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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 […]
Read More »Tina Seelig, venturebeat.com Versión en español aquí. I just finished taking the free online course on innovation offered at NewsU and thought the beleaguered folks working at newspapers could certainly benefit. So could digital news entrepreneurs. The course offers simple, useful techniques to encourage innovation in any newsroom. The main takeaways: Innovation is a discipline […]
Read More »The rich are getting richer in the online advertising market, which means the antitrust lawyers must be sharpening their pencils. eMarketer is forecasting that Facebook will have one-fifth of the online display advertising market in 2011 and will displace Yahoo as leader in the category. The digital research website is also predicting that the top […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. A Spanish colleague who has been asked to develop the comments section of a new digital publication asked if it were better to require users to register or allow anonymous comments. The dilemma is always quantity vs. quality, I told her. If the idea is to generate traffic, comments can do […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Rick Edmonds of the Poynter Institute has the best early take on why Washington’s hyperlocal TBD.com failed. One of his points is that the operation started out too big, with 50 people. This number troubled me from the first announcement of the launch. Why wouldn’t they start with a smaller staff […]
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