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For some time now, the news sector is believed to be in a period of deap-seated change (Preston 2009), the drivers of which are a continuously dropping audience, an evolution towards free news, failing alternative revenue models, a slow migration of advertisers to the online medium reinforced by the current economic crisis and changes in the news production process and changing patterns of news use [Preston 2009; see also Bruns (2008), Meikle and Redden (2010), Picard (2010), Heinonen (2011)].
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Picone, I., Pauwels, C. (2013). Belgium: Big Changes in a Small News Economy. In: Murschetz, P. (eds) State Aid for Newspapers. Media Business and Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35691-9_10
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