Profit Motive Considerations

From Digital Culture & Society

Context Statement

My topic is the financial incentives in journalism and news, and how the profit motive affects quality of news and clickbait headlines. I will discuss the effects of virality versus value in journalism and news, by evaluating the use and effects of non-profit organizations and how they benefit journalism and the public as a whole. I will also analyze a series of studies that determine the positives and negatives of for-profit and non-profit news and how much profit motives have a factor in the quality of journalism.

Articles

Escaping the news desert: Nonprofit news and open-system journalism organizations

Filling the Void

Journalism as a Public Good: How the Nonprofit News Model Can Save Us from Ourselves