RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104532
A1 Bisceglia, Michele
T1 The unbundling of journalism
JF European Economic Review
YR 2023
FD 2023-09
VO Vol. 158
IS 104532
K1 Online news
K1 Unbundling
K1 News quality
K1 Newsgathering
AB Due to the switching behavior of online consumers, news outlets increasingly compete with each other to attract audience for each single news item they produce, rather than for complete editions of their newspapers: the so called unbundling of journalism. Using a standard Hotelling model, I show that online competition unambiguously reduces news articles’ quality, as compared to the scenario in which outlets compete to sell their newspapers (content bundles) to single-homing consumers. The unbundling of journalism also dampens outlets’ newsgathering activities when their ideological positions are relatively unimportant from consumers’ viewpoint. In this case, consumers are worse off in the online market for news, even though they consume more articles and have low disutility from switching.
PB Elsevier
SN 0014-2921
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/50352/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/130278