Why Do Digital Native News Media Fail? An Investigation of Failure in the Early Start-Up Phase

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Autor(a) principal: Buschow, Christopher
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2677
Resumo: 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.
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title Why Do Digital Native News Media Fail? An Investigation of Failure in the Early Start-Up Phase
spellingShingle Why Do Digital Native News Media Fail? An Investigation of Failure in the Early Start-Up Phase
Buschow, Christopher
digital-born news media; digital native news media; entrepreneurial journalism; news start-ups; practice theories
title_short Why Do Digital Native News Media Fail? An Investigation of Failure in the Early Start-Up Phase
title_full Why Do Digital Native News Media Fail? An Investigation of Failure in the Early Start-Up Phase
title_fullStr Why Do Digital Native News Media Fail? An Investigation of Failure in the Early Start-Up Phase
title_full_unstemmed Why Do Digital Native News Media Fail? An Investigation of Failure in the Early Start-Up Phase
title_sort Why Do Digital Native News Media Fail? An Investigation of Failure in the Early Start-Up Phase
author Buschow, Christopher
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv digital-born news media; digital native news media; entrepreneurial journalism; news start-ups; practice theories
topic digital-born news media; digital native news media; entrepreneurial journalism; news start-ups; practice theories
description 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.
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