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Veteran news editor emphasizes fairness and accuracy over speed in reporting I recently interviewed Joanna Sullivan, who I hired 25 years ago to be a editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Business Journal. She’s recently been promoted to a senior editor position on the national News & Content Team for the 45 cities in the American City […]
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The best ones demanded our best and left us with words to live by You’re reading the My News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. This is the second of a series about mentors — whether friends, family, coaches, guides, or teachers — and how we can […]
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Author identifies key internet trends, offers solutions to its thorny problems Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence we can make things better. As I like to say, today is another day of opportunity. José Luis Orihuela was an online […]
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Spain’s infoLibre increases subscribers, staff, audience during Covid crisis The name of one of Spain’s notable survival stories in public-service journalism–infoLibre–contains the essence of its guiding principle. It literally means “free information”–that is, free of undue influence from political and business interests. In his annual public letter, Jesús Maraña, editorial director, attributed the publication’s financial […]
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As we all struggle to make sense of the flood of disinformation and misinformation in digital media, some entrepreneurs are developing businesses to help us identify the good stuff, the credible stuff. At the heart of one of the three business models is transparency–full disclosure–to increase our trust of particular media. And the other two […]
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We see lots of hand-wringing about the sorry state of local news organizations because of digital disruption of their financial models. I just happened on a 2016 study by Clare Cook, Kathryn Louise Geels, and Piet Bakker that finds reasons for optimism while realistically assessing the problem. Their study, Hyperlocal revenues in the UK and […]
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This blog entry was written for IJNet.org, Tips for Journalists in 2020 from other Knight International Journalism fellows. The losing strategy that seeks mass audiences and mass advertising as measured by unique users and page views has led many media to chase clicks with ever-more sensationalistic content about celebrities, sports figures, imprudent politicians and sex […]
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