Software startuppers took the medias paycheck Medias fightback happens through startup culture and abstraction shifts

TL;DR

This paper explores how media, network industries, and startups can collaborate through strategic alliances to revitalize journalism and create new industry opportunities by leveraging startup culture and abstraction shifts.

Contribution

It proposes a novel collaborative model involving media, network manufacturers, and startups to innovate journalism and industry structures.

Findings

Media industries have shifted from print to mobile access.

Network manufacturers and operators face stagnation and seek new business models.

Startup-driven abstraction shifts can catalyze industry renewal.

Abstract

The collapse of old print media and journalism happened when the Internet, its solutions, services and communities became mature and mobile devices reached the market. The reader abandoned printed dailies for free and mobile access to information. The business of core industries of the early Internet and mobile communication, the mobile network manufacturers and operators are also in stagnation and decline. Therefore these industries may have similar interests to improve or even restructure their own businesses as well as to establish totally new business models by going into media and journalism. This paper analyses, first, the production flows and business models of the old and present media species. Second, it analyses the current market positioning of the network manufacturers and operators. Third, the paper suggests two avenues for media and journalism and the network manufacturers and operators, the Trio, to join their forces to update journalism and make all three stagnating industries great again. Last, we propose further research, development and discussion on the topic and envision possible futures for journalism, if the three would engage in cooperation. We see that the discussion should consist of ethical, societal and philosophical subjects because the development of the Internet solutions are based on 'technology first' actions. We find and outline a tremendous opportunity to create a new industry with new actors through combining the interests of the network manufacturers, network operators and journalism in a systemic solution through a strategic alliance and collaboration Fig. 1. Software startuppers with their applications and communities will be the drivers for this abstraction shift in media and journalism.