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Between scylla and charybdis? covid-induced economic pressures threatening the media in Portugal

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dc.contributor.authorNovais, Rui Alexandre
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-02T17:05:47Z
dc.date.available2023-02-02T17:05:47Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe European Commission Vice-President conveyed a worrying diagnosis of the news media in her 2021 speech at the Media4Europe Summit. According to Vĕra Jourová, the pandemic further exacerbated the economic crisis of the press sector that had started well before (EuropeMediaLab, 2021). Adding to the considerable income losses in recent decades, the plunging of the advertising revenues of the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the already grim financial situation experienced by the generality of the media sector (Olsen et al., 2020) and threatened to become an ‘extinction event’ (Ahmed, 2020) particularly to the printed press. As a result of the extraordinary scenario, some countries, like Portugal, introduced a temporary aid measure to cushion the economic impact of the pandemic and support professional news journalism in the public interest. Such government intervention in the form of financial support raised some doubts about their effectiveness and state dependency of the press in the long run, and it unveiled the prevailing split in terms of the economic orientation philosophy of the press firms in facing the media industry problems (Holtz-Bacha, 2021, p.44; Murschetz, 2020). Against this backdrop, this study aims to reveal how the media managers in the Portugal dealt with the problematic decision to whether accept some of the exceptional aid to cope with COVID-induced economic pressures or struggle to survive without some form of public support.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn9789963711963
dc.identifier.issn2547-8516
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/40092
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherEUROMED Presspt_PT
dc.relationRisks for journalism; economic threats; COVID19; Portuguese press; state funding; press independence; managers’/dillematic decision-makingpt_PT
dc.subjectRisks for journalismpt_PT
dc.subjectEconomic threatspt_PT
dc.subjectCOVID19pt_PT
dc.subjectPortuguese presspt_PT
dc.subjectState fundingpt_PT
dc.subjectPress independencept_PT
dc.subjectManagers’/dillematic decision-makingpt_PT
dc.titleBetween scylla and charybdis? covid-induced economic pressures threatening the media in Portugalpt_PT
dc.typeconference object
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage1262pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage1258pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleSustainable business concepts and practices: 15th euromed academy of business conference book of proceedingspt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typeconferenceObjectpt_PT

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