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Readers now supply more than half the site’s revenue. Josh Marshall started out as a political blogger in 2000, made a business of it in 2003, won a George Polk Award, and has managed to stay independent through all the wild swings of the digital pendulum. So his reflections on how to transition from an […]
Read More »Giving credit to others enhances credibility, trust We are not born knowing common courtesy. Someone has to teach us, and then we have to practice it. We also are not born knowing what plagiarism is, and those of us who haven’t learned to avoid it could be in big trouble. Plagiarizing the work of others […]
Read More »An icon of Spanish broadcast journalism, Iñaki Gabilondo, delivered a message last week designed to inspire and challenge 400 students and professors of journalism. “The future hasn’t been written yet:, he told them. “The question, ‘What is going to happen?’ is irrelevant. What will happen will be determined by what you do, what you don’t […]
Read More »These projects aim to restore trust. In a blog post earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of Credibility as the new currency of journalism, its significance in an era of distrust of the media, and its economic value for high-quality journalism. A big thank you to Christine Schmidt of Nieman Lab who has […]
Read More »Email has an intimacy that TheSkimm has used to build a loyal base of 7 million subscribers. Digiday has a weekly podcast about the business of digital media, and two recent interviews with founders of startups had nuggets of wisdom applicable to any media startup. Digiday’s editor-in-chief, Brian Morrissey, interviewed The Business of Fashion‘s Imran […]
Read More »“The new journalism specialties”. The graphic shows that 56% of the Spanish journalists surveyed work in media that have community managers, and 30% employ data and traffic analysts. Click to enlarge the graphic. Where will the jobs be for graduates in journalism and communication? The results of a survey of journalists in Spain give some […]
Read More »Now that Facebook has made clear that it will not be promoting journalism to its users, all of the publishers who were getting much of their traffic there should look elsewhere. (Frederic Filloux of Monday Note has one of the best analyses of the company’s announcement.) What now? Well, there are several tactics and strategies […]
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