dc.description.abstract | This chapter describes how the concepts of crisis, resilience, and innovation are
well-suited for capturing how Norwegian news media dealt with the Covid-19
pandemic. The pandemic posed threats to public health, leading to increased
urgency for accurate information dissemination. As such, the crisis served as a
catalyst, accelerating changes in news production, distribution, consumption,
and business models. Persistence reflects resilience as the ability to regain stability
and get back to “business as usual”, adaptability as resilience refers to large
adjustments in professional practices in response, while transformability brings
radical long-lasting renewal of the whole organisation. Presenting a normative view
of innovation in journalism, this chapter focuses on value creation, improvement,
and novelty. Innovation involves adjusting existing products or services and
introducing new ideas perceived as novel by audiences. This coincides with the
transformation of journalism from physical news products to digitalised services.
Summarising insights from different strands of innovation literature, we identify
a set of internal factors, or building blocks, of journalism innovation: resources,
technology, organisation, management, culture, and business model. | en_US |