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Editor’s note: This post was updated 3 June with an eighth best practice. For the last seven years I have been interviewing and profiling successful entrepreneurial journalists in various countries of various socieconomic classes. I’ve talked to publishers and editors with staffs of as many as a hundred as well as some one-man/one-woman bands. The […]
Read More »Eduardo Galan, “Emperor” of Revista Mongolia BURGOS, Spain — Eduardo Galan is a bundle of contradictions. He has a Ph.D. in psychology, specifically the psychology of marketing. (Versión en español) He has a background in online business marketing. And he speaks very seriously about business models for marketing a media product. Yet he has the […]
Read More »A deal with the devil. Versión en españolIt was the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke who wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” And clearly many people think that way about applications for smartphones. Mobile apps can show us detailed maps of most places on earth. They can read QR […]
Read More »Ignacio Escolar, left, of El Diario and Pedro J. Ramirez of El Español (photo: James Breiner) HUESCA, Spain — Two of the leading figures of the digital media revolution took the stage together and chatted about what it is like to wear the hats of journalist, shareholder, owner, and chief salesman of their respective media […]
Read More »Versión en español BRISTOL, England — A few years ago, I was on a team designing a master’s degree in digital journalism. The university required that we propose three areas of research for the professors in this program to pursue. One subject area we proposed was new business models for news. Another was the use […]
Read More »Angel Alayon, photo by James Breiner Versión en español. Angel Alayon is an economist in one of the craziest economies in the world, Venezuela, where inflation is more than 100 percent annually. It is awash in petroleum yet has chronic shortages of milk. And he is a journalist in a country whose government has been […]
Read More »Versión en español. Erick Falcon started out as a journalist. Mainly he liked writing about science, technology, and fine food in long feature articles as a freelancer for the Sunday magazine of El Universal newspaper. That might seem like a strange mix, but he lives in Ensenada, Mexico, on the northwest coast, about 65 miles […]
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