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The big players in digital news like The New York Times, Buzzfeed, and NBC News are struggling with a change in how they make money and how they define themselves as brands. The cause is the rapid migration of news consumers and advertisers to smartphones. This migration has put the news brands at the mercy […]
Read More »Jose Luis Orihuela has been writing about digital media for almost 30 years. So I have been enjoying his new book, “The Media Since the Internet” (“Los medios después de Internet”), which is a compilation of his columns for newspapers in Spain and Latin America in 2011-2013. (His 159,000 Twitter followers around the world know […]
Read More »Jarvis: think first of the community Several years ago I was working in Belarus, a former Soviet republic, where independent newspapers have a hard time surviving. The government denies them access to state-monopoly newsstands, overcharges them for their newsprint, and harasses them at every turn. We looked at one publisher’s website data to see if […]
Read More »El Pais announces the alliance on its website. (Updated Aug. 22, 2015; versión en español) The iconoclastic Spanish culture magazine Jot Down is a strange creature in many ways. At a time when people supposedly read little and do it rapidly, it publishes long interviews and essays. In an age of minute-by-minute updates and clickbait, Jot […]
Read More »At the end of a semester-long course in digital journalism, I asked my students at the University of Navarra in Spain to say what they thought was the most interesting or useful part of the course. The survey was anonymous, so I give it some credibility. The question was open-ended. The second-most-mentioned item was a […]
Read More »PorCausa is a new species of digital media for Spain: nonprofit journalism. Its founder and director, Gumersindo Lafuente, is a respected veteran of some of Spain’s most important media — El País, El Mundo, and the late lamented digital pioneer Soitu.es). Given the limited resources available, he runs the operation much in the style of […]
Read More »Julio Alonso, director general WeblogsSL (James Breiner photo) BURGOS, Spain — In 2004, management consultant Julio Alonso got the itch to write about gadgets and technology. He started a blog and a year later that evolved into the website Xataka. Since then he and his partners have built WeblogsSL, a community of 36 websites in […]
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