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Joffé spoke to several hundred students at the University of Navarra on Thursday. Film-maker Roland Joffé has a way of leading people on a mystical meditation to find out who they are and how they will communicate with the world. “The truth is that no one in this room actually knows where we are,” he told about […]
Read More »In May I was in New York at an academic conference and had time to spend with my son, Patrick Breiner, a jazz saxophonist. I wanted to hear what he had to say about the economics of the music business from his perspective. He ended up talking more about relationships than economics. Patrick says that […]
Read More »I want to share with you my translation of a blog post (Spanish) by my friend and colleague Jose Luis Orihuela, a professor at the University of Navarra, author, and keynote speaker. Orihuela is addressing a problem that faces many teachers and professors: they say their students are distracted by all the media on their […]
Read More »The following is an excerpt from my chapter of a book on digital news media that will be published shortly, in Spanish. Among the most important developments in digital journalism in 2015 was the emerging practice of creating, distributing, and monetizing news known as “distributed content“. Bell: ‘Facebook is eating the world.’ What it means: […]
Read More »Anyone who has studied the metrics of the internet in any detail knows about the Big Lie: those big numbers of total users and page views that everyone relies on are practically meaningless. More than half of the visitors to websites stay for less than 15 seconds. Three-fourths of the users of the most important […]
Read More »Journalism professors are adapting to the realities of a historically tough job market. Their graduates are struggling to find stable work in an industry whose biggest players have been cutting staff for a decade. So universities are teaching new skills — multimedia production, community management, data management and visualization, among others — as well as […]
Read More »In our search for the next big thing, we often overlook some of the steady innovators who grow organically without millionaire investors or crushing debt loads. Alfonso Vara-Miguel of UNAV One such example is El Confidencial of Spain (their slogan: “The preferred daily of influential readers”). This is a digital news publication whose value proposition for […]
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