characteristics of HoOe and Jjeonalism published in 1930s as a newspaper review Magazine. HoOe aimed at its character as a hobby magazine that provides interesting story-telling to the general public based on newspaperdom. The editing of HoOe magazine reflected these publication goals, and in terms of content, it also approached the subject with light readings such as gossip for personal and newspaperdom. Jjeonalism clarified its purpose as a newspaper review magazine, focusing on knowledge of newspapers, analysis and criticism of newspaper trends and industry. Jjeonalism It aimed such as cultural and theoretical magazine that wanted to convey knowledge of newspapers to the public. However, both magazines were short-lived. Nevertheless, HoOe and Jjeonalism as a newspaper review magazines are meaningful in that they wanted to capture the situation of the newspaper industry during the Japanese colonial period and the modern times in Chosun.

No, the U.S. newspaper industry is not hiring graduates only from elite colleges

No, the U.S. newspaper industry is not hiring graduates only from elite colleges

Strategic challenges of newspaper publishing in an international perspective

An analysis of newspaper industries in their national contexts exhibits strategic clusters of similar challenges, imposed by digital transformation and socio-economic change. While growth of media in general, newspaper reach, and Internet penetration are dominant factors framing the prosperity of newspaper publishing, dynamics of digital revenues from advertising and circulation still vary substantially also within such clusters. Only in very few countries, publishers achieve to collectively combine (still) growing overall revenues with advanced digital transformation.

Scouse Sensation

This paper explores how leading provincial newspapers in Edwardian Liverpool incorporated innovations popularised by the daily mass press into their reporting of election-time politics. Drawn from coverage of four general elections, this paper charts how changes in these Liverpudlian newspapers’ political coverage showcased a provincial press that was inspired by powerful national competitors, and utilised some of their innovations to the language and formatting of political reporting to attempt to speak more directly to local readerships. This evolution in content both ‘localised’ and ‘sensationalised’ these newspapers’ approaches to political reporting, and contributed to a broader, positive recalibration of their purpose as provincial newspapers and their connection to their localities. Through this case study, this paper also challenges historical understandings of the national New Journalism’s impact on the provincial newspaper industry, as well as the nature of its political content.

“Is It Not Possible to Be a Radical and a Christian?”: Dorothy Day’s Evolving Relationship with the Patriarchal Norms of Journalism and Catholicism

ABSTRACTJournalist and Catholic activist Dorothy Day demonstrated her values through both actions with radical groups outside the conventional structures and norms for women of her time at the beginning of her career, and later through the small, quiet, daily acts of radicalism. As this article shows, through her leveraging and adherence to traditions and teachings, Day was able to access male-dominated spaces, gain legitimacy within the patriarchal structures, and later share her more radical, yet faithful, beliefs with readers and the Church to create change from within both the Church and the newspaper industry. Through an analysis of Day’s personal papers, news articles, and memoirs, this article examines the way Day’s experience as a journalist shaped her writing, activism, personal interactions, and understanding of the world.

Stop the Presses! Or Wait, We Might Need Them: Firm Responses to Local Newspaper Closures and Layoffs

Media as a whole has been shown to play an important role as an information source, information intermediary, and monitor of public firms, but much less is known about whether local newspapers play a similar role. We attempt to shed light on this issue, and we investigate if and how firms respond to changes in the local newspaper industry, where closures and layoffs have become the norm. Compared to a sample of matched control firms, we find that following newspaper closures and large industry layoffs, nearby public companies boost dividend payouts. This result follows from prior research suggesting that investors pressure managers to increase dividends in response to growing agency problems. Cross-sectional analyses confirm that our results are driven by geographically-concentrated firms that rely more heavily on local newspapers as a monitor and information source. Our findings suggest that local newspapers play an important role as an information intermediary and monitor of public firms, and that the disappearance of local newspapers exacerbates agency problems in nearby firms that tend to be remedied by higher dividends.

Digital payments for a digital generation

Abstract Digitalization is both a major cause of the challenges now faced by several media industries and a source of their potential solutions. Within the book and newspaper industries, the value of the physical product is about to be surpassed by that of digitally delivered content, disrupting the distribution system that these industries have relied on for many decades. In particular, digital distribution has radically changed the way in which consumers engage in unpaid and paid media consumption. Anchored in the notion of disruptive innovation, and more specifically related to the idea of distribution as disruptive technology, our study investigates Generation Z’s unpaid and paid consumption of digital books and online local newspapers. Drawing on two Norwegian audience surveys, we find that both industries involve at least one disruptive actor. Generation Z relies heavily on Facebook as a distribution channel for news. Pay-walls have a negative effect on the usage of paid online local news, despite the belief that paywalled news is better than free news. In the Norwegian book industry, paper books still have a very strong position among Generation Z. Audiobooks have greater usage than e-books, and we conclude that the real disruptive actor in the Norwegian book industry is the streaming of audiobooks by actors such as Storytel.

«The New York Times»: the experience of editorship formula formation in the ХІХ-th с.

Nowadays, the global newspapers market is considered to be in deep crisis as shown by the decrease in circulations, narrowing of the distribution areas, and the advertising market capacity decrease. At the same time, the quality newspapers that cover social and political issues, (e.g. The New York Times) stay very influential and effective in terms of financial indicators. The determination of factors that allow such newspapers to operate effectively in conditions of market decrease is an important task for both researchers and actors of media space. The paper herein is aimed at discovering of such factors with the use of the studies of The New York Times as the most influential newspaper in the US. The subject is studied with the use of researches on newspaper’s genesis and Adolph Ochs’s influence on setting the factors that have been supporting the newspaper effective operations so far. The biographical and ideographical approaches are used to determine the basics that Adolph Ochs used to reform the newspaper in XIX century. The results herein show that Ochs used the business-oriented approach for the newspaper: he used the popular newspapers optimization methods for the quality press (lowered the retail price, increased the advertising space, increased the size of advertisements, and optimized the delivery methods) but aimed at intellectuals as a main target audience. Ochs showed that the use of appropriate informational and economical politics allows the newspaper to be successful on informational market since US society demanded for the quality journalistic. The understanding of the development strategy of one of the leading newspaper that remains successful in modern conditions of media space transformation is beneficial not only for the building of competition practice but for the modernization of local and national segments of newspaper industry. The paper’s results may be used for adjusting the strategies of existing media and for the comparison of the basics specified herein with the basics of other quality newspapers.

Effects of Communication Information Technology Threat on Traditional Newspaper Industry in Zimbabwe with a Particular Reference to Zimpaper Group

The study sought to examine the effects of information communication technology threat on the newspaper industry in Zimbabwe in a bid to determine how ICT can be adapted for use in the newspaper industry. The research used a case study of the Zimpaper goup where a sample size of 100 respondents were selected using a purposive sampling technique. The study used a combination of three instruments i.e. questionnaire guides, interviews and other records to reduce the disadvantage of using a single method. The study showed that the organisation had a healthy mix of young and old employees who were highly literate. This mix of young and aged workers was likely to be a perfect blend of experience and agility to adoption of ICTs. This implied that the organisation had the inherent potential to adopt ICT in its overall strategy based on the general understanding that a young workforce was likely to adopt ICT more easily compared to an aged workforce. On the hand, the aged workforce would provide useful insights into the existing newspaper products thereby complementing each other. Findings also revealed that while ICT caused serious threats to the traditional newspaper industry it had also the potential to create new business opportunities for the same industry. The study highlighted that the email was the oldest and yet the most prevalent form of communication in the organisation. This implied that the organisation had not yet adopted more robust and yet cost effective forms of communication like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, instant messaging platforms and video conferencing. The study recommended that the organisation should develop a clear change management and communication strategy to articulate its business direction and explain the importance of adopting ICT. This should be followed by extensive training of strategic personnel in ICT skills.

Demand Forecasting with Five Parameter Exponential Smoothing

Changes in technology has affected many aspects on economic development. One of them is Newspaper Industry. Reports indicate that globally the newspaper is passing through its hardest time ever. Therefore, newspaper industry need to be more creative in order to be able to deal with change and maintain its existence. In supply chain management newspaper industry, forecasting is the most important part to predict the future demand, minimize waste of product, scheduling production, optimize inventory level and resources. The exponential smoothing methods are simple but the best approach and popular methods used for forecasting. This study aimed to implement five parameter exponential smoothing to predict number of newspaper demand in the future with various method to get the best forecast result. The perfomance of method is evaluated using a newspaper demand daily time series. MSD and MSE used to determining and selecting the best forecasting method. The result show that additive Holt winters method with damped trend (DAHWM) is suitable for demand forecasting in newspaper industry.

Joint delivery planning with time windows: a case study on supply chain in newspaper industry

The newspaper industry has some special characteristics such as short delivery time that will affect the price of the product. Some the newspaper firms, mostly have the same agency area. Due to the distribution is considered one of the variables that have a relatively high cost, it is necessary to save the cost. Joint delivery is a way to reduce distribution costs. By joint delivery planning, the value of synergies is defined as the (percent) difference between the distribution costs in the original situation in which all firms perform individual distribution, and the distribution costs of all firms are piled up and the route scheme is prepared simultaneously. The calculation of distribution costs using Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) approach and obtained a distribution cost savings of 7.61%.

Discrete-event simulation of a production process for increasing the efficiency of a newspaper production

One of the characteristics of the newspaper industry is the cycle time of production is limited. The production time cycle is depending on several aspects, namely the quantity of paper produced, as well as the utility of each machine and operator. Because of the cycle time of production is limited, the production process of a newspaper industry is required to have a high level of efficiency so that the level of productivity can be increased. A high level of efficiency can be achieved by optimizing aspects of raw materials, machines, and operators. In this article, the method used for modelling real-time production floor systems is Discrete Event Simulation (DES). DES is done by representing the interaction between all components in the system as an event. Flexsim software used to model the actual production system. Analysis of the results of the simulation conducted to determine the utility level of each machine. In this article, there are three scenarios simulated. Each scenario is replicated ten times. Scenario 1 is the scenario of the current system, then the scenario 2 and 3 are proposed as improvements of composition newspaper production systems. From 2 improvements scenarios, the scenario 3 was chosen to be the best scenario that could improve the efficiency of newspaper production systems.

Normative uncertainty and middle-status innovation in the US daily newspaper industry

This article focuses on normatively uncertain innovations and asks when and how organizational status affects the adoption and implementation of these innovations. I argue that middle-status organizations perceive normative uncertainty more as an opportunity for gain, whereas high- and low-status organizations perceive it more as a threat of loss and competition. Consequently, middle-status organizations are likely to be the first to adopt normatively uncertain innovations and to implement them in a way that emphasizes normative uncertainty. Event history and negative binomial regression analyses of the US newspaper industry from 1993 to 2007, the period after the emergence of digital media that was normatively uncertain, support my theoretical arguments. Middle-status newspapers launched their websites faster than other newspapers did. In addition, they emphasized interactivity on the web, which could potentially change the identity of newspapers from sole news producers to facilitators.

BUSINESS MODEL FORMULATION FOR E-NEWSPAPER IN INDONESIA (CASE STUDY: PIKIRAN RAKYAT)

The newspaper industry is undoubtedly entering a declining period. Changes in customer behavior become a major problem for newspaper companies. Demand for electronic media is increasing every year. The electronic newspaper is the only way for newspaper companies to survive in this industry. This study aims to formulate an economically sustained business model through value chain analysis and business model canvas. The research methods used in this study are interviews and consolidation studies. Two main concepts are being used in this research, namely, value chain analysis and business model canvas. Benchmarking with sustained online media company is also needed. The results of this study are business model from the related company that has been economically sustained based on profitability ratio that can be adopted for Pikiran Rakyat e-newspaper. Based on the framework, business model recommendations must be able to define consumers into two, namely audience and advertiser, and determine how to monetize it as a revenue stream. There are two stages in the development of recommended business model from this study; the first stage Pikiran Rakyat needs to focus on community models to gain audiences and then switch into advertising models gradually to monetize their audience. At last, e-newspaper is recommended as an online media commerce model to widen the possibility of revenue stream`s choices.