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Predicting the future has always been a dangerous business in the creative industries. As any economist will tell you, products like books, movies, TV shows, and music are “experience goods”, which can only be evaluated after they are purchased or experienced. Making predictions or recommending strategies is especially difficult now with rapid technological change disrupting […]
Read More »If I am not careful, my cellphone will wake me up in the wee hours with buzzes or pings to let me know that news organizations and family members on the other side of the world, in different time zones, are trying to get my attention. Is it too dramatic to say that “there is […]
Read More »The following text is a translation from the Spanish version of a lecture I gave at the University of La Sabana in Bogotá, Colombia, on Aug. 22. My lecture, in Spanish, starts at the 6-minute mark of the video. Journalists today have the opportunity to create the future of the industry. But to do so, […]
Read More »Scientists and philosophers have spent a lot of their time and energy trying to describe what makes humans different from animals. So have economists. Blue-striped cleaner wrasses at work. Photo by Gregory R. Mann But it turns out that animals have economic market behaviors similar to humans, such as customer differentiation (a fish called the […]
Read More »It is not just journalists who are under attack in the digital world. Scientists have to deal with their own conspiracy theories hatched by the ignorant and malicious. Online, science competes with fluff and bluff When science enters the sphere of politics, religion, and business, the battle is on. In the 17th century, Galileo was […]
Read More »For those who could not attend the annual convention of the Spanish Journalism Society (SEP, Sociedad Española de Periodística, in Malaga, Spain, May 24-25, below is a summary of my keynote address. I gave the address in Spanish, but here it is in English. The talk focused on two major trends in digital journalism that […]
Read More »Alfredo Triviño has worked largely behind the scenes on some of the biggest digital media projects for some of the biggest brands in the world. But you might not have heard of him. Alfredo Triviño: users will own the media, in every sense He spent seven years in senior management roles at News Corp., ultimately […]
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