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My newsletter and publishing partners matter more than social media and search I’ve been publishing a blog for some 12 years now and have never been dazzled by the visitor traffic. I consoled myself by saying it was meant to be just a type of business card. People could see what I knew about digital […]
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Digital native differentiates itself with scrupulous precision, transparency Luca Sofri is a personality in Italian media. He has been a print journalist with several major publications and a television and radio commentator. But that was not enough to make his digital news startup financially sustainable. He experimented a lot in the past 12 years, glimpsed […]
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It’s about finding the time, finding an agent, and relentlessly beating the drum This week’s episode of the newsletter is about how a police reporter at a a metropolitan daily newspaper became a celebrated writer of mystery novels. For some journalists, covering crime or politics is a stepping stone to more creative work. And in […]
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CNN en Español, and one of its pioneers, celebrate an anniversary What follows is my translation of Ismael Nafría’s interview of Juan Andrés Muñoz, digital director of CNN en Español, on its 25th anniversary. The original interview, in Spanish, appeared on Nafría’s newsletter, Tendenci@s, on April 11, 2022. I have edited the original for length […]
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And other illusions that are not supported by reliable data There seems to be a natural human tendency to believe that people today are worse than people of previous generations. That people used to be polite and considerate and generous, but now they’re mean and cruel. Just look at all the crime, people say. And […]
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How recent articles have affected my thinking about the future of journalism One of my favorite recent articles was a newsletter post by Dick Tofel, former general manager of the investigative news site ProPublica. He asked the question, Time for local newspapers to go all-local? In other words, should local newspapers stop filling their web […]
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At ISOJ, stories of collaboration on viability, fact-checking, free expression The International Symposium of Online Journalism (ISOJ) has been a showcase of media innovation since its launch in 1999 by Rosental Alves, director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas, Austin. I’ve attended and spoken at several of […]
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