Models
Journalism Abroad
Econ 101
Econ 201 (Theory)
Wildcard
100
Employed by many large news providers, this model restricts access to some or all of its online content to paying subscribers.
What is paywall?
100
A popular micro blogging service banned in China.
What is Twitter?
100
This type of good is “defined by a lack of both rivalry and exclusion in consumption...One person’s consumption of this type of good does not diminish the ability of another to consume the good.”
What is a public good?
100
In the context of the policy lever, regulation of ownership structures, regulation measures are meant to have an impact on this area of the news coverage.
What is content?
100
Consumption of this type of good “prevents another’s consumption (of the good), and one cannot consume the good without paying for it.
What is a private good?
200
This type of journalism maintains a focus on building new, internet-native metropolitan news organizations supported by philanthropy.
What is philanthrojournalism?
200
This country boasts the world’s fastest growing newspaper market.
What is India?
200
A dual-product marketplace is concerned with buying and selling of content and _________.
What is audiences?
200
A consumer searching for a good movie to see this weekend buys a newspaper to read the movie reviews. He is exhibiting this one of the four information demands.
What is entertainment demand?
200
An organization that publishes leaked documents supplied to it anonymously.
What is WikiLeaks?
300
This model grants print subscribers free access to digital editions of the same content.
What is all access?
300
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What is the subscription model?
300
In the news industry, business staff are driven by this noun.
What is profit?
300
The Freedom of Information Act provides journalists with access to this valuable information.
What is government data?
300
The shift in the journalism industry from depending on selling copies to generate revenue to selling _____ instead.
What is ad space/advertisements?
400
The ability to ask frequent users to pay for online news access without putting off casual users who attract advertisers is one of the pros of this model
What is metered paywall?
400
This group controls 60% of Russia’s newspapers and owns stakes in all six national television stations.
What is The Kremlin?
400
News organizations engage in this when they monitor and assess customers and resources, scrutinize the organization’s efficiency, and share information across the organization’s divisions to shed light on problems and determine the best solutions.
What is tight coupling?
400
This type of enforcement focuses on markets where consumers are damaged by business actions that raise price above the marginal cost of the provision of a good.
What is antitrust enforcement?
400
The original “penny paper”, a publication featured a mix of crime reports and human-interest stories to appeal to a mass audience.
What is The Sun?
500
When it comes to ownership, this model assumes that profit-maximizing news media outlets value audiences based on consumers’ willingness to pay for information or marketability to advertisers.
What is the spatial model?
500
According to the OECD, a club of developed countries, newspaper revenues fell by 10% in this country (The Economist Special Report).
What is Germany?
500
When employing this economic approach, responses to uncertainty in the news industry might include: traversing boundaries, increasing monitoring and knowledge sharing.
What is the rational-choice approach?
500
News stories traditionally answer 5 questions: who, what, where, when and why. While economic models have 4 of their own essential building blocks: ______ and _____ (give 2 of the 4).
What is tastes, endowments, technologies and institutions?
500
Dubbed a “newspaper killer” and “the exploder of journalism”, this individual founded the 9th most popular website in the America.
Who is Craig Newmark?
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