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Digital natives are leading the way to produce quality journalism for their communities Versión del post en español Each year, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas puts on a series of roundtable discussions with Latin American journalists. It’s called the Coloquio Iberoamericano, and it’s conducted in Spanish, but the staff prepared summaries in […]
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In this post I hope to give you some perspective on big changes under way in how digital advertising works, what it will mean to your online privacy, and how it might affect your media business. When both Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Senate take an interest in digital advertising technology, you know we […]
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For journalists to be effective, we have to read the news the way a long-term investor does. We need to look for value. Wise investors take note of those who predict that the the stock market is headed for record highs or a sudden collapse. They give an ear to the self-appointed gurus who say […]
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Success is really the exception, but there are strategies to make it more likely Recently I read an enlightening book by Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel-prize-winning economist–Thinking, Fast and Slow. The book is filled with rigorous economic and psychological studies of how our instincts and reason mislead us, especially when we are dealing with statistics. His […]
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Spain’s infoLibre increases subscribers, staff, audience during Covid crisis The name of one of Spain’s notable survival stories in public-service journalism–infoLibre–contains the essence of its guiding principle. It literally means “free information”–that is, free of undue influence from political and business interests. In his annual public letter, Jesús Maraña, editorial director, attributed the publication’s financial […]
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Publications need communication grads with traditional skills and tech savvy–Joanna Sullivan Joanna Sullivan has spent much of her career as a reporter and editor of business publications. Her tenacity as an investigative reporter was one of the reasons I promoted her to editor of the Baltimore Business Journal. Her career began before digital media dominated […]
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The best days are ahead for news organizations that adapt and innovate Jakub Parusinski is an optimist for the future of quality journalism, even in Eastern and Central Europe where press freedom is under threat. He believes the problems the media are facing–censorship, lawsuits, layoffs–are manageable. And he has a solution that is simple but […]
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