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Versión en español. It was out of frustration that Carlos Mora de la Orden started collecting and organizing information about the economy and stock market in his home country of Costa Rica. Although an engineer by training, he is a financial adviser by profession. He wanted to provide his clients reliable, up-to-date information untainted by […]
Read More »Last week I gave an all-day seminar to 30 journalists in Valencia, Spain, on the business aspects of starting a digital news outlet. It‘s easy enough to launch a blog or web page, but the hard part is making money. I gave participants a series of examples of revenue sources other than advertising and subscriptions: […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Sandra Crucianelli is a pioneer in hyperlocal journalism on the Web. Her news website, Solocal.info (Just Local), provides in-depth investigative coverage of the industrial port of Bahia Blanca, 400 miles from Buenos Aires in Argentina. She and two partners manage the site, which has 790 registered users and 50 regular contributors […]
Read More »I came away from reading the State of the News Media in 2011 with the sense that newspapers in particular are being left farther behind by all of the advances in technology and payment systems. One example is Apple. Although it is selling subscriptions to publications on its iTunes platform, it is taking 30% of […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. A study of 54 independent journalism sites in Latin America has found that 20% of these new ventures produce no revenue. What’s more, only one-fourth of the for-profit operations are covering their costs. Most did not do a financial viability study before launch and less than half are taking advantage of […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Jorge Domínguez, general manager and co-founder A chain of websites in Chile called Mi Voz (My Voice) is taking advantage of user-generated content to provide an alternative to crime and celebrity news. The news sites span the country and cover topics neglected by the mainstream media, such as technology, social issues […]
Read More »Newspapers battered by the collapse of the traditional business model might turn to this type of text-based SMS service as a new source of revenue. (La versión original en español se encuentra aquí.) El Periódico of Guatemala has launched a headline service for cellphones that is producing $60,000 a month. After only four months, the […]
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