Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
There are thousands of independent media around the world — independent, that is, of political and commercial influence — that are aiming to serve their communities with trustworthy news and information that people can act upon.
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I’m part of a worldwide trend, with women and men showing different tendencies James Breiner It’s a big event in journalism when the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism releases its annual Digital News Report. This year’s edition had loads of data on “news avoidance,” or people actively avoiding news. (Survey methodology here.) A […]
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Public-service mission fuels business models in Africa, SE Asia, and Latin America What follows is an edited excerpt of the Business Models chapter of SembraMedia’s Inflection Point International study of 201 digital native media in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Read the full report here–also in Spanish and Portuguese. It is republished under Creative Commons […]
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One of my most popular blog posts from 7 years ago is still surprisingly relevant This article first appeared on my website in 2014 and it remains one of the most popular. The revenue sources are still relevant, and so are the business principles behind them. For this post, I’ve updated some of the text […]
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A popular blog post from 2018: how to think like a businessperson Author’s note: This month, I am re-publishing some popular posts. This article first appeared on my website in 2018 and is one of the most popular from the past decade. Many of the circulation and revenue numbers in the text and the links […]
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Local and national competitors adopt previously unthinkable sharing tactics Recently I have been doing a lot of research about how news organizations have turned to collaboration rather than competition as a business model. This would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. Editors and publishers jealously guarded their exclusive stories and competed to unearth […]
Read More »Build a community based on relationships, not a mass audience In this video you will learn how to build an online community, deepen the relationship with them, and finally monetize the relationship. Here are some articles with more and deeper information about the topic: These metrics predict which users will pay for news These are […]
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