Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
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. […]
Read More »Joey Chung, co-founder of The News Lens Versión en español aquí. Some of the fastest growing digital media in Asia, Latin America and the U.S. are tapping into a young audience that wants news that is less partisan, more believable and sometimes irreverent. Animal Politico in Mexico started out as a Twitter feed with an […]
Read More »After years of predictions that this year would be the year of mobile, finally it has arrived. So here are some numbers that should prompt strategizing and action by digital media publishers. 1. Web traffic from mobile devices was up 78 percent year over year in mid-2013, and 109 percent over 2011, according to Ayaz […]
Read More »Olga Lucia Lozano, creative editorof La Silla Vacia Versión en español aquí. The cofounder of one of the most important investigative journalism sites in Colombia, La Silla Vacia (The Empty Chair), has some advice for those who are thinking about creating their own website, app or whatever: “Don’t think about it, do it. Doing things […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí.Esther Vargas is a force of nature. She is social media manager for a news agency of the Peruvian government, she teaches at the Catholic University of Peru and she is a tireless promoter of education for journalists through her website, Clases de Periodismo. The home page of Clases de Periodismo She and […]
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