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A new study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism finds that news podcasts are attracting large audiences as well as driving loyalty and revenue for many media outlets. And news podcasts have been generating many times more downloads than those focused on other topics, in part because of interest in information about […]
Read More »As part of my recent work with DW Akademie, I was interviewed for a podcast that is part of the training and tools they offer to media startups. What follows is a summary of the key points of the podcast: Who are our clients, what do they need? The biggest mistake that media startups make […]
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A former student recently interviewed me on the use of algorithms in social networks. He was doing a research project for another journalism professor. Weren’t these algorithms leading to the spread of disinformation in the news? he asked. Yes, the algorithms had allowed for the rapid spread of hoaxes and conspiracy theories related to covid-19. […]
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Author’s note: this post is a summary of remarks I made in a Zoom presentation for the Free University of Brussels and the technology research center IMEC. This research started when our colleague told us he was worried about the future of quality media. He saw traditional media failing as businesses because they were not […]
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Author’s note: My friend and former colleague Hector Farina Ojeda at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico invited me recently to be interviewed on his radio show and podcast. Professor Farina knew of my interest in media entrepreneurs and wanted to know how covid-19 was affecting them, among other topics. What follows is a translation […]
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This is the fourth year that I have asked my second-year students in Media Economics at the University of Navarra to do an analysis of their media expenditures and usage. First, I ask them to estimate their monthly expenditures on media, using a spreadsheet with entries for internet in the home, land line telephone, data […]
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It was economics that caused me to change a lot of my thinking about mothers, motherhood, and the value of child care. Actually, those ideas had been changing slowly over a long period of time. But things really got started when I read an article about, of all things, the history of the statistic we […]
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