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Last week I gave an all-day seminar to 30 journalists in Valencia, Spain, on the business aspects of starting a digital news outlet. It‘s easy enough to launch a blog or web page, but the hard part is making money. I gave participants a series of examples of revenue sources other than advertising and subscriptions: […]
Read More »During a presentation at the Complutense University of Madrid (center), I talked about the new vision of entrepreneurial journalism (center photo) and some of its advocates. One of the attendees created a collage of the people mentioned: (clockwise, from upper left) Clay Shirky of NYU, Dan Gillmor of Arizona State University, Brian Stelter of the […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Sandra Crucianelli is a pioneer in hyperlocal journalism on the Web. Her news website, Solocal.info (Just Local), provides in-depth investigative coverage of the industrial port of Bahia Blanca, 400 miles from Buenos Aires in Argentina. She and two partners manage the site, which has 790 registered users and 50 regular contributors […]
Read More »I came away from reading the State of the News Media in 2011 with the sense that newspapers in particular are being left farther behind by all of the advances in technology and payment systems. One example is Apple. Although it is selling subscriptions to publications on its iTunes platform, it is taking 30% of […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. A study of 54 independent journalism sites in Latin America has found that 20% of these new ventures produce no revenue. What’s more, only one-fourth of the for-profit operations are covering their costs. Most did not do a financial viability study before launch and less than half are taking advantage of […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Rosalía Orozco, who has directed the journalism program at the University of Guadalajara the past two years, is the new director of the University’s Digital Journalism Training Center. Rector General Marco Antonio Cortés Guardado announced the appointment Monday while installing the members of the Center’s newly formed Advisory Council. Rosalía Orozco […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. The work of journalists in Mexico is becoming increasingly dangerous, and governments at the state and national level are doing nothing to change the situation. This is the essence of the new report by the Center for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET). At least 139 journalists and 21 media outlets in 25 Mexican […]
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