El secreto de eldiario.es: tratar a los usuarios como verdaderos socios en el proyecto periodístico

“Somos independientes porque somos rentables.” — Ignacio Escolar, director El mundo periodístico se fija en el éxito de eldiario.es como medio independiente en España y quiere duplicarlo. No será nada fácil. En breve, crece en audiencia e ingresos mientras otros medios están en desplome. Es gratuito en línea pero 56.000 “socios” pagan al menos 60€ […]

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How digital media monetize their social capital

From GDJ’s Clipart, Openclipart.org Lately I have been reading a lot about a new way of valuing media that would benefit entrepreneurial journalism ventures, which nearly always lack capital to launch and sustain themselves. Sociologists and economists have been writing about it for years — social capital — and I am embarrassed to say that […]

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Eldiario.es logra rentabilidad con periodismo puro y duro

A pesar de todas las malas noticias sobre el colapso del modelo de negocio de los medios tradicionales, la publicación digital eldiario.es de España demuestra que el buen periodismo es un buen negocio. Escolar: “Journalism is a public service that has to be profitable” El fundador y consejero delegado, Ignacio Escolar, discreparía con el concepto […]

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14,500 friends lay out cash for aggressive journalism

Amid all the bad news about business models for high-quality journalism, eldiario.es (“The Daily”) in Spain shows that good journalism can be good business. Escolar: “Journalism is a public service that has to be profitable” Its founder and CEO, Ignacio Escolar, just announced that the publication finished 2015 with revenues of US$ 2.6 million, up […]

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In Spain, two digital journalism success stories

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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