Between Journalistic Diversity and Economic Constraints: Local Pure Players in Southern France

Smyrnaios, Nikos; Marty, Emmanuel; Bousquet, Franck

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“…The majority of the hyperlocals in our research made less than €35,000 and eight made more than €142,000. In keeping with other research, hyperlocals had diversified their revenue models (Smyrianos et al, 2015): 14 cases had five or more revenue streams. The most common model was three revenue streams.…”

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Bakker

2019

Nordicom Review

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Hyperlocal media are increasingly prominent in local media ecologies. However, economic pressures are their biggest challenge and are therefore our main thematic. The study is based on empirical data from 35 hyperlocals in Sweden, the UK, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. We present a conceptual framework of viable, sustainable and resilient models and find that hyperlocals are diversifying their revenues. Drawing on business ecosystems as a theoretical approach, we find these hyperlocals are surviving by forging symbiotic relationships with media, businesses, advertisers and communities in their environment. With its focus on imbalanced and evolving relations, the approach offers a broad framework to explain how hyperlocal business models are developing through a dynamic system of proximal interdependencies. The results contribute to new knowledge by explaining the revenue diversification of hyperlocals in the digital ecosystemic space.

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2019

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“…Second, we created an original data set that identified and catalogued the full range of online news startups in each city. In Toulouse, this was relatively easy given the small number of such entities identified by previous scholars (Smyrnaios et al, ). This procedure was more difficult in Seattle, which has seen a great deal of churn in its online news ecology.…”

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“…Bringing a cross‐national perspective to bear on this question, this article explores the degree to which startups have taken hold in similar cities embedded in two different media systems: Seattle, United States, and Toulouse, France. While Seattle has been home to a wave of online news startups (Friedland, ), in Toulouse there have been just four—and all but one has ceased publication (Smyrnaios, Marty, & Bousquet, ). Through interviews with journalists, analysis of news articles and an original data set detailing the educational and professional backgrounds of startup founders, we examine differential startup formation in France and the United States.…”

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“…On its face, the differences are puzzling. Both cities are in markets where media have lost considerable proportions of their circulation and advertising revenues (Durkin, Glaisyer, & Hadge, ; Smyrnaios & Bousquet, ). In both, too, Internet access is high and growing over time, as are online advertising expenditures (Bruno & Nielsen, ; Friedland, ).…”

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“…In both, too, Internet access is high and growing over time, as are online advertising expenditures (Bruno & Nielsen, ; Friedland, ). While job losses have been greater in Seattle, precarious employment is a feature of journalism in both cities (Powers, Vera Zambrano, & Baisnée, ), and journalists generally accept that the future of journalism is online (Fancher, ; Smyrnaios & Bousquet, ). Finally, both cities are home to sizeable aeronautics and information technology sectors, which drive population growth and attract well‐educated young people whose news consumption habits are increasingly digital.…”

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