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creators_name: Bisceglia, Michele
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title: The unbundling of journalism
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abstract: 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.
date: 2023-09
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
id_number: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104532
official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/130278
faculty: tse
divisions: tse
keywords: Online news
keywords: Unbundling
keywords: News quality
keywords: Newsgathering
language: en
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doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104532
subjectsJEL: JEL_D43
subjectsJEL: JEL_L82
subjectsJEL: JEL_L86
view_date_year: 2023
full_text_status: none
publication: European Economic Review
volume: Vol. 158
number: 104532
place_of_pub: Amsterdam
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issn: 0014-2921
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citation:   Bisceglia, Michele <https://www.idref.fr/27106238X>  (2023) The unbundling of journalism.    European Economic Review, Vol. 158 (104532).