Patrick White, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Journalism is not keeping pace with the evolution of new technologies. Newsrooms need to take advantage of what AI can offer and come up with a new business model.
Netflix faces many new challengers in the subscription-based video streaming market.
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Netflix has added millions more subscribers as people practice social isolation to control the coronavirus. But service’s diverse menu of content is not an efficient business model.
The appetite for smart local news is there. The challenge is figuring out how to make it profitable.
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Americans truly value local news. But 71% think that their local news outlets are doing just fine financially – which might explain why only 14% paid for a local news source in the past year.
Alan Soon of Splice Media is promising a million dollars to give to start-ups to transform media in Asia.
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What does the future newsroom look like?
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We often hear about media companies shedding staff and revenues, but is there hope? We ask the man with a mission to launch 100 media start-ups in three years: what does the future newsroom look like?
Only the competition regulator stands in the way of further media concentration in Australia, but few expect the first of probably a number of mergers to be blocked.
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Australian media ownership is already among the most concentrated in the world, but if the competition regulator approves the Nine-Fairfax deal, expect the race for survival to produce more mergers.
It worked for ‘iTunes’, but news organisations experimenting with ‘pay-to-read’ models are finding that users want to have a say in what makes the news.
Netflix is spending big on original content to attract new users around the world.
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