Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
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. […]
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 […]
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