Online Journalism: Chances and Challenges
August 17 Tuesday
Date/time
August 17 - 20, 2010
Loc.
UTAR, PJ Campus, Malaysia
Type
Seminar
Over the last few years, social media, blogs and online newspapers vastly increased the number of competitors reaching given audiences.
Also available in Deutsch
The Internet has lowered the barriers for the market entry of new publishers to almost zero. Yet, one thing hasn’t changed: All players need to make money to provide for quality. Unfortunately, “making money” also hasn’t changed a lot: The Media provide access to audiences – and get paid for it. Publishers – no matter if traditional, mainstream, independent or social - facilitate the communication between advertisers and their clients. Therefore, audience is still crucial! Yet, building audiences is getting harder by the minute. What’s more, advertisers are still reluctant to pay the price for online audiences.
Contact person
Paul Linnarz
Director Media Programme Asia
Britt Gehder
Programme Officer