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Versión en español aquí. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos isn’t the only e-commerce billionaire making news with acquisitions. Jack Ma, chairman of China’s e-commerce leader, Alibaba, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a Twitter-like microblogging service and a mapping service. Both of these giants have been bolting on companies that can help them gain synergies […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí.Journalism is the best job in the world, and working with journalists is fun. They’re funny, irreverent, intelligent and excellent storytellers. Still, as a group we tend to be arrogant, self-righteous and holier-than-thou (I include myself in this criticism). We tend to view ourselves as high priests of an exclusive profession and […]
Read More »Tenth in a series on teaching entrepreneurial journalism. Parts of this post are adapted from an article originally published in Revista Mexicana de Comunicación. Latin American journalists have a great thirst for establishing independent media. Many of them are tired of working for low pay at media outlets that protect the friends and punish the […]
Read More »More news organizations are trying to adopt a nonprofit model, but they likely have no experience in fundraising. They might want to look at Andy Robinson’s book “How to Raise $500 to $5,000 from Almost Anyone.” As someone who did fundraising on many boards, I can say that Robinson knows the territory. The website for nonprofits Guidestar ran an […]
Read More »Once again I find myself learning new things from my students here in China. The social media marketing strategies they proposed in class included techniques and platforms I was ignorant of. Their assignment was to recommend a strategy for a news organization or business that they would like to work for. They chose, among others, […]
Read More »Updated, with new information about Creative Commons, on 27 Sept. 2015. During a class on how news organizations use social media, one of my students asked if it was OK to republish any photo that appeared on Facebook, Twitter, or Weibo, the Chinese Twitter. Ellyn Angelotti,Poynter Institute There is no simple answer to this question, […]
Read More »Ninth in a series on entrepreneurial journalism programs at universities and media organizations. Mark Briggs, the man who wrote the book about entrepreneurial journalism, believes that universities are among the best places to experiment with new business models for news. Universities embrace experimentation and risk-taking, he says. “Those are two traits that are not very inherent […]
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