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Leo Prieto:betting on “mobile first” Versión en español aquí. Leo Prieto is a digital media entrepreneur in Chile whose 10 communities attract an audience of 10 million users a month from all over the Spanish-speaking world. Late last year, his company, Betazeta, decided to go “mobile first” and optimize the design of all its sites […]
Read More »Chumel Torres Versión en español aquí. Chumel Torres is a video-blogger whose satiric take on politics and journalism has managed to attract 483,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel in just one year. He has made a business out of the sponsors he attracts to his weekly program, El Pulso de la República (The Pulse of […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Jean-François Fogel has the best description I have heard of the new relationship between journalists and the public in the world of digital media. Simply put, only the public can decide whose work deserves the respect and attention we previously gave to journalists working at major media. It is the public […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí Mark Glaser of PBS Mediashift recently pulled together a panel of experts for an online chat about how massive open online courses (MOOCs) are affecting universities and professional education. Some exceprts from the fascinating 40-minute exchange are below. Alves Rosental Alves, director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas […]
Read More »After years of predictions that this year would be the year of mobile, finally it has arrived. So here are some numbers that should prompt strategizing and action by digital media publishers. 1. Web traffic from mobile devices was up 78 percent year over year in mid-2013, and 109 percent over 2011, according to Ayaz […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. The balance of power in media continues to shift away from the major news outlets toward the journalists who work for them.Ezra Klein’s departure from the Washington Post for Vox Media is just the latest of a string of changes that illustrate the rise of the journalist as a brand.For journalists working in […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Who would have thought that a small-town newspaper could discover a new revenue source worth $100,000 by repackaging some of its content? As the Wall Street Journal reports, a local best-selling book in a Montana town is “We Don’t Make This Stuff Up: The Very Best of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle […]
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