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I found this data from Advertising Age fascinating: Internet media are now the second-largest employer in the media industry, trailing only newspapers. The represent 18 percent of the media industry jobs, according to the graphic that accompanies the article. While newspapers are shedding 1,400 jobs a month, internet media are creating 400 jobs, according to […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. The dilemma for journalism schools dealing with rapid technological change is to decide whether what they are teaching today will be relevant a few years from now. Many of the social media tools that are transforming journalism and society did not even exist just five years ago, said Mark Briggs, author […]
Read More »Version en español aquí. New York Times editor Jill Abramson says that half the people coming to the newspaper’s website in the runup to the election were searching for Nate Silver, the political forecasting whiz who writes the blog FiveThirtyEight. “He got huge, huge readership,” she said at a conference covered by MediaBistro. “They weren’t coming for the […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. In an interview with the Spanish website LaInformacion.com, Juan Antonio Giner, co-founder of Innovation Media Consulting, shared some of his strong opinions about how young journalists and traditional media should confront the challenge from digital media. Spain’s traditional media, like those in the U.S., have experienced devastating declines in revenues and […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. New Yorker writer Evan Osnos is as fine a storyteller in person as he is in print. Tsinghua University journalism students left their texting thumbs idle Oct. 24 as he told how he profiled a former barber named Siu Yun Ping, who won close to $100 million at baccarat in Macau. Osnos […]
Read More »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 […]
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