Open innovation in digital journalism: Examining the impact of Open APIs at four news organizations

New Media and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 314-331

  Aitamurto, Tanja ^a   Lewis, Seth C ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business models; digital media industries; hackathons; innovation networks; online journalism; Open APIs; open innovation; product development; R D; services innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874572832     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444812450682     Document Type: Article

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