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  - 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  -