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13 Current Media Business Models in the Digital Age – the Takeaways for Bulgaria
ISSN: 2603 - 3801
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13 Current Media Business Models in the Digital Age – the Takeaways for Bulgaria
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Publisher: 21st Century Media And Communications St. Cyril And St. Me..
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Abstract
The study seeks an answer to the current problem of the deepening global crisis of classic media business models in the digital age and the need to seek sustainable new forms of financing. This state of the journalistic media, resp. of quality journalism is the result of competition from the Internet and major online platforms, but also from acute financial crises, the most recent one caused by Covid-19. They hit the two market foundations of the media company the hardest – advertising and sales. Financially afflicted media repel citizens and are a direct threat to democracy. Weakened, they fall under external dependence, and cannot control the politicians and those in power; neither can they oppose the viral spread of misinformation and fake news on social media. The main research question is “Is it possible – and in what way – to save the media financially in the digital age?†13 current media-financing models with an emph...
