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Why do digital native news media fail? : an investigation of failure in the early start-up phase
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.8631
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Publikationsdatum
2020-01-01
Sprache
English
Author
Enthalten in
Volume
8
Issue
2
Start Page
51
End Page
61
Citation
Media and Communication 8 (2): 51-61 (2020)
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Scopus ID
Publisher
Cogitatio Press
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 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.
Schlagworte
Digital-born news media
Digital native news media
Entrepreneurial journalism
News start-ups
Practice theories
DDC Class
070: Journalism and Publishing
020: Library and Information Sciences
330: Economics
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