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Versión en español aquí. Hundreds of websites are popping up to replace the community news coverage lost as daily newspapers cut staff and publish less frequently. Many of them are started by the very reporters who have just been laid off or community organizers who want to hold public institutions accountable. What these new media […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. In an interview with the Spanish website LaInformacion.com, Juan Antonio Giner, co-founder of Innovation Media Consulting, shared some of his strong opinions about how young journalists and traditional media should confront the challenge from digital media. Spain’s traditional media, like those in the U.S., have experienced devastating declines in revenues and […]
Read More »Entrepreneurial journalists have a tough job. They need skills not only in journalism but marketing, technology, sales, managing online communities and basic accounting, among other things. Fortunately, they don’t need to have all the skills mastered at once. Start small, but start This is one of the takeaways from entrepreneurs profiled in Mark Briggs’s book […]
Read More »Rosalia Lloret: por la avalancha informativa digital, usuarios prefieren consultar marcas creíbles English version here. EL ESCORIAL, España — El diario El País se está mejorando su posición como el medio de comunicación número 1 de España con 7,6 millones de usuarios únicos durante el pasado mes de junio (en comparación a los 74 millones de El New […]
Read More »Rosalia Lloret: People are searching for crediblesources amid an avalanche of information. Versión en español aquí. El País is widening its lead as the No. 1 newspaper website in Spain with 7.6 million unique users in June (for comparison, the number is 74 million for the New York Times). At the same time the newspaper’s corporate […]
Read More »Spain is suffering through a newspaper crisis as severe as that in the U.S., and the response of one of its leading newspapers has been to expand into new markets.El Pais, part of Grupo Prisa, is cutting editorial staff at its headquarters in Madrid, but it just announced an expansion of its coverage of Mexico […]
Read More »While print newspapers are losing subscribers and advertisers in the rest of Europe, an Italian print publication launched by an investigative reporter is thriving because of its independent voice.Il Fatto Quotidiano (The Daily Facts) has been slaying sacred cows since 2009 and makes its money from subscribers and newsstand sales — roughly 6 million euros […]
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