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Coming of Age: Developments in Digital-Born News Media in Europe

DOI: 10.60625/risj-70wt-h173

How are digital news sites learning to survive in a tough online media environment? This report examines 13 digital-born news media organisations across four European countries: France, Germany, Spain, and the UK building on a report on this sector two years ago. It analyses both editorial and business strategy in order to understand the unique but shifting set of challenges faced by online news outlets without legacy operations. 

 

Published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism with the support of the Google News Initiative.

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Business of news
Audience Engagement
Platforms and social media
Germany
Spain
United Kingdom
France
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Meet the authors

Dr Tom Nicholls

Tom Nicholls is a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He is a political scientist whose main research interests include the dynamics of digital news and developing new methodological approaches to studying online... Read more about Dr Tom Nicholls

Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is a Professor at the Department of Communication of the University of Copenhagen and a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Before leaving Oxford in 2024, he worked at the Institute,... Read more about Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Dr Lucas Graves

Dr Lucas Graves is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He was the former Acting Head of Research at the Reuters Institute. He is a communication scholar and former magazine journalist who studies how news and... Read more about Dr Lucas Graves

Nabeelah Shabbir

Nabeelah Shabbir is freelance journalist, and also currently Deputy Director of Research at the International Center of Journalists (ICFJ). She was previously Conversation Editor at the Correspondent and has also worked at the Guardian, where she... Read more about Nabeelah Shabbir

Authors

Dr Tom Nicholls

Research Associate

Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Senior Research Associate

Dr Lucas Graves

Research Associate

Nabeelah Shabbir

Freelance journalist, and Deputy Director of Research, ICFJ