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The new dynamics of the digital media business are driving publishers away from advertising-based business models and toward user payments. In that context, many of them are rediscovering that supposedly obsolete distribution channel, email. Email has the power to create an intimate relationship between a publication and its users. That relationship can translate into loyalty, […]
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UPDATE: CANCELED FOR CORONAVIRUS Hundreds of global experts in the media industry gather each year in Perugia, Italy, to talk about the past and future of the craft. Some of the items on the schedule look particularly interesting, so I have started putting together my personal agenda. Thursday April 2 Local journalism | in English […]
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Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have said just before signing the Declaration of Independence, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” News publishers have taken this idea to heart with a trend toward collaborating as a means of survival when so many economic forces are working against them. […]
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This blog entry was written for IJNet.org, Tips for Journalists in 2020 from other Knight International Journalism fellows. The losing strategy that seeks mass audiences and mass advertising as measured by unique users and page views has led many media to chase clicks with ever-more sensationalistic content about celebrities, sports figures, imprudent politicians and sex […]
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Picard: News organizations need to focus on creating value for users Now that Google, Facebook, and other tech platforms have taken away most of their ad revenue, news publishers are realizing they need to get revenues from users to stay afloat. Well, good luck with that. Most of the paywalls or freemium products they have […]
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PAMPLONA, Spain — For the past five years I have been buying my newspapers on the weekend at a neighborhood newsstand. The owner and I, Jesus Erro, got to be casual friends, and we talked about the politics and culture of our respective countries. He is a big reader. This weekend, I found […]
Read More »His latest historical novel tells of CIA misinformation campaign Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel laureate in literature, has just published a historical novel, Tough Times (“Tiempos recios”), whose plot is based on the 1954 overthrow of the democratically elected government in Guatemala that was engineered by the CIA. For the novelist, that conspiracy has many […]
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