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Apollo 13 engineers celebrate safe splashdown.NASA photo, April 1970. NBC News via AP Versión en español aquí. Journalists who are starting their own digital media should learn to think more like engineers and scientists. For them, solving a problem involves repeated trial and error. They view each step not as a failure but as a […]
Read More »Back in the 1960s, before baseball had a designated hitter, I had a paper route. This was a job formerly given to 12-year-olds but now has been taken over by adults.It was a measure of the daily newspaper’s market dominance that a kid who wanted a paper route had to buy it from another kid. […]
Read More »During a presentation at the Complutense University of Madrid (center), I talked about the new vision of entrepreneurial journalism (center photo) and some of its advocates. One of the attendees created a collage of the people mentioned: (clockwise, from upper left) Clay Shirky of NYU, Dan Gillmor of Arizona State University, Brian Stelter of the […]
Read More »El miércoles yo di una conferencia sobre el “Periodismo emprendedor” en la Facultad de las Ciencias de la Información en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, invitado por la Profesora Concha Edo. Uno de los asistentes, Nahúm Penela Rubio, está realizando su doctorado en periodismo y propuso dar un resumen de la presentación en mi blog. […]
Read More »Después de dar el curso “Periodismo Emprendedor” varias veces, me di cuenta de la renuencia de muchos periodistas veteranos a publicar algo en la Web. El objetivo del curso es darles a los periodistas algunas herramientas para que abran sus propios medios digitales. Pero algunos periodistas veteranos no quieren publicar un blog por temor de […]
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