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The Origins of the Print Media Crisis
There is an observation - from a few years ago - that is as ironic as it is dramatic, made by a famous journalism studies researcher, that goes more or less like this: to speak of a crisis for print media is an optimistic understatement of reality. In the Italian case, an additional qualification must be made: the print media sector has never had a particularly leading role. The historical causes ...
The Cost of Ignorance
Italy is at the bottom of the rankings in Europe as regards school abandonment. We are fourth from last, with a percentage of 14.5 percent, and still far from reaching the goal of 10 percent set for 2020. The only countries worse than us are Spain, Malta, and Romania.[1] This is not recent news, and like all other news, after having made the headlines of some newspapers for a few days, it then disappeared ...
A Predictable Decline and the Strategy of Newspapers
The crisis of newspapers has generated a broad debate in the world of journalism[1] and academics[2] that revolves around the following questions: will newspapers survive? If so, in what form? If not, what will the consequences be for the sector and for democratic systems?[3] To respond to these questions it is necessary to go back to the middle of the 1990s, when daily newspapers decided to ...
The Triumph of Subjectivity (and of the Smartphone)
I hadn’t realized how difficult it was to write about the historical evolution of the circulation of newspapers. I thought I could trust the enormous attention dedicated to the issue for years and decades; not only in the world of experts on the subject, but a bit in all segments of sociopolitical and mass communication culture. Yet I practically found a desert. There are no definitive studies ...