The future of journalism: Less is more
The credibility of a news product, its trustworthiness, and its relevance to people all have value. And all of these qualities are in short supply.
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Yes, quality journalism can pay its own way
elDiario.es, a startup in Spain, ranks among the leaders in audience and paid reader support in that country. James Breiner Originally published Jun 27, 2024 You’re reading the My News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. The 2024 Digital News Report of the Reuters Institute for the […]
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Global revolution: digital media startups rebuild trust, amplify new voices
Media that hire at least one full-time person to do marketing and sales produce four to six times more revenue than those that don’t.
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Wikipedia is the greatest online service created in the internet age. And it’s not for sale.
It’s free, global, non-profit, and crowd-sourced; it strives for a neutral stance in a media world filled with trolls, polarization, and automated disinformation James Breiner The value of trust It’s hard to find information you can trust these days. Powerful algorithm-driven marketing machines flood us with news and reviews about everything from pizza to politics, […]
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A local news oasis expands in NW England
Manchester Mill’s newsletters generate paid subscribers and 95% of revenue James Breiner ‘In terrible shape’ Joshi Herrmann and Manchester Mill caught my attention in February when he testified with two competitors before a media committee of the UK’s House of Lords. The committee had questions about the quality and impact of local news coverage. His two competitors […]
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‘News media are built in moments of crisis’
Ukrainian outlets innovate amid blackouts and bombings, deploy weapons of ‘information war’ against Russian disinformation Originally published on My New Biz, May 23, 2024 The Kyiv Independent was launched in 2021 when a group of journalists at the Kyiv Post were fired for protesting editorial interference by the new owner. Three years later, The Independent […]
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An experiment in Spanish translation using AI
I compared results from Deepl, Google, and Bard, and got a surprise I’ve been writing blog posts in Spanish and English for 14 years. Although I’m fluent in Spanish, I’m not a native speaker, and I’ve always worried a bit about the finer points. I try to write in a conversational style, and I use […]
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