Cultural publication ‘flirts with the Dark Side’ in Spain

July 18, 2015
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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 […]

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Publisher Q: Never give up, never surrender

July 27, 2011
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Versión en español aquí. The new digital media entrepreneurs who are struggling to survive can take some inspiration from the story of Q*,  an independent newspaper publisher in a country of the former Soviet Union. (* Name withheld to protect him from further government repression.)In 1990, Q was among many journalists who founded newspapers independent […]

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