The Conclusion of this book is closely connected to Chapter 1. As expressed in the Introduction, these chapters, serving as bookends, are designed to be read in conjunction with each other. In this Conclusion, I reflect upon the six building blocks of journalism innovation – resources, technology, organisation, management, culture, and business model – while summing up the empirical chapters of the book. In response to our overarching research question asking how Norwegian news media responded to the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of innovation and value creation, we have found that the crisis served as a catalyst for innovation, a critical test of resilience, and an amplifier of value creation. Based on the insights from our empirical studies, we conclude that the crisis stimulated renewal and transformation, which changed – at least in the short term – how news media operated and created value, economically as well as socially.
Authors
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.48335/9789188855923-c
- ISBN
- : 978-91-88855-91-6 (print) : 978-91-88855-92-3 (electronic) : 978-91-88855-93-0 (electronic)
- OAI
- oai:DiVA.org:norden-13152
- Published in
- Denmark
- Responsible organisation
- Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research (NORDICOM)
- URN
- urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-13152
- Year
- 2024
- pages
- 165-182
Table of Contents
- Making sense of a crisis 1
- Abstract 1
- Lessons learned from an unprecedented crisis 2
- News media’s ability to innovate and cope with the Covid-19 crisis 3
- News media’s ability to bounce back, forward, and beyond amid the crisis 4
- News workers ability to reorganise to cope with the crisis 5
- News media’s ability to create economic value amid the crisis 6
- News media’s ability to innovate in response to audiences’ information needs 7
- News media’s ability to create value for employees amid the crisis 8
- New managers’ ability for “do-better” and “do-different” innovations 9
- The crisis as a catalyst for innovation 10
- The crisis as an amplifier for value creation 12
- The crisis as a test of resilience 13
- Concluding remarks and directions for further research 15
- References 17
