Prof. Robert G. Picard  

“Limits of the First Amendment and Antitrust Law in Platform Governance and Media Reform,” First Amendment Law Review, 18(2):94-122 (2020). download pdf

"Crowding Out: Is There Evidence that Public Service Media Harm Markets?" (co-authored with Annika Sehl and Richard Fletcher), European Journal of Communication, 2020,

“The Sisyphean Pursuit of Media Pluralism: European Efforts to Establish Policy and Measurable Evidence”, Communication Law and Policy, 22(3):255 – 273 (2017).

“Isolated and particularised: The state of contemporary media and communications policy research,” Javnost/The Public, 23(2):135-152 (2016). download pdf

 “Platform proliferation and its implications for domestic content policies,” (co-authored with Charles Davis, Franco Papandrea, and Sora Park, Telematics and Informatics, 33: 683-692 (2016). download pdf

"The Humanisation of Media? Social Media and the Reformation of Communication," Communication Research and Practice, 1(1):32-41 (2015).  download pdf

"Twilight or New Dawn of Journalism? Evidence from the Changing News Ecosystem," Journalism Studies, 15(4):1-11 (2014) [Simultaneously published in Digital Journalism and
Journaiism Practice]. download pdf   

"The Future of the Political Economy of Press Freedom," Communication Law and Policy, 19(1):97-107 (2014). download pdf

''Let's Start an Online News Site': Opportunities, Resources, Strategy, and Formational Myopia in Startups" (co-authored with Lucia Naldi), Journal of Media Business Studies, 9(4):
69-97 (2012). download pdf

“Business and Market Challenges and their Effects on the Foundations and Trajectory of   
U.S. Broadcast Policy," Journal of Media Business Studies, 8(2):45-62 (2011). download pdf

"Industry Associations as Change Agents: The Institutional Roles of Newspaper Associations” (co-authored with Mattias Nordqvist and Ossi Pesämaa), Journal of Media
Business Studies, 7(3):51-69 (2010).  download pdf

"Circulations, Revenues, and Profits in a Newspaper Market with Fixed Advertising Costs”
(co-authored with Agostino Manduchi), The Journal of Media Economics , 22(4):211-238
(2009).  download pdf

“Economic Growth and Advertising Expenditures in Different Media in Different Countries”
(co-authored with Piet Bakker and Richard van der Wurff), The Journal of Media Economics,
21(1):28-52 (2008). download pdf

"Shifts in Newspaper Advertising Expenditures and Their Implications for the Future of Newspapers," Journalism Studies, 9(5):704-716 (2008).

"Capital and Control: Consequences of Different Forms of Newspaper Ownership,"  International Journal on Media Management, 10(1):22-31 (2008).  download pdf

"Natural Death, Euthanasia, and Suicide: The Demise of Joint Operating Agreements," Journal of Media Business Studies, 4(2):41-64 (2007). download pdf

"Les mddias au risqud du management et du marketing," Le Temps des Medias No. 6, pp.
165-174  (printemps 2006). download pdf

"Unique Characteristics and Business Dynamics of Media Products," Journal of Media
Business Studies, 2(2): 61-69 (2005). download pdf

"Der Portfolio-Ansatz in den Medienindustrien--Ein strategisches Werkzeug mit unterschÃ
¤tztem Wert?" (co-author). Zeitschrift für Controlling & Management [Journal of Controlling
and Management] (2)42-48 (2005). download pdf

"Mobile Telephony and Broadcasting: Are They Compatible for Consumers," International
Journal of Mobile Communications 3(1):19-28 (2005). download pdf

"Managing Competition through Barriers to Entry and Channel Availability in the Changing
Regulatory Environment," JMM --International Journal on Media Management 6(3&4):168-
175 (2004). download pdf

"A Note on Economic Losses Due to Theft, Infringement, and Piracy of Protected Works,"
Journal of Media Economics, 17(3):207-217 (2004). download pdf

"Organizational Failures in the Jason Blair Incident," Journalism Studies, 5(3):404-406
(2004). download pdf

"Issues in Assessment of the Economic Impact of Copyright," Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 1(1):20-29 (2004). download pdf

"Commercialism and Newspaper Quality," Newspaper Research Journal, 25(1):54-65 (Winter 2004). download pdf

"A Typology of Risk in Family Media Enterprises," Journal of Media Business Studies, 1(1):
71-83 (2004) download pdf

"Assessment of Public Service Broadcasting: Economic and Managerial Criteria," Javnost/The Public, 10(3):29-44 (2003). download pdf

"Cash Cows or Entrecote: Publishing Companies and New Technologies," Trends in
Communication, 11(2):127-136 (2003). download pdf

"Development and Effects of Finnish Press Subsidies," (Co-author) Journalism Studies, 4
(1):105-119 (February 2003). download pdf

"US Newspaper Ad Revenue Shows Consistent Growth," Newspaper Research Journal, 23
(4):21-33 (Fall 2002). download pdf

"Assessing Audience Performance of Public Service Broadcasters," European Journal of
Communication, 17(2):227-235 (2002). download pdf

"Strategic Responses to Free Distribution Dailies," JMM--International Journal on Media
Management, 3(3):167-172 (2001). download pdf

"Effects of Recessions on Advertising Expenditures: An Exploratory Study of Economic
Downturns in Nine Developed Nations," Journal of Media Economics, 14(1):1-14 (2001).
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"Financial and Strategic Management of Successful Finnish Local Radio Stations," (co-
author) Journal of Radio Studies, 7(2): 379-391 (2000). download pdf

"Changing Business Models of Online Content Services: Their Implications for Multimedia
and Other Content Producers," JMM--International Journal on Media Management,� 2(2):60-66, (2000). download pdf

"Legal and Economic Aspects of Theft of Newspapers: Using a Model of Newspaper
Value," (co-author) Journal of Media Economics, 12(4):247-263 (1999). download pdf

"Weathering a Recession: Effects of Size and Diversification on Newspaper Companies,"
(Co-author) Journal of Media Economics, 12(1):1-18 (1999). download pdf

"Measuring and Interpreting Productivity of Journalists," Newspaper Research Journal, 19(4) 71-84 (Fall 1998). download pdf

"A Note of the Relationships Between Circulation Size and Newspaper Advertising Rates,"
Journal of Media Economics, 11(2):47-55 (1998). download pdf

"Modeling the Problem: De Novo Entry in Newspaper Markets," Newspaper Research
Journal, 18(3-4):94-108 (Summer/Fall 1997). download pdf

"Lessons from the Detroit Newspaper Strike," (Co-author), Newspaper Research Journal,
18(1):19-27  (Winter/Spring 1997).

"The Rise and Fall of Communication Empires," Journal of Media Economics 9(4):23-40
(1996). download pdf

"Institutional Ownership of Publicly Traded U.S. Newspaper Companies," Journal of Media
Economics 7(4):49-64 (Fall 1994).

"Measuring and Engineering Personnel Productivity in the Graphic Arts Industry," Journal of
Media Economics 7(2):39-53 (Spring 1994). (Co-Author) download pdf

"The Effect of Price Increases on Newspaper Circulation: A Case Study of Inelasticity of
Demand," Newspaper Research Journal 12(3):64-75 (Summer 1991).

"Cost Analyses of Predation Involving Free Circulation Subsidiaries of Paid Newspapers,"
Journal of Media Economics 4(2):29-34 (Summer 1991). download pdf

"Critical Assumptions in Arguments for Maximum Price Fixing of Newspaper Circulation,"
Communications and the Law (December 1990), pp. 69-86. download pdf

"Interactive Monopoly Power in the Daily Newspaper Industry," (co-author) Journal of Media
Economics 3(2) (Fall 1990).

"Plurality, Diversity, and Prohibitions on Television-Newspaper Crossownership," (co-
author) Journal of Media Economics 2:55-65  (Spring 1989).

"Measures of Concentration in the Daily Newspaper Industry," Journal of Media Economics
1:59-71 (Spring 1988). download pdf

"Regression Analysis of State Role in Press Economics," Journalism Quarterly 64:846-850
(Winter 1987).

"Evidence of a `Failing Newspaper' Under the Newspaper Preservation Act," Newspaper
Research Journal 9:73-82 (Fall 1987). download pdf

"State Press Aid During the Era of Economic Readjustment: A Case Study of Scandinavian
Nations," European Studies Journal 3:1-8 (1986).

"Patterns of State Intervention in Western Press Economics," Journalism Quarterly 62:3-9
(Spring 1985). download pdf

"State Intervention in U.S. Press Economics," Gazette: International Journal of Mass
Communication Studies 30:3-11 (1982). [The Netherlands] download pdf

"Rate Setting and Competition in Newspaper Advertising," Newspaper Research Journal 3:
3-13 (April 1982). download pdf

"Government Subsidies and Newspaper Marketing in Two Swedish Cities, 1965-1978,"
Gazette: International Journal of Mass Communication Studies 28:17-33 (1981).