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Following on my previous post: there is, of course, nothing wrong with trying to captivate the greatest possible number viewers/listeners/readers. That is by definition what mass media is supposed to do. But what if the days of mass media are numbered... In Steve Borris' words: "The
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Americans blame the media for giving too much space to celebrity scandals. That is, if we are to believe a survey by Pew research centre where 87 per cent of the respondents felt media didn't get the balance between celebrity and serious news right (via Roy Greenslade). I
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Media websites often go to great lengths to make those eyeballs linger, but here's a novel one: forget all the accusations of how media is sacrificing serious news for celebrity scandal, ever heard of the celebrity rag who plan to seduce readers into spending more time on its
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Last month Norwegian media group A-pressen was heavily criticised for indirectly supporting Putin via its involvement in Russia. Now it seems A-pressen - a group owned by the Labour Union, the partly state-owned Telenor and free speech charity Fritt Ord - will sell its 25 per cent stake in Russia&
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Here's another interesting acquisition, good thing I'm not the only one to be working through the holidays: Jupitermedia buys Mediabistro for $23m. Can't say I agree with the headline for this article though: 'Website for jobseekers sold'. Mediabistro is much more than
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Meanwhile, and yes, have to stop this journalistic obsession with M&As soon, Mecom edged one step closer to acquiring Wegener yesterday, when the Dutch Financial Authorities granted the British newspaper group an exemption from the requirement to submit a formal bid within six weeks of announcing ït. The
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Yet again, we hear tidings that former Mirror-boss, David Montgomery, continues his march across Euorpe. This time the tidings come from France, where his investment vehicle, Mecom, apparently is embroiled in a bidding war with the French Hersant Media Group (GHM) for a number of French regional papers owned by
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Today may also become a black Monday for Norwegian media group Schibsted, as the country's Media Authority is due to give its verdict on the media company's prolonged efforts to create giant media group Media Norway. The merger would see Schibsted's national Aftenposten partner
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CHICAGO For all the sexy testimony about a Bora Bora vacation on the company's dime and a lavish Park Avenue apartment bought at a suspiciously low price, the center of the case against former media baron Conrad Black comes down to a decidedly unglamorous topic: Non-compete payments. Black
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"To be a journalist is something everyone can accomplish. Even a monkey can become a journalist," Swedish TV-host Robert Aschberg to Dagbladet (no direct link available yet). 'I was politically active for many years... then a friend suggested that I should become a journalist. I thought it
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Swedish media giant Bonnier continues its foreign expansion and has partnered with the likes of Audax Publishing and Betapress to crack the Dutch magazine market. To start with, Bonnier is bringing its popular science magazine Illustrated Science, already performing to the publishers satisfaction in the Nordic countries, Latvia and Greece,
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In Denmark, the opposition parties think they've found the ultimate solution to funding public broadcasting: shift the burden of proof – guilty until you've proved your innocent of owning a device that can be used to receive public TV and radio (via Berlingske). Some wise soul, or