Why Do Digital Native News Media Fail? An Investigation of Failure in the Early Start-Up Phase
- 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 areDigital 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.…
Document Type: | Article |
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Author: | Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christopher BuschowORCiDGND |
DOI (Cite-Link): | https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2677Cite-Link |
URN (Cite-Link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200417-41347Cite-Link |
URL: | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2677 |
Parent Title (English): | Media and Communication |
Publisher: | Cogitatio Press |
Place of publication: | Lissabon |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2020/04/16 |
Date of first Publication: | 2020/04/16 |
Release Date: | 2020/04/17 |
Publishing Institution: | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
Institutes and partner institutions: | Fakultät Medien / Junior-Professur Organisation und vernetzte Medien |
Volume: | 2020 |
Issue: | Volume 8, Issue 2 |
Pagenumber: | 11 |
First Page: | 51 |
Last Page: | 61 |
Tag: | OA-Publikationsfonds2020 digital native news media; digital-born news media; entrepreneurial journalism; news start-ups; practice theories |
GND Keyword: | Journalismus; Digitalisierung; Neue Medien; Entrepreneurship |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen |
BKL-Classification: | 05 Kommunikationswissenschaft / 05.30 Massenkommunikation, Massenmedien: Allgemeines |
Open Access Publikationsfonds: | Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2020 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons 4.0 - Namensnennung (CC BY 4.0) |