An optimistic book about the collapse of print media

Bernardo Diaz Nosty published a book last year that chronicled the sad history of the collapse of print media in the developed world over the past 70 years. It wasn’t bad enough that revenues had tanked and readers had fled, he said. The worst part was that news media had lost their credibility. Being the […]

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ISOJ: 3 ways the journalism business is changing

Versión en español aquí.  Three of the speakers at the International Symposium on Online Journalism changed the way I look at the business of journalism: Jim Moroney, CEO of A.H. Belo and publisher of the Dallas Morning News; Jim Bankoff, founder and CEO of Vox Media, and Valtteri Halla, chief technical officer at Leia Media […]

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Mexican blogger builds a business out of political satire

Chumel Torres Versión en español aquí.  Chumel Torres is a video-blogger whose satiric take on politics and journalism has managed to attract 483,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel in just one year. He has made a business out of the sponsors he attracts to his weekly program,  El Pulso de la República (The Pulse of […]

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Who’s a journalist? Only the public can decide

Versión en español aquí. Jean-François Fogel has the best description I have heard of the new relationship between journalists and the public in the world of digital media. Simply put, only the public can decide whose work deserves the respect and attention we previously gave to journalists working at major media. It is the public […]

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7 mobile stats that should scare digital publishers

After years of predictions that this year would be the year of mobile, finally it has arrived. So here are some numbers that should prompt strategizing and action by digital media publishers. 1. Web traffic from mobile devices was up 78 percent year over year in mid-2013, and 109 percent over 2011, according to Ayaz […]

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Power shifts toward journalists in new media equation

Versión en español aquí. The balance of power in media continues to shift away from the major news outlets toward the journalists who work for them.Ezra Klein’s departure from the Washington Post for Vox Media is just the latest of a string of changes that illustrate the rise of the journalist as a brand.For journalists working in […]

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Police blotter brings in $100k for Montana newspaper

Versión en español aquí. Who would have thought that a small-town newspaper could discover a new revenue source worth $100,000 by repackaging some of its content? As the Wall Street Journal reports, a local best-selling book in a Montana town is “We Don’t Make This Stuff Up: The Very Best of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle […]

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