Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
There are thousands of independent media around the world — independent, that is, of political and commercial influence — that are aiming to serve their communities with trustworthy news and information that people can act upon.
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The same things that journalists value: transparency, accuracy, fairness, lack of bias I’ve been writing about trust in the media for years. My particular interest has been on its economic value. People want information they can trust. They consume media they trust. They will even pay for media they trust. Smart money is betting on […]
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‘Journalism is not in a crisis, it is reinventing itself,’ he says upon retirement Iñaki Gabilondo speaking at the University of Navarra, where I taught, in 2018. (Author’s photo) What better model of Spanish eloquence and journalistic integrity could there be than Iñaki Gabilondo. For decades, he was the host of Spain’s top morning radio […]
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Ted Talks nudge us toward solutions to the world’s problems by trusting each other and working together You’re reading the Your News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. This post originally appeared on Sept. 26, 2024. Chris Anderson, founder of Ted.com and author of “Infectious Generosity” Many […]
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The shortage of trustworthy news created a business opportunity for NewsGuard I’m a non-paying subscriber to two newsletters from NewsGuard, whose slogan is “The Internet Trust Tool.” NewsGuard provides news reliability ratings for 35,000 news websites around the world, including all the big ones (I’ll share some of their ratings in a moment). They also […]
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Here are some tools that help consumers sort through misleading marketing noise This post originally appeared in the Sept. 5, 2024, Your News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. Trustworthy sources. You may remember that my last newsletter talked about trust being in short supply these days. […]
Read More »This concept should guide your work — it will attract financial support This post was originally published Aug. 29, 2024, in the Your News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. Pixabay image by geralt The 1,300 free subscribers to this newsletter know that I’ve advocated several strategies […]
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