Economics of Media

Discussions of economic forces that shape mass media in the information age.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Remembering Barry Litman, who died Dec. 26

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Prof. Barry Litman used to sit quietly in meetings of my dissertation committee, holding a document I had labored over for days, waiting for...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Building A Newspaper’s Online Audience

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By Stephen Lacy Professor, Department of Communication and School of Journalism Michigan State University Newspapers are struggling with how...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Philly paper clarifies its plans for print vs. online

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Executives at the Philadelphia Inquirer have issued a second memo clarifying plans to restrict online publication of some expensive or exclu...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Information may be free, but that doesn't make it cheap

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Monday's New York Times took an unjustified swipe at a sister paper for plans to delay web publication of expensive to report or popular...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Mortgage crisis threatens media companies too

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The $20 billion deal to sell Clear Channel Communications, which owns hundreds of radio stations across the country, is fading, another pot...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Department of Justice OKs satellite radio merger, but isn't real clear about why

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The justice department has concluded consumers won't be hurt by the controversial proposal to merge both satellite radio companies, say...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

FCC Chairman Makes Lemonade from Lemon (at least for now)

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The Federal Communications Commission today voted to tighten regulation of cable companies, and ease regulation of newspaper and broadcast ...
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