Open AccessFrom Financialization to Low and Non-Profit: Emerging Media Models for Freedom
Author(s) -
Núria Almiron-Roig
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
triplec
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.564
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 1726-670X
DOI - 10.31269/triplec.v9i1.235
Subject(s) - financialization , mainstream , unison , globe , journalism , profit (economics) , financial crisis , profit motive , economics , business model , public relations , business , political economy , political science , market economy , management , neoclassical economics , advertising , law , medicine , physics , macroeconomics , acoustics , ophthalmology
In the midst of what is probably the worst economic and financial crisis the capitalist world has ever experienced, professional journalistic structures and news organizations are disintegrating. While mainstream current economic and media gurus –and the whole media executive class around the globe– are claiming for a business model change that allows them to go on making lots of money, many voices have been raised in unison to ask for a true radical change: money cannot be the first goal, but rather public interest. This paper presents the outcome of a research on the non-profit alternatives currently under debate destined to help journalism survive.