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Web-enabled and mobile media

Mass Communication and Journalism (Code 63) · Unit 8 · ~11 min read · Original chapter

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A news site earns from subscriptions, a creator earns from a platform's revenue share, and a reader gets news free but pays with attention and data — three business models, one mobile screen. This chapter covers the economics and commerce of web-enabled media, mobile adaptation and new-generation telephony, and the ethics of new media, using one local news start-up's first year as the running example.

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