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Tini Tran, right, chats with students after her talk on “Survival Skills for a Foreign Correspondent” When she was in middle school, Tini Tran was assigned to a journalism class and her career path became clear. As a refugee from Vietnam living in the U.S., she had been very shy. But as a reporter on […]
Read More »Lately I have been teaching my students at Tsinghua University how to verify information they get in press releases, hear from news sources and see on the web. This is my third entry on the subject. Crap detector Part I: Credibility as business modelCrap Detector Part II: Mr. Daisey’s Apple Factory The website journalism.co.uk has […]
Read More »Europe is a patchwork of dozens of different languages, and news media now see this as an opportunity. They are banding together to charge for internet access to local-language products. Dutch and Flemish publishers are the latest in Europe to consider erecting a shared paywall around content in their languages, Paid Content reports. The concept is […]
Read More »Gumersindo Lafuente of El Pais (photo by James Breiner Versión en español aquí. The culture war of print vs. digital rages on and continues to block the transformation of the newspaper industry. An incident at Spain’s most prestigious daily and a study of 38 U.S. newspapers both made this clearer recently. At El Pais in […]
Read More »A new Facebook app launched by The Guardian in England could signal a major challenge to Google’s dominance of referral traffic to news websites. Google used to drive 40 percent of The Guardian’s traffic, but social networks referred more than search several times in February, said Tanya Cordrey, director of digital development at Guardian News […]
Read More »Crap Detector Part II: Mr. Daisey’s Apple Factory A digital news organization has to differentiate itself from the mass of online competitors vying for people’s attention. The best way is to be credible, reliable and trustworthy. Credibility is the most valuable asset of a news organization. It attracts a community whose members can collectively support […]
Read More »Crap detector Part I: Credibility as business model A few weeks ago I listened to a podcast of “This American Life” called “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” which was the story of a technology geek who goes to China to see where his iPhone was made. In the course of the story, the narrator, […]
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