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Versión en español aquí. The Poynter Institute held a conference last week to showcase its latest study of how tablet users consume news and the problems designers have in satisfying these users’ demands. Tablets are rapidly becoming a platform of choice, with 22 percent of U.S. adults owning one, double the percentage of just a year […]
Read More »The importance of search engines to traffic on news sites spawned an industry of consultants on search engine optimization (SEO). But now social media may be challenging the dominance of “Google juice.”The percentage of Americans getting their news via social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ has risen to 19 percent, more than double […]
Read More »Reed Hundt A single digital marketplace where ideas and goods flow freely across borders offers great potential for economic growth. It also makes many national leaders worry about loss of control of their people and culture. Whether and how to control the Internet is the biggest unanswered question facing countries today, said Reed Hundt, who […]
Read More »Newton (Knight Foundation photo) (Versión en español aquí.) University journalism programs are not changing fast enough to meet the needs of students entering an industry in which job opportunities lie in ventures that are entrepreneurial and multimedia, say experts writing a series of articles for Nieman Lab. One of the commentators is Eric Newton, who says […]
Read More »Entrepreneurial journalists have a tough job. They need skills not only in journalism but marketing, technology, sales, managing online communities and basic accounting, among other things. Fortunately, they don’t need to have all the skills mastered at once. Start small, but start This is one of the takeaways from entrepreneurs profiled in Mark Briggs’s book […]
Read More »Rosalia Lloret: People are searching for crediblesources amid an avalanche of information. Versión en español aquí. El País is widening its lead as the No. 1 newspaper website in Spain with 7.6 million unique users in June (for comparison, the number is 74 million for the New York Times). At the same time the newspaper’s corporate […]
Read More »Spain is suffering through a newspaper crisis as severe as that in the U.S., and the response of one of its leading newspapers has been to expand into new markets.El Pais, part of Grupo Prisa, is cutting editorial staff at its headquarters in Madrid, but it just announced an expansion of its coverage of Mexico […]
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