Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
One of the big questions facing the journalism industry is whether the traditional brands have a future. An international panel of eight academic media industry experts mostly agreed that those brands can survive, as long as they change what they are doing, and fast. This panel of eight was discussing the impact of global crises […]
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Author’s note: this post is a summary of remarks I made in a Zoom presentation for the Free University of Brussels and the technology research center IMEC. This research started when our colleague told us he was worried about the future of quality media. He saw traditional media failing as businesses because they were not […]
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Author’s note: My friend and former colleague Hector Farina Ojeda at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico invited me recently to be interviewed on his radio show and podcast. Professor Farina knew of my interest in media entrepreneurs and wanted to know how covid-19 was affecting them, among other topics. What follows is a translation […]
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The secret lies in treating users like partners in the journalism project “We’re independent because we’re profitable.” — Ignacio Escolar, director, eldiario.es The journalism industry has noticed the success of the digital media startup eldiario.es and is trying to duplicate it. That will not be easy. This independent news publication in Spain has been growing […]
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It’s encouraging to hear from media entrepreneurs who see a promising future for the funding of quality journalism. And the message we heard last week from the leaders of the American Journalism Project is that they are discovering lots of previously untapped revenue sources. The key, of course, is to produce quality journalism. There is […]
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The stories of innovative digital news media are one of my favorite parts of ISOJ, the International Symposium on Online Journalism now under way at the University of Texas, Austin. This year was no exception, and in just one hour, an all-star panel managed to leave us with many ideas and even wanting more. The […]
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This post was prepared for a SembraMedia webinar on 10 July, “How to teach entrepreneurial journalism” (Cómo enseñar el periodismo emprendedor) . The session was attended by professors from all over the Spanish-speaking world. The 1-hour session was recorded on video (Spanish). This blog post is aimed at those who teach entrepreneurial journalism–basically, how to […]
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