Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
There are thousands of independent media around the world — independent, that is, of political and commercial influence — that are aiming to serve their communities with trustworthy news and information that people can act upon.
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Ted Talks nudge us toward solutions to the world’s problems by trusting each other and working together You’re reading the Your News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. This post originally appeared on Sept. 26, 2024. Chris Anderson, founder of Ted.com and author of “Infectious Generosity” Many […]
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The shortage of trustworthy news created a business opportunity for NewsGuard I’m a non-paying subscriber to two newsletters from NewsGuard, whose slogan is “The Internet Trust Tool.” NewsGuard provides news reliability ratings for 35,000 news websites around the world, including all the big ones (I’ll share some of their ratings in a moment). They also […]
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Here are some tools that help consumers sort through misleading marketing noise This post originally appeared in the Sept. 5, 2024, Your News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. Trustworthy sources. You may remember that my last newsletter talked about trust being in short supply these days. […]
Read More »This concept should guide your work — it will attract financial support This post was originally published Aug. 29, 2024, in the Your News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. Pixabay image by geralt The 1,300 free subscribers to this newsletter know that I’ve advocated several strategies […]
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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 […]
Read More »Why Black journalists could see what was coming and the rest of us couldn’t James Breiner Editor’s note: I originally published this post in my newsletter in May 2024 after attending International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas. Now that we are deep into election season, I thought it would be relevant to re-publish […]
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