Newspaper Publishing Industry Research Articles

Press Subsidies and Business Performance of Newspaper Publishing in Three Nordic Media Welfare States

The Nordic countries have been regarded as so-called “media welfare states.” Despite the large amount of public money used on press subsidies over the decades in the Nordic countries, there is not much academic research on the financial performance of the newspaper publishing industry in these countries. This study examines the “media welfare state” approach to public support for newspapers and the financial performance of newspaper companies in three Nordic countries: Finland, Sweden, and Norway. Our data consists of the key financial figures of newspaper publishing companies in the aforementioned countries from 2005 to 2019. Based on our analysis, we argue that direct press subsidies in Sweden and Norway have not been able to prevent a decrease in the number of titles and, importantly, have resulted in a number of subsidy-dependent news outlets unable to survive on their own income. By contrast, the Finnish newspaper publishing industry has been in a better financial situation in terms of almost all indicators and throughout the review period, despite Finland abandoning direct press subsidies in the 1990s.

Hitting the ‘reset button’: The role of digital reorientation in successful turnarounds

Seismic shifts in industries brought about by radical technological innovations usually lead to a misalignment between the capabilities of many incumbent firms, the requisites of their new environment, and eventually, organizational decline. The current turnaround literature, while emphasizing operating and strategic responses to organizational decline that focus on efficiency and fine tuning product/market strategy respectively, ignores such organizational decline that requires fundamental reengineering of the whole firm and its value chain. This paper introduces the concept of digital reorientation as a long term turnaround strategy to respond to situations in which a firm's environment has been fundamentally restructured. Digital reorientation is a technology-enabled, simultaneous and multilevel change that transforms the organization's core architecture and the way it serves its customers. We develop a framework to understand this turnaround strategy relative to traditional operational and strategic options and formulate propositions on internal and external contingencies that will likely influence the effectiveness of its implementation. Finally, using the newspaper publishing industry as an example of an environment that has undergone such disruptive change driven by digital technological innovations, we examine how the use of digital reorientation could help declining firms in that industry successfully turnaround their performance.

Competitive pressure and profitability of newspaper publishing in 12 European countries

ABSTRACTThe newspaper publishing industry in Europe is undergoing a transition and is confronted with serious challenges from the increasing role of the Internet and the hereto-related changes in media consumption habits. Europe is a region, where Internet usage not only has been on a relatively high level but also increased substantially with likely effects on newspaper publishing. This article analyses the development and determinants of the profitability of newspaper publishing sectors of 12 European markets. The average profitability of newspaper publishing is shown to vary both across countries and over time. The results from the econometric estimation prove the assertion that the price–cost margins can not only be explained by the increasing uptake of Internet but also by factors reflecting scale economies and the degree of the competitive pressure.

“For the Exclusive Benefit of Fort Worth”: Amon G. Carter, the Great Depression, and the New Deal

“For the Exclusive Benefit of Fort Worth”:Amon G. Carter, the Great Depression, and the New Deal Brian Cervantez (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Fort Worth newspaper publisher Amon Carter. Photo courtesy of the author. [End Page 120] On November 1, 1935, Jesse Jones, the head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), wired Fort Worth Star-Telegram publisher Amon Carter the simple statement: “Your cowshed has been approved.” Cryptic as it may appear, this telegram verified that the Texas publisher’s influence reached beyond the wide borders of his home state. At the height of the New Deal, Carter found ways to acquire government money for Fort Worth though he held no elected office and was an entrepreneur of the same class that often clashed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt over certain parts of the New Deal. Vice President John Nance Garner, a close friend of Carter, wryly commented that “[Carter] wants the whole Government of the United States to be run for the exclusive benefit of Fort Worth and to the detriment of Dallas.” While something of an exaggeration, Garner’s comment reflected the attitude many in the Roosevelt administration had regarding Carter’s approach to the New Deal. Simultaneously, Carter opposed the leftward tendencies of the latter part of the New Deal, though he always found a way to reconcile his political disagreements with his loyalty to the national Democratic Party. Clearly, his fickle relationship with the New Deal reflected his business progressive roots as a New South urban booster.1 [End Page 121] By the time of the Great Depression, Carter had become a major figure in the newspaper publishing industry and a nationally known civic booster. Yet surprisingly little scholarly work has been done to investigate the nature of his interaction with Roosevelt and his administration, his approach to the New Deal, or the results of his efforts. His only published biographer to date, Jerry Flemmons, produced two accounts, Amon: The Life of Amon G. Carter Sr. of Texas, and Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America. Unfortunately, these books, which are not footnoted or sourced in any way, provide little in the way of analysis that places Carter in the proper historical context. More successfully, Patrick Cox’s The First Texas News Barons argues that his general support of the New Deal, especially in its earlier phase, was part of a larger trend among Texas publishers who generally believed that the New Deal provided “a means of coping with nagging problems that had long tormented Texans and other southerners.” In addition, as a result of the Progressive movement, many Texas publishers realized that “[p]olitical contacts in Washington became as essential as those in the local courthouse and the state capitol. This support continued in the critical years of the New Deal.” Of course, Carter is not the central figure in Cox’s book, so there is much analysis left to be done. And while broader histories of Fort Worth are often replete with Carter anecdotes, he emerges as little more than a provincial media magnate, not the exceptionally well-connected power broker that he was in reality. Carter’s activities during the Great Depression illustrate how one business progressive from the South interacted with the New Deal, revealing a complex set of attitudes about the federal government’s role in economic recovery.2 Born into a poor rural family in 1879 in Crafton, Texas, in northwestern Wise County, Carter strove early in life to develop an economic foundation for success. Despite the obvious shortcomings of his background, he successfully maneuvered his way through life, beginning first as a “chicken and bread boy” selling sandwiches to train passengers in his hometown of Bowie, Texas. After spending his late teens and early twenties as a traveling salesman selling oversized pictures (and the frames that fit them), he settled briefly in San Francisco to work in advertising. Despite a promising future in San Francisco, Carter moved to Fort Worth, where, in 1906, he connected with investors looking to start their own newspaper. By 1909, this newspaper had become the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Much of Carter’s...

Role of Newspaper Publishers in the Economy of Cumberland & Dauphin Counties

Newspaper publishers are an important part of the history and economy of Cumberland and Dauphin counties in Pennsylvania. The newspaper publishing industry creates jobs and compensation for workers and generates tax revenues in the counties.

Literacy, Imagined Nations, and Imperialism: Frontier College and the Construction of British Canada, 1899-1933

Print capitalism, languages-of-power, and the development of widespread literacy have been understood to be key historical forces in the construction of imagined national communities(Anderson). In Canada, the convergence of the newspaper publishing industry, English as a language-of-power, and literacy set the stage in the late 19th century for the emergence of an imagined Canadian nation, embedded both in Anglo-Protestant ideals of identity and British imperialist aspirations. Frontier College, in providing literacy and citizenship education to laboring immigrant men on the resource frontier, was the quintessential embodiment of the grand project of Anglo-Canadian nation building. Based on research in the Frontier College fonds of the Canadian National Archives, this article discusses the nature of the imagined community constructed in the literacy programs of Frontier College from 1899 to 1933, the means by which this image was promoted, and the particular conceptions of race, class, and gender that shaped it.

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With Just Cause: Unionization of the American Journalist.

With Just Cause is a collection of essays on the relationship between the trend toward unionization and the development of the newspaper publishing industry. Selected Contents: Where We Came From: A Brief History of the Writers Guild of America; Uniting Freelance Writers: The National Writers Union; Printing Trades Unions in the Media; Collective Bargaining: A Foundation for Worker Rights; The Union Shop: Requiring Journalists to Join a Union; Media Unions Before the American Newspaper Guild; The Open Shop Agreement of the A.N.P.A.; Anticommunism in the New York Newspaper Guild; Who Killed the Herald Tribune; Endorsing Politicians and Social Issues: Freedom of Speech and a Union's Right v. Media Credibility and an Illusion of Objectivity; A Brief Look at Publishers and Newspaper Carriers; 'When It's Over, We Won't Care About You Anymore' The Mainstream Press Covers Labor; The Labor Press in America.

Electrochemical Impedance Analysis of the Wear of Planographic Plates

Abstract Chemically roughened and anodized Al sheets containing an oil-loving photosensitive organic compound provide the image carrying component for the high-speed planographic lithography used in the newspaper publishing industry. New concepts for printing press design require an understanding of the mechanism of wear and degradation of these surfaces. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy senses chemically and tribologically produced changes on the surface of a planographic plate. A concept for an electrochemical impedance wear monitoring device has been tested. Wear and degradation processes tend to increase the capacitance of the anodized Al surface of the plate. Measurement of the plate capacitance during an actual press run provides some insight into the wear process.

Concentration and Specialization: Dynamics of Niche Width in Populations of Organizations

This paper departs from the common practice of focusing on large, generalist organizations and shows that new organizational insights are obtined by adopting a broader, ecological perspective. The newspaper publishing industry is examined as an illustration. The ecological focus shows that many small, specialized organizations operate successfully in this industry, despite apparently high levels of local concentration. A resource-partitioning model is advanced to explain the interorganizational relationships between generalist and specialist organizations. Statistical tests of the model using historical data on 2,808 American local newspaper organizations show the merit of using the ecological perspective for analyzing industries.

Public Information Flows in Rural Australia

Geographical studies of the transmission of information have focussed overwhelmingly on private information flows based on direct, face-to-face contact. Very little attention has been directed to media-based public information flows despite the potential importance of this type of flow in regional development. Yet an examination of newspaper content for the New England region of New South Wales for 1971 and 1977 reveals that major changes are occurring in newspaper-based information flows. Rural newspapers are becoming increasingly aspatial and parochial in their news coverage and the flow of information between rural centres is changing from a complex system to a less complex system. The reasons for these trends are not entirely clear, but may relate to economic and technological changes within the newspaper publishing industry as well as to the fortunes of regional policy in Australia.

Trends in Daily Newspaper Ownership since 1945

With one-daily cities and regional newspaper groups both showing steady gains, and with increases in the total number of daily cities keeping abreast of the country's growth, the daily newspaper publishing industry in the United States appears to have attained the highest degree of stability in its history.

The Changing Pattern of the Newspaper Publishing Industry

The American Journal of Economics and SociologyVolume 5, Issue 1 p. 43-63 The Changing Pattern of the Newspaper Publishing Industry Charles V. Kinter, Charles V. Kinter Medil School of Journalism, Nortwetern UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Charles V. Kinter, Charles V. Kinter Medil School of Journalism, Nortwetern UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: October 1945 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1536-7150.1945.tb01781.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume5, Issue1October 1945Pages 43-63 RelatedInformation