Since 2012 I have been working as a professor of the Center for Digital Journalism of the University of Guadalajara. Within spring I teach the course “Business Plans for Digital Media” and in summer “New Revenue Models for the Digital Media”. The core of both courses is the economic dimension of digital media.
As an extension of my academic activities in the University of Guadalajara, Rosalía Orozco, the director of the Digital Journalism Center, invited me to write a chapter for the book Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Journalism. Hence, I wrote an article about the historical changes in the value chain of artisanal newspapers, industrial newspapers, and post-industrial newspapers.
The name of the article is “Changes in the Political Economy of Journalism: Pre-industrial, Industrial, and Post-Industrial Newspapers (Spanish)”, and here you can read the abstract: “Historically, the press has been one of the most important means of communication in contemporary societies. Since the 1990’s, the newspapers’ industry faced a new context marked by technological convergence and financial globalization, which gave way to a post-industrial journalistic model. This article sets out the main features of value chains in the production of newspapers in the pre-industrial, industrial, and post-industrial stages. In the last part of the text I suggest some research lines in order to have a better understanding of the newspapers’ production political economy.”
Larrosa-Fuentes, J. S. (2014). Changes in the Political Economy of Journalism: Pre-industrial, Industrial, and Post-Industrial Newspapers (Spanish). In R. Orozco Murillo (Ed.), Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Journalism (pp. 71–86). Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara.