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Kinsey Wilson. Photo by Mary Kang/Knight Center AUSTIN, Texas — One of the dirty little secrets in digital media is that the big numbers of page views and unique users touted by publishers are misleading at best. They overstate a publication’s audience size and impact. Most visitors to a publisher’s content are fly-bys: They stay […]
Read More »Investigative journalists have achieved a new level of sophistication and collaboration as shown by this explosive investigation of offshore tax havens used by the wealthy and powerful. The investigation by 109 media organizations from 76 countries has shaken government leaders from China to Russia to Great Britain. It has led to the resignation of the prime minister of […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »Emilio Garcia-Ruiz speaks to the press in Huesca. Photo by EFE HUESCA, Spain — Yes, it’s good to have a billionaire owner with patience, but it’s even better to have a billionaire owner with a vision. And the vision of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is that a news organization has to make its work […]
Read More »Last week the Department of Communication at the University of Navarra invited 16 alumni with interesting career paths to share their stories with the students. I attended four of the sessions and heard a similar comment from each of the presenters: I never imagined that I would be doing the things I am doing now […]
Read More »News publishers are again the pawns in a chess game among the big technology platforms, mainly Google, Facebook, and Apple. And while publishers are losing control of their future, users are gaining a better experience with pages that load faster on mobile devices. This is the scenario that is emerging with the expanded rollout of […]
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 […]
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