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A renowned media critic sounded the alarm in 1960 about corporate takeovers of newspapers and layoffs of hundreds of journalists. He worried that the power of the press was being concentrated in too few hands. Liebling, from Slate.com (Versión en español) It was in his column in the New Yorker, The Wayward Press, that A.J. […]
Read More »Versión en español. Erick Falcon started out as a journalist. Mainly he liked writing about science, technology, and fine food in long feature articles as a freelancer for the Sunday magazine of El Universal newspaper. That might seem like a strange mix, but he lives in Ensenada, Mexico, on the northwest coast, about 65 miles […]
Read More »Versión en español. It was a bit depressing to hear the results of a study of 34 digital media natives during the Third Latin American Forum of Digital Media and Journalism. Overall, these sites showed little interaction with their audiences in social media, little use of maps, graphics, and visualizations, and little consideration of the business […]
Read More »Versión en español. Four digital journalism pioneers in Latin America have four different solutions for the problem of how to finance an independent news organization. For Daniel Moreno, director general of Animal Politico in Mexico, one strategy has been to launch a brand extension called Animal Gourmet, a publication about fine dining, which attracts a new group of users […]
Read More »I have never heard of a case like this anywhere. The weekly magazine and website Luces del Siglo (Lights of the Century) in the resort city of Cancun, Mexico, has seen its editions replaced by counterfeit versions with the contents twisted to favor the governor of the state. The publisher, Norma Madero, said yesterday in […]
Read More »“I never thought about how much I was spending on media. I just took it for granted, and now I realize that it is more than I would have imagined.” — student at Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Versión en español I recently surveyed 22 students in a seminar on how much they spend on […]
Read More »“Business journalism is a wonderful career”. Versión en español. MEXICO CITY — Francisco Vidal Bonifaz has worked as a business journalist in Mexico for three decades, and he sees lots of possibilities for growth in this niche. There are not many journalists with training in this field, either in Mexico or other countries. And there […]
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