In open-source endowed research positions, professors release all of their intellectual property. Surveys of academics in the U.S. and Canada find most like the idea.
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Podcasting exploded due to the lack of gatekeepers. Now big tech companies are starting to act like traditional media networks, signing popular hosts to exclusive contracts and establishing paywalls.
In many other countries, a majority of research publications are now open access, but the system of paying for access still dominates academic publishing in Australia.
Canada’s news industry has been decimated by losses of advertising revenue during the pandemic. There are some promising signs, however, that more Canadians are paying for digital news subscriptions.
Canadians have relatively high trust in their media compared to other countries, but that doesn’t translate into a willingness to pay for online news.
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Professor and Director, Centre d'études sur les médias, Université Laval
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John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University
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Director of Research, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
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Program Lead, Innovation in Knowledge Communication, Curtin University
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Professor of Media and Communication, Muhlenberg College
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Senior Lecturer in Radio, University of Sunderland
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Professor of Practice in Journalism and Mass Communication, American University in Cairo
