Free to succeed: Does press freedom influence the entrepreneurial orientation and the reader revenue performance of independent news media firms?—A cross-sectional study

François Nel; Coral Milburn-Curtis; Katja Lehtisaari; Aske Kammer

doi:10.1177/0739532920969918

Free to succeed: Does press freedom influence the entrepreneurial orientation and the reader revenue performance of independent news media firms?—A cross-sectional study

François Nel^*, Coral Milburn-Curtis, Katja Lehtisaari, Aske Kammer

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The notion of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) is operationalized here to explore the influence of press freedom (PF) on the performance of news media firms. We find that growth in reader revenues (RR)—digital and print—is statistically significantly correlated to both EO and PF, suggesting that subscriptions to independently produced news are likely to be better in countries with high degrees of PF, and in instances where the firm’s leaders are entrepreneurial.

Original language	English
Journal	Newspaper Research Journal
Volume	41
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	417-432
Number of pages	16
ISSN	0739-5329
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532920969918
Publication status	Published - Dec 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Gov’t–press relations
business
economics
law
management
personnel
press and society
public policy

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10.1177/0739532920969918

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Free to succeed: Does press freedom influence the entrepreneurial orientation and the reader revenue performance of independent news media firms?—A cross-sectional study. / Nel, François; Milburn-Curtis, Coral; Lehtisaari, Katja et al.
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