Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
We journalists assume it’s a problem, but plenty of independent data says no Consider this blog entry a followup to my recent post, Economists ask, Does advertising actually work? The alarm bells started ringing for me when I saw the article in First Draft discrediting a Rolling Stone story that depicted anti-vaxers as pawns of […]
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Experts point to data that supports President Biden’s view “Ask any expert, they will tell you that Facebook is the most dangerous player in the digital world.” When I read this opinion from Frederic Filloux, a digital media expert, I was surprised by its severe tone. But he went on: “The social network’s business model […]
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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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It was economics that caused me to change a lot of my thinking about mothers, motherhood, and the value of child care. Actually, those ideas had been changing slowly over a long period of time. But things really got started when I read an article about, of all things, the history of the statistic we […]
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Because this blog is about the economics of media, sometimes we have to talk about the dismal science of economics. The talk among economists these days is about getting people back to work and re-starting the world’s economies. And one of the many discoveries of the covid-19 crisis has been that a huge part of […]
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Los periodistas freelance necesitan pensar como emprendedores Una de las lecciones que estamos aprendiendo del covid-19 es que la noticia es como la materia prima. Es una mercancía con poco valor en sÍ mismo en términos economicos. Casi todo lo que quieres saber sobre esta enfermedad está disponible de forma gratuita online, por todas partes, […]
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Freelance writers need to think like entrepreneurs One of the lessons we are learning from the corona virus is that the news is a commodity. Nearly everything you want to know about this disease is available online free, everywhere, all the time. In the language of economists, this kind of news product has little “exchange […]
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