Background Note | HBS Case Collection | 2007 (Revised from original 2006 version)

Where to Get Your News and Information: The Digital Disruption

by Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett

Abstract

What is the response by traditional news and information deliverers (newspapers and television networks) to declining audiences as media consumption moves to the digital medium? Provides a view of the news industry in mid-2006 and discusses the impact of an increasingly fractured media landscape and various media format's ability to capture advertising dollars. Both offline and online entities are discussed.

Keywords: News; Media; Emerging Markets; Internet; Disruption; Perspective; Advertising; Journalism and News Industry;

Citation:

Bradley, Stephen P., and Nancy Bartlett. "Where to Get Your News and Information: The Digital Disruption." Harvard Business School Background Note 707-442, January 2007. (Revised from original September 2006 version.)