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As a professor, I often wonder what effect my class presentations are having on the minds of my students. Honestly, is it really possible for any human being to pay attention completely to a class for 45 minutes? Or does the mind wander? While I am explaining the theory of market externalities, every media company […]
Read More »Women are taking a leadership role in the development of digital journalism in Latin America, according to a new study of 100 startups. The study, Inflection Point, by SembraMedia in partnership with Omidyar Network, offers many clues to achieving the elusive goal of sustainability for new digital media. Click to enlarge. One clue is that women have the skills and experience […]
Read More »A new study of 100 digital news startups in Latin America by SembraMedia in partnership with Omidyar Network — Inflection Point — offers many clues to achieving the elusive goal of sustainability. Extensive interviews with the founders — 25 each from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico — produced data that clarified the elements of successful […]
Read More »Richard Fletcher of the Reuters Institute has produced an in-depth analysis of the top reasons people around the world gave for paying for news online. The Digital News Report 2017 included interviews of more than 70,000 adults in 36 countries. Fletcher observed that the most common reasons people gave for paying were they wanted access on […]
Read More »Alfonso Vara-Miguel A new study of internet users in Spain shows that those who trust “the media” less are more willing to pay for news online. The explanation for this counterintuitive behavior is that those distrustful folks “are willing to pay for those specific media that they trust”, according to the researchers, Alfonso Vara-Miguel of the Universidad de […]
Read More »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 […]
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