TY - JOUR A1 - Buschow, Christopher A1 - Wellbrock, Christian-Mathias T1 - “Spotify for News”? User Perception of Subscription-Based Content Platforms for News Media JF - Journalism and Media N2 - Subscription-based news platforms (such as “Apple News+” or “Readly”) that bundle content from different publishers into one comprehensive package and offer it to media users at a fixed monthly rate are a new way of accessing and consuming digital journalism. These services have received little attention in journalism studies, although they differ greatly from traditional media products and distribution channels. This article empirically investigates the perception of journalism platforms based on eight qualitative focus group discussions with 55 German news consumers. Results show that the central characteristics these platforms should fulfill in order to attract users are strikingly similar to the characteristics of media platforms from the music and video industries, in particular regarding price points, contract features, and modes of usage. Against this background, the potential and perspectives of a subscription-based news platform for journalism’s societal role are discussed. KW - Journalistik KW - Journalismus KW - Nachrichtensendung KW - Online-Medien KW - audience studies KW - journalism products KW - content platforms Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230124-48740 UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/4/1/1 VL - 2022 IS - 2023, 4 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buschow, Christopher A1 - Suhr, Maike A1 - Serger, Hauke T1 - Media Work as Field Advancement: The Case of Science Media Center Germany JF - Media and Communication N2 - In the wake of the news industry’s digitization, novel organizations that differ considerably from traditional media firms in terms of their functional roles and organizational practices of media work are emerging. One new type is the field repair organization, which is characterized by supporting high‐quality media work to compensate for the deficits (such as those which come from cost savings and layoffs) which have become apparent in legacy media today. From a practice‐theoretical research perspective and based on semi‐structured interviews, virtual field observations, and document analysis, we have conducted a single case study on Science Media Center Germany (SMC), a unique non‐profit news start‐up launched in 2016 in Cologne, Germany. Our findings show that, in addition to field repair activities, SMC aims to facilitate progress and innovation in the field, which we refer to as field advancement. This helps to uncover emerging needs and anticipates problems before they intensify or even occur, proactively providing products and tools for future journalism. This article contributes to our understanding of novel media organizations with distinct functions in the news industry, allowing for advancements in theory on media work and the organization of journalism in times of digital upheaval. KW - Journalismus KW - Digitalisierung KW - Online-Medien KW - digital journalism KW - field repair organization KW - news media start-up KW - media work KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2022 Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220125-45709 UR - https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4454 VL - 2022 IS - Volume 10, issue 1 SP - 99 EP - 109 PB - Cogitatio Press CY - Lisbon ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Buschow, Christopher A1 - Wellbrock, Christian-Mathias T1 - Money for nothing and content for free? Zahlungsbereitschaft für digitaljournalistische Inhalte N2 - Frei nach dem Motto "Money for nothing and content for free" werden tagesaktuelle Informationen ebenso wie aufwändig recherchierte Reportagen im Digitalen vornehmlich kostenfrei genutzt. Wie können journalistische Angebote sich also nachhaltig refinanzieren? Die vorliegende Studie stellt Nutzerinnen und Nutzer in den Mittelpunkt. Sie fragt nach den Gründen für fehlende Zahlungsbereitschaft sowie danach, warum und wofür gezahlt wird. Außerdem gibt sie Medienschaffenden konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen, um ihre journalistischen Produkte ansprechend zu gestalten und so die Zahlungsbereitschaft von Leserinnen und Lesern zu steigern. KW - Neue Medien KW - Nutzung KW - Zahlungsbereitschaft KW - Journalismus KW - Geschäftsmodell KW - Digitaljournalismus KW - Medienbudget KW - Medienmarkt Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20191111-40168 UR - https://www.medienanstalt-nrw.de/fileadmin/user_upload/lfm-nrw/Foerderung/Forschung/Zahlunsbereitschaft/LFMNRW_Whitepaper_Zahlungsbereitschaft.pdf ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Buschow, Christopher A1 - Wellbrock, Christian-Mathias T1 - Money for nothing and content for free? Willingness to pay for digital journalism N2 - True to the motto “Money for nothing and content for free”, both up-to-date information and thoroughly researched reporting are principally used free of charge in their digital forms. Considering this, how can journalism be funded sustainably? This study focuses on users and investigates the reasons for their lack of willingness to pay for content, as well as what they do pay for, and why. KW - Neue Medien KW - Nutzung KW - Zahlungsbereitschaft KW - Journalismus KW - Geschäftsmodell KW - digital media KW - media use KW - willingness to pay KW - business model KW - price policy Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20191111-40175 UR - https://www.medienanstalt-nrw.de/fileadmin/user_upload/lfm-nrw/Foerderung/Forschung/Zahlunsbereitschaft/Money_For_Nothing_And_Content_For_Free_Willingness_To_Pay_For_Digital_Journalism.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wellbrock, Christian-Mathias A1 - Lobigs, Frank A1 - Erbrich, Lukas A1 - Buschow, Christopher T1 - Coopetition is King. Ökonomische Potentiale und medienpolitische Implikationen kooperativer Journalismusplattformen N2 - Die vorliegende Studie geht der Fragestellung nach, wie sich eine anbieterübergreifende, abonnementbasierte Plattform für den digitalen Journalismus, also eine Art Spotify im Journalismus, auf die Umsätze der Anbieter journalistischer Inhalte und die Abonnements im Digitaljournalismus in Deutschland auswirken würde. Auf Basis drei sich ergänzender Schätzmethoden für Zahlungsbereitschaft, die in zwei Repräsentativbefragungen der deutschen Online-Bevölkerung mit insgesamt 8.000 Teilnehmenden angewandt wurden, gelangt das Whitepaper zu den folgenden Schlüsselbefunden. KW - Journalistik KW - Nachrichtensendung KW - Online-Medien KW - Geschäftsmodell KW - Journalismusplattform KW - Journalismusförderung KW - Digitaljournalismus KW - Abonnement KW - Studie Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230320-49473 VL - 2023 SP - 1 EP - 48 PB - Landesanstalt für Medien NRW CY - Düsseldorf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buschow, Christopher A1 - Possler, Daniel A1 - Scheper, Jule T1 - Teaching Media Entrepreneurship: How A Start-up Simulation Can Increase Students’ Knowledge and Encourage Them to Work in Entrepreneurial Contexts JF - Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication N2 - Entrepreneurship and start-up activities are seen as a key response to recent upheavals in the media industry: Newly founded ventures can act as important drivers for industry transformation and renewal, pioneering new products, business models, and organizational designs (e.g. Achtenhagen, 2017; Buschow & Laugemann, 2020). In principle, media students represent a crucial population of nascent entrepreneurs: individuals who will likely become founders of start-ups (Casero-Ripollés et al., 2016). However, their willingness to start a new business is generally considered to be rather low (Goyanes, 2015), and for journalism students, the idea of innovation tends to be conservative, following traditional norms and professional standards (Singer & Broersma, 2020). In a sample of Spanish journalism students, López-Meri et al. (2020) found that one of the main barriers to entrepreneurial intentions is that students feel they lack knowledge and training in entrepreneurship. In the last 10 years, a wide variety of entrepreneurship education courses have been set up in media departments of colleges and universities worldwide. These programs have been designed to sensitize and prepare communications, media and journalism students to think and act entrepreneurially (e.g. Caplan et al., 2020; Ferrier, 2013; Ferrier & Mays, 2017; Hunter & Nel, 2011). Entrepreneurial competencies and practices not only play a crucial role for start-ups, but, in imes of digital transformation, are increasingly sought after by legacy media companies as well (Küng, 2015). At the Department of Journalism and Communication Research, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Germany, we have been addressing these developments with the “Media Entrepreneurship” program. The course, established in 2013, aims to provide fundamental knowledge of entrepreneurship, as well as promoting students‘ entrepreneurial thinking and behavior. This article presents the pedagogical approach of the program and investigates learning outcomes. By outlining and evaluating the Media Entrepreneurship program, this article aims to promote good practices of entrepreneurship education in communications, media and journalism, and to reflect on the limitations of such programs. KW - Medienwirtschaft KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Journalismus KW - Studium KW - Medienwissenschaft KW - Start-up-Simulation Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210729-44628 UR - https://aejmc.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2021/07/TJMC-11.1-Buschow-et-al.pdf VL - 2021 IS - Volume 11, Nr. 1 SP - 65 EP - 69 PB - Small Programs Interest Group ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Wellbrock, Christian-Mathias A1 - Buschow, Christopher T1 - Money for Nothing and Content for Free? N2 - Wie können journalistische Angebote nachhaltig finanziert werden? Dies bleibt die Kernfrage für Medienhäuser und journalistische Neugründungen bei der Entwicklung und beim Aufbau tragfähiger digitaler Geschäftsmodelle. Die Autoren des vorliegenden Bandes vermitteln einen breiten Überblick über den Wissensstand zum Thema Paid Content, Plattformen und Zahlungsbereitschaft im Journalismus und eröffnen innovative Blickwinkel auf neuartige Plattformmodelle ebenso wie auf Motive und Bedürfnisse der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer digitaljournalistischer Inhalte. Auf Grundlage empirischer Forschung werden Handlungsempfehlungen für die nutzerzentrierte Ausgestaltung von Paid-Content-Angeboten sowie neue Perspektiven auf Zahlungsbereitschaft im digitalen Journalismus erschlossen – relevant sowohl für die Wissenschaft wie auch für die Medienpraxis. KW - Digitaljournalismus KW - Geschäftsmodell KW - Zahlungsbereitschaft KW - Digitaler Journalismus KW - Paid Content KW - Plattformmodell KW - Zahlungsbereitschaft Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20201001-42475 UR - https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748907251/money-for-nothing-and-content-for-free SN - 978-3-7489-0725-1 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buschow, Christopher T1 - Practice-driven journalism research: Impulses for a dynamic understanding of journalism in the context of its reorganization JF - Studies in Communication Sciences N2 - This paper proposes a practice-theoretical journalism research approach for an alternate and innovative perspective of digital journalism’s current empirical challenges. The practice-theoretical approach is introduced by demonstrating its explanatory power in relation to demarcation problems, technological changes, economic challenges and challenges to journalism’s legitimacy. Its respective advantages in dealing with these problems are explained and then compared to established journalism theories. The particular relevance of the theoretical perspective is due to (1) its central decision to observe journalistic practices, (2) the transgression of conventional journalistic boundaries, (3) the denaturalization of journalistic norms and laws, (4) the explicit consideration of a material, socio-technical dimension of journalism, (5) a focus on the conflicting relationship between journalistic practices and media management practices, and (6) prioritizing order generation over stability. KW - Journalismus KW - journalism KW - journalism theories KW - practice theory KW - theory development KW - digitization Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200819-42162 UR - https://www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/article/view/j.scoms.2020.02.006 VL - 2020 SP - 1 EP - 15 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buschow, Christopher T1 - Why Do Digital Native News Media Fail? An Investigation of Failure in the Early Start-Up Phase JF - Media and Communication N2 - Digital native news media have great potential for improving journalism. Theoretically, they can be the sites where new products, novel revenue streams and alternative ways of organizing digital journalism are discovered, tested, and advanced. In practice, however, the situation appears to be more complicated. Besides the normal pressures facing new businesses, entrepreneurs in digital news are faced with specific challenges. Against the background of general and journalism specific entrepreneurship literature, and in light of a practice–theoretical approach, this qualitative case study research on 15 German digital native news media outlets empirically investigates what barriers curb their innovative capacity in the early start-up phase. In the new media organizations under study here, there are—among other problems—a high degree of homogeneity within founding teams, tensions between journalistic and economic practices, insufficient user orientation, as well as a tendency for organizations to be underfinanced. The patterns of failure investigated in this study can raise awareness, help news start-ups avoid common mistakes before actually entering the market, and help industry experts and investors to realistically estimate the potential of new ventures within the digital news industry. KW - Journalismus KW - Digitalisierung KW - Neue Medien KW - Entrepreneurship KW - digital-born news media KW - digital native news media KW - entrepreneurial journalism KW - news start-ups KW - practice theories KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2020 Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200417-41347 UR - https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2677 VL - 2020 IS - Volume 8, Issue 2 SP - 51 EP - 61 PB - Cogitatio Press CY - Lissabon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wellbrock, Christian-Mathias A1 - Arango Kure, Maria A1 - Buschow, Christopher T1 - Competition and Media Performance: A Cross-National Analysis of Corporate Goals of Media Companies in 12 Countries JF - International Journal of Communication N2 - Despite digitization and platformization, mass media and established media companies still play a crucial role in the provision of journalistic content in democratic societies. Competition is one key driver of (media) company behavior and is considered to have an impact on the media’s performance. However, theory and empirical research are ambiguous about the relationship. The objective of this article is to empirically analyze the effect of competition on media performance in a cross-national context. We assessed media performance of media companies as the importance of journalistic goals within their stated corporate goal system. We conducted a content analysis of letters to the shareholders in annual reports of more than 50 media companies from 2000 to 2014 to operationalize journalistic goal importance. When employing a fixed effects regression analysis, as well as a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis, results suggest that competition has a positive effect on the importance of journalistic goals, while the existence of a strong public service media sector appears to have the effect of “crowding out” commercial media companies. KW - Öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk KW - Wettbewerb KW - Leistungsverhalten KW - media performance KW - competition KW - public service media KW - fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis KW - fixed effects regression KW - Performance Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20201221-43175 UR - https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/13576 VL - 2020 IS - Vol 14 (2020) SP - 6154 EP - 6181 PB - USC, University of Southern California CY - Annenberg, California ER -