Journalism in the UK in full disruption
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:20 am
Here are the main lessons to remember for “a sustainable future for journalism” .
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The Cairncross report, drawn up by a university journalist macedonia cell phone number list at the request of the Prime Minister, returns to the importance of journalism in a democracy. It is vital. Necessary. It defends a journalism of "excellence" so that the regime is as holy as possible, responding to codes, practices, standards allowing to give legitimacy to the profession. But it is above all on the notion of information of general interest that this report is in question. This type of information would thus be in danger in the United Kingdom.
Like most Western countries, the British press has been hit hard by the arrival of the Internet , which has impacted its economic model. With a drastic drop in advertising revenues in print format, it is still struggling to compensate for losses in digital. Since advertising revenues are mainly captured by web giants, it has had to make savings. That is to say, to the detriment of investments it could have made to support its digital transformation or by cutting back on information costs (- 6,000 journalists since 2007 in the United Kingdom).
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The Cairncross report, drawn up by a university journalist macedonia cell phone number list at the request of the Prime Minister, returns to the importance of journalism in a democracy. It is vital. Necessary. It defends a journalism of "excellence" so that the regime is as holy as possible, responding to codes, practices, standards allowing to give legitimacy to the profession. But it is above all on the notion of information of general interest that this report is in question. This type of information would thus be in danger in the United Kingdom.
Like most Western countries, the British press has been hit hard by the arrival of the Internet , which has impacted its economic model. With a drastic drop in advertising revenues in print format, it is still struggling to compensate for losses in digital. Since advertising revenues are mainly captured by web giants, it has had to make savings. That is to say, to the detriment of investments it could have made to support its digital transformation or by cutting back on information costs (- 6,000 journalists since 2007 in the United Kingdom).