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    Chasing

    sustainability

    on the net

    Easirkkunen

    &

    Clare

    Cook

    (d)

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    Chasing

    Sustainabilityon the NetInternational research on 6 journalistic

    pure players and their business models

    Editors:

    Esa Sirkkunen, Research Centre COMET, University o Tampere, Finland

    Clare Cook, University o Central Lancashire, United Kingdom

    Database project lead:

    Pekka Pekkala, USC Annenberg, USA

    Contributing authors:

    Mikihito Tanaka, Waseda University, Japan

    Johanna Vehkoo, UK

    Nicola Bruno, Italy

    Luchino Sivori, Spain

    Leader o the project:

    Proessor Risto Kunelius, University o Tampere, Finland

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    Layout and graphic design:

    Teemu Helenius

    Juvenes Print

    Tampere 1

    ISBN -51--6- (PDF)

    http://www.thelenius.net/http://www.thelenius.net/
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    Contents

    . Introduction Esa Sirkkunen, Clare Cook and Pekka Pekkala

    . Diversifed media landscapes

    .1. Overview o media systems 1

    Esa Sirkkunen

    .. USA: Moderate success ater a long crisis 1

    Pekka Pekkala

    .. Japan: Journo-based and journo-oriented

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    .. UK: Big media riends

    Johanna Vehkoo and Clare Cook

    .5. France: Tensions and diversity 5

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    .6. Italy: An unfnished transition 6

    Nicola Bruno

    .. Spain: Enthusiasm and ragility

    Luchino Svori

    .. Finland: Legacy dominates

    Esa Sirkkunen

    . Revenue sources Clare Cook and Esa Sirkkunen

    . Sustaining journalistic entrepreneurship 0Pekka Pekkala and Clare Cook

    . Conclusions Clare Cook, Esa Sirkkunen and Pekka Pekkala

    About the authors

    Appendices

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    . USA: Moderate success atera long crisisPekka Pekkala

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    and consulting are emerging.

    Frugality is key. Costs are kept down and newsroom growth is in sync with

    growing revenues, not with expected revenues.

    Theres very little promise in citizen contributions i youre running a small,

    niche web site. Contributions are sporadic and the one-man-publisher-

    editor model seems to create most o the stories by themselves.

    Niche sites seem to enjoy strong community support, which can be backed up

    with inancial support. People are willing to pay small sums to support the pub-

    lications, in a orm o exclusive access or newsletter. People pay to be part o the

    community and support a publication they think is important and worthwhile.

    Entrepreneurial thinking remains a problem. Traditional newsroom work

    doesnt require any business intelligence and journalists start their entre-

    preneurial path rom zero. It takes time or them to realize that they are

    probably the best people to run the business side o things as well as the

    editorial. A business mindset grows gradually. The skills are there but they

    need time to develop.

    The case studies included are: TheBatavian.com, DavidsonNews.net,

    MedCityNews.com, Ars Technica, BargainBabe.com, Technically Philly,

    ArtsJournal.com, PatientPower.ino, MedCityNews.com

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    they are trialling several other business models to acquire sustainability.

    Currently many sites have moved towards a reemium model, but this is not

    without problems.

    Many small and medium-sized news sites including alternative journalism

    sites are partly dependent on its news distribution to portal sites or legacy

    media. Because o Japans barely there donation culture, citizen and alterna-

    tive journalism sites are struggling to survive, although they are attempting

    to disperse risk by using several proit models at the same time.

    By inventing new web architecture some subculture sites have been great

    successes. In these cases, more journalistic agendas were put in place ater

    their success.

    Apart rom economical sustainability, Japanese online journalism culture

    is acing several challenges or its sustainability. For example, training,

    supplying and the livelihood o young journalists in online culture is a key

    problem.

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    opinion sphere to bridge the gap between nationalism and globalism.

    The case studies include: A Power Magazine, Nanapi, Rocket News, Webronza,

    Record China, Niwango, Our Planet TV, 47news, CB News, Gigazine, JB Press,Blogos, Sankei Digital, Natalie, Videonews.com.

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    . UK: Big media riendsJohanna Vehkoo and Clare Cook

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    between startups and legacy media players is collaborative rather than

    competitive.

    The B2B (business-to-business) approach is very visible in the business

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    The case studies include: Lichield Community Media, Hackney Citizen,

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    Digital, Journalism.co.uk, Audioboo, Landscape Juice, Not on the Wires,

    Talk to the Press, Womens Views On News, Alderleyedge.com.

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    The case studies include: Rue89, MediaPart, AgoraVox, Citizenside, Dijon-scope, ThisFrenchLie.

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