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For the last few years, the name Manuel Castells kept popping up in things I read about digital media, social networks, and mass communications. He is a Spanish sociologist who spent much of his career at UC Berkeley. Recently I have been reading his “The Rise of the Network Society,” the first of three volumes […]
Read More »We talk too much about the New York Times when the crisis of journalism is also about saving local news operations and digital entrepreneurs. But the latest news about how the Times is using email newsletters can be applied to all news organizations. Digiday reported that the Times has 13 million subscribers to more than […]
Read More »Home page of Dennik N Contrary to all the predictions about the public’s unwillingness to pay for news when it is freely available online, more publishers of high-quality, in-depth reporting are making money. The latest example comes from Slovakia, as recounted by Rob Sharp in Nieman Lab. The editors of a popular national newspaper there […]
Read More »“Clients don’t want to wait three hours for a graphic.” Manuel Benito Ingelmo has blended his knowledge of data, technology, and journalism to establish a news service with some of the biggest media in Spain as his clients. His data-visualization service, Porcentual.es, just finished its most successful year, and Ingelmo continues to innovate and improve […]
Read More »Amid all the debate about what is true and what is f— news, I am reminded of a remarkable journalistic moment that showed how hard it is to know when someone is kidding or serious. And how you can be sincere but spread false information. Dowd (Fred R. Conrad photo, New York Times) It was […]
Read More »Digital advertising is broken for many publications. Back in the days when my job was persuading advertisers to spend money with our business publication, I would talk about the importance of a client’s ad appearing next to credible, high-quality content. Editorial environment matters, was the argument. Google, Facebook, and Yahoo pretty much destroyed that business […]
Read More »You already know the story well — how the business model for traditional media collapsed in the U.S. (Pew: State of the News Media 2016). And how digital advertising’s market share surpassed print and will overtake television this year. And how media organizations have responded by cutting staff and weakening their products in order to keep profit […]
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