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The help is welcome, but the donor can pull the plug at any time A common stuggle for digital news startups is that they depend on grants to fund operations or to fund special projects chosen by the donor organization. So they suffer the uncertainty of whether they can pay their staff and continue providing […]
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Measuring the wrong thing or using the wrong scale is a formula for failure Numbers don’t lie, but people do. And worst of all, people lie to themselves about what numbers mean. The Big Lie in media metrics for years was the Biggest Number. Media publishers got away with touting their total monthly page views […]
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Digital entrepreneurs and philanthropists are collaborating to replace lost coverage Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence we can make things better. As I like to say, it’s another day of opportunity. The declining quality of local news coverage in […]
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If you build it, they won’t come; you have to persuade them why your work has value Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence that we can make things better. As I like to say, it’s another day of opportunity. […]
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200 digital native media on three continents provide models for sustainability Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence that we can make things better. As I like to say, it’s another day of opportunity. SembraMedia gives us another reason to […]
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Author identifies key internet trends, offers solutions to its thorny problems Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence we can make things better. As I like to say, today is another day of opportunity. José Luis Orihuela was an online […]
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Thousands of organizations are collaborating to produce public-service journalism Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence we can make things better. As I like to say, it’s another day of opportunity. Quality journalism takes time and is expensive. It requires […]
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