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Independent media in the U.S., Latin America, and Eastern Europe are resisting authoritarian pressure You’re reading the Your News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. Alarm bells ringing The previous few weeks I’ve been writing about how autocrats in Latin America were silencing media organizations (here and […]
Read More »New president Claudia Sheinbaum continues suppression of dissident voices You’re reading the Your News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. This is the second post in which I’ve drawn on presentations from the International Symposium of Online Journalism, which took place March 27-28 at the University of […]
Read More »Autocrats dismantle democracy in stages, and they start with the news media You’re reading the Your News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. This is the first of several posts that will draw on presentations from the International Symposium of Online Journalism, which took place March 27-28 […]
Read More »“Investigative journalists focus on social justice and accountability. Do the powers that be treat people fairly? Are they enriching themselves with taxpayer money?”
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Publishers have to be creative to overcome censorship and protected monopolies James Breiner Originally published Apr 25, 2024 I’ve always been inspired by the all-Spanish session of the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin (video of the session here, program here). Despite scarce resources, censorship, and stifling oligarchies, our Latin American colleagues manage to […]
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Meet the entrepreneur who is building trustworthy journalism in Romania Alex Enășescu launched a newsletter and website focused on news about his hometown, Iasi, Romania, in 2021. We began a conversation on Substack when he commented on one of my posts. I thought his story would inspire other digital media entrepreneurs. This interview was done […]
Read More »Incognito mode was safer in a world filled with rumors and vicious gossip In my previous newsletter, I talked about how Shakespeare lived and worked in a time of media disruption comparable to our own. He was an entrepreneur, a theater owner, a content creator, and a stage performer in the new business of public […]
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