news unavailability

This is a list of my publications on this topic.

Forbidden Fruit or Soured Grapes: Long-term Effects of the Temporary Unavailability and Rationing of US News Websites on their Consumption from the European Union

In May 2018, hundreds of websites located outside the European Union (EU), including USAToday.com, became completely or partially unavailable to EU citizens as a number of publishers decided to comply with an EU data protection regulation (GDPR) by …

Effects of a Magazine’s Move to Online-Only: Post-Print Audience Attention and Readership Retention Revisited

For financial reasons, newspapers and magazines are increasingly going online-only. By doing so, some have returned to profitability, but with what consequences for their audiences? To expand the scant evidence base, we conducted a case study of the …

Are Newspapers Heading Towards Post-Print Obscurity? A Case-Study of The Independent’s Transition to Online-Only

With print circulations in decline and the print advertising market shrinking, newspapers in many countries are under pressure. Some—like Finland’s Taloussanomat and Canada’s La Presse—have decided to stop printing and go online-only. Others, like …