This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Internet on media and mediated content industries. It explores and discusses the changes this emergent communications platform is engendering for the media and content industries and the implications of those changes. Its contents...

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...

This article explores the impact of the recession of 1990-1991 on U.S. newspaper firms and seeks to determine whether the sizes of the firms or the degree of diversification affected their financial performance during the economic downturn. Using data from 15 publicly traded companies before,...

This article explores the effects of recessions in developed nations since 1989 to determine how advertising expenditures are related to recessions and whether expenditures for different media are affected differently. The study finds that advertising expenditures (in constant currency) declined...

The 1990s saw increases in thefts of newspapers. In some cases, the prosecutors did not bring charges because they misunderstood the value of newspapers. This article addresses legal and economic issues surrounding theft of newspapers, and it develops a set of equations for estimating the...

This article challenges the traditional illustration of the relations between circulation size and advertising rates used by educators. It does so by using a sample of newspapers and explores various regression trendlines and data display of the data obtained from the sample. I find that the...

Enforcement of copyright and related intellectual property rights is designed to halt loss of economic value to the rights holders. This article explores the nature of losses when protected works are stolen, infringed, or pirated and how the losses differ significantly for materials in physical...

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...