Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
In our search for the next big thing, we often overlook some of the steady innovators who grow organically without millionaire investors or crushing debt loads. Alfonso Vara-Miguel of UNAV One such example is El Confidencial of Spain (their slogan: “The preferred daily of influential readers”). This is a digital news publication whose value proposition for […]
Read More »Latin America has spawned a rich breed of online news publishers who are challenging mainstream journalism. These digital natives have achieved significant influence by innovating with digital tools. They often aim to provide an alternative to the traditional voice of mainstream media, which are usually linked to political and business interests that have long predominated […]
Read More »A year ago I wrote an article about digital media startups around the world and attempts to categorize and analyze them. Some of that material is now a bit dated, and I have come across some other analyses and lists that have good road maps for media entrepreneurs. The Open Society Foundations has sponsored a […]
Read More »Jarvis: think first of the community Several years ago I was working in Belarus, a former Soviet republic, where independent newspapers have a hard time surviving. The government denies them access to state-monopoly newsstands, overcharges them for their newsprint, and harasses them at every turn. We looked at one publisher’s website data to see if […]
Read More »Front page of La Vanguardia, in Catalan BARCELONA, Spain — Americans are used to traveling thousands of miles within their wide open spaces and hearing only English, with variations of accent and expression. But in France, Germany, Spain, and other parts of Western Europe, there are still regions of distinct languages and dialects preserved by […]
Read More »“I never thought about how much I was spending on media. I just took it for granted, and now I realize that it is more than I would have imagined.” — student at Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Versión en español I recently surveyed 22 students in a seminar on how much they spend on […]
Read More »“Business journalism is a wonderful career”. Versión en español. MEXICO CITY — Francisco Vidal Bonifaz has worked as a business journalist in Mexico for three decades, and he sees lots of possibilities for growth in this niche. There are not many journalists with training in this field, either in Mexico or other countries. And there […]
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