• In Search of Journalism Funding. Scenarios for future media policy in Norway 

      Sjøvaag, Helle; Krumsvik, Arne Håskjold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-09)
      Digitization has caused disruption in the traditional business model of the news media. Policy implementation in the media sector is therefore increasingly raised as an economic question, involving concern for the ability ...
    • Journalism and the political structure: The local media system in Norway 

      Sjøvaag, Helle; Pedersen, Truls André; Lægreid, Ole Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12)
      This article assumes a media system perspective on the local news media structure in Norway, using a dataset of 847,487 news articles collected from 156 Norwegian news outlets in 2015–2017. Using a series of hypotheses, ...
    • Kritisk tilstand: Har kritikeren utspilt sin rolle som smakens portvakt? 

      Owren, Thomas; Sjøvaag, Helle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      I denne artikkelen utforsker vi rolleforståelsen til norske musikkritikere som publiserer i allmenne nyhetsmedier. Artikkelen har søkelys på hvordan kritikerrollen reforhandles i tråd med den digitale utviklingen av ...
    • The non-substitutability of local news? Advertising and the decline of journalism's umbrella market model 

      Sjøvaag, Helle; Owren, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)
      This article addresses the challenges facing local newspapers as the digital economy transitions to artificial intelligence (AI). We interview five CEOs of Scandinavian newspaper corporations, representing small, mid-sized, ...
    • Operationalising news diversity: A comparison of Norway and Flanders 

      Hendricxk, Jonathan; Sjøvaag, Helle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)
      Several scholars and institutions have made attempts at defining and conceptualising news diversity, underlying its increasing relevance within and beyond academia. However, very few have operationalised it for a given ...
    • Risk perception in newspaper chains: Threats, uncertainties and corporate boundary work 

      Sjøvaag, Helle; Owren, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)
      This article presents an analysis of risk perception among chain newspaper CEOs in Scandinavia. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the analysis finds that risk is perceived in relation to public trust, corporate ...
    • Strategic and Organisational fit in Corporate News Markets: A Principal-agent Approach to Studying Newspaper Mergers 

      Sjøvaag, Helle; Owren, Thomas; Borgen, Turid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This article analyses strategic and organisational fit in corporate newspaper mergers in the context of the digitalisation of local newspaper markets. Using the 2019 acquisition of Nordsjø Media by Amedia in Norway as case, ...
    • Toward ‘Cultures of Engagement’? An exploratory comparison of engagement patterns on Facebook news posts 

      Ferrer-Conill, Raul; Karlsson, Michael; Haim, Mario; Kammer, Aske; Elgesem, Dag; Sjøvaag, Helle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Information production, dissemination, and consumption are contingent upon cultural and financial dimensions. This study attempts to find cultures of engagement that reflect how audiences engage with news posts made by ...
    • Towards Responsible Media Recommendation 

      Elahi, Mehdi; Jannach, Dietmar; Skjærven, Lars; Knudsen, Erik; Sjøvaag, Helle; Tolonen, Kristian; Holmstad, Øyvind; Pipkin, Igor; Throndsen, Eivind; Stenbom, Agnes; Fiskerud, Eivind; Oesch, Adrian; Vredenberg, Loek; Trattner, Christoph (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)
      Reading or viewing recommendations are a common feature on modern media sites. What is shown to consumers as recommendations is nowadays often automatically determined by AI algorithms, typically with the goal of helping ...