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Jose Luis Orihuela has been writing about digital media for almost 30 years. So I have been enjoying his new book, “The Media Since the Internet” (“Los medios después de Internet”), which is a compilation of his columns for newspapers in Spain and Latin America in 2011-2013. (His 159,000 Twitter followers around the world know […]
Read More »El Pais announces the alliance on its website. (Updated Aug. 22, 2015; versión en español) The iconoclastic Spanish culture magazine Jot Down is a strange creature in many ways. At a time when people supposedly read little and do it rapidly, it publishes long interviews and essays. In an age of minute-by-minute updates and clickbait, Jot […]
Read More »At the end of a semester-long course in digital journalism, I asked my students at the University of Navarra in Spain to say what they thought was the most interesting or useful part of the course. The survey was anonymous, so I give it some credibility. The question was open-ended. The second-most-mentioned item was a […]
Read More »The Internet is a revolutionary tool of communication. Because of that, teachers of communication have to face up to the possibility that our models for teaching and learning are becoming less effective and relevant. Like many of my teaching colleagues, I have complained that students don’t read. Well, they do read, but in a different […]
Read More »María Ramírez de Elespanol.com entrevista a Gideon Lichfield (foto TIE Comunicación/Congreso Periodismo) HUESCA, España – La publicación digital sobre economía y negocios Quartz — o qz.com — parece estar haciendo todo bien. En solo dos años construyó una audiencia de 10,9 millones de usuarios únicos al mes. (English version) Pero el desafío es seguir creciendo en medio […]
Read More »Maria Ramirez of El Español interviews Gideon Lichfield. (Photo: TIE Comunicación/Congreso Periodismo) HUESCA, Spain — A digital business publication like Quartz qz.com would seem to be making all the right moves. In just over two years it built an audience of 10.9 million unique users a month. (Versión en español) But the struggle is to continue growing amid […]
Read More »Ignacio Escolar, left, of El Diario and Pedro J. Ramirez of El Español (photo: James Breiner) HUESCA, Spain — Two of the leading figures of the digital media revolution took the stage together and chatted about what it is like to wear the hats of journalist, shareholder, owner, and chief salesman of their respective media […]
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