This chapter examines some of the symptoms and causes of the crisis facing newspapers via analyses of their finances and of audience measures. The consequences of the crisis, and whether there are any realistic remedies, are also considered, both in relation to journalism as a product and to the...

The impact of the BBC on the UK television market will figure prominently in discussions of the BBC Charter Renewal and a number of critics have argued that its scale and scope should be reduced. This report is the first research study to measure the impact of the BBC on the market and project...

Since the advent of the Internet, numerous media organizations have been forced to adopt new business models and convert into not-for-profit start-ups or hybrid entities. However, not-for-profit news organizations have faced an important challenge: outdated legal frameworks that were not...

Freedom of expression and press freedom are influenced by economic and power arrangements in society and the information age is not altering that fundamental principle. The social, economic, and technical changes underlying information society are altering some existing structural arrangements...

This article explores methods and issues in measuring the contributions of copyright industries to national economies. It reveals the importance of copyright value creation, identifies copyright industries and activities that make economic contributions, discusses problems of measurement,...

What are the various impacts of a massive deployment of ICT solutions in the health sector on the objectives of various initiators, investors, and project developers? To get the answer to this question, a robust and multidimensional model needed to be developed to evaluate planned technology...