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Renaissance maps showed monsters, hazards to avoid. The future of journalism is increasingly digital, mobile, and in flux. It is unexplored territory. Like the explorers and navigators of the Renaissance, various organizations – governments, NGOs, journalism groups, and universities, among others – have been trying to map the most promising routes to sustainability in the […]
Read More »AUSTIN, Texas — Univision has been the most important Spanish language media company in the U.S. Now its digital news arm is taking aim at the 500 million Spanish speakers around the world. Borja Echevarria, its digital editor-in-chief, says his team is at the beginning of an initiative aimed at Spanish speakers in Latin America […]
Read More »NEW YORK — The big mystery in the newspaper industry has been how to get digital readers to pay for a product they have been getting free for years. Denise Warren The industry has struggled because subscription operations were always loss leaders that didn’t pay for themselves. Executives had no idea how to run a […]
Read More »Kinsey Wilson. Photo by Mary Kang/Knight Center AUSTIN, Texas — One of the dirty little secrets in digital media is that the big numbers of page views and unique users touted by publishers are misleading at best. They overstate a publication’s audience size and impact. Most visitors to a publisher’s content are fly-bys: They stay […]
Read More »Investigative journalists have achieved a new level of sophistication and collaboration as shown by this explosive investigation of offshore tax havens used by the wealthy and powerful. The investigation by 109 media organizations from 76 countries has shaken government leaders from China to Russia to Great Britain. It has led to the resignation of the prime minister of […]
Read More »Amid all the bad news about business models for high-quality journalism, eldiario.es (“The Daily”) in Spain shows that good journalism can be good business. Escolar: “Journalism is a public service that has to be profitable” Its founder and CEO, Ignacio Escolar, just announced that the publication finished 2015 with revenues of US$ 2.6 million, up […]
Read More »Emilio Garcia-Ruiz speaks to the press in Huesca. Photo by EFE HUESCA, Spain — Yes, it’s good to have a billionaire owner with patience, but it’s even better to have a billionaire owner with a vision. And the vision of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is that a news organization has to make its work […]
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