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Renaissance maps showed monsters, hazards to avoid. The future of journalism is increasingly digital, mobile, and in flux. It is unexplored territory. Like the explorers and navigators of the Renaissance, various organizations – governments, NGOs, journalism groups, and universities, among others – have been trying to map the most promising routes to sustainability in the […]
Read More »Kinsey Wilson. Photo by Mary Kang/Knight Center AUSTIN, Texas — One of the dirty little secrets in digital media is that the big numbers of page views and unique users touted by publishers are misleading at best. They overstate a publication’s audience size and impact. Most visitors to a publisher’s content are fly-bys: They stay […]
Read More »Amid all the bad news about business models for high-quality journalism, eldiario.es (“The Daily”) in Spain shows that good journalism can be good business. Escolar: “Journalism is a public service that has to be profitable” Its founder and CEO, Ignacio Escolar, just announced that the publication finished 2015 with revenues of US$ 2.6 million, up […]
Read More »Note: This blog post from Poynter Institute is used with permission. I think it is a particularly well stated summary of key points digital news entrepreneurs need to keep in mind. A Spanish version was translated by Ética Segura of the New Journalism Foundation of Iberoamerica. – James Diversify revenue streams. Train from within. Make […]
Read More »The loss of advertising and the complications of public funding are forcing digital publishers to look for ways to persuade the public to pay. Surveys and actual market behavior show that a small percentage of digital users will pay, depending on the country, the media brand, payment systems, and technology platforms. For some publishers, that […]
Read More »Olga Ruiz: Create something unique. PAMPLONA, Spain — In August of 2013, Olga Ruiz returned from a refreshing summer vacation ready to start her 16th season on the COPE radio network in Barcelona. But on her arrival, the managers told her and her team that they were being fired. “The best period in my professional […]
Read More »Oscar Castilla: “You have to think about the business model” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Oscar Castilla spent 12 years at El Comercio, Peru’s most important daily newspaper, honing his reporting skills with investigations of organized crime and corruption. Versión en español Then in 2014, Castilla and some colleagues from the investigative unit decided to […]
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