Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
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 […]
Read More »Versión en español. It was a bit depressing to hear the results of a study of 34 digital media natives during the Third Latin American Forum of Digital Media and Journalism. Overall, these sites showed little interaction with their audiences in social media, little use of maps, graphics, and visualizations, and little consideration of the business […]
Read More »Versión en español. Four digital journalism pioneers in Latin America have four different solutions for the problem of how to finance an independent news organization. For Daniel Moreno, director general of Animal Politico in Mexico, one strategy has been to launch a brand extension called Animal Gourmet, a publication about fine dining, which attracts a new group of users […]
Read More »So much innovation is occurring on the revenue side of new digital media that it’s time to review, update and aggregate. Some of the material has appeared in this blog before. Let´s start with the basics. Versión en español. 1. Create community, don’t just publish news. An audience is just a group of observers. […]
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