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“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 […]
Read More »Source Fabric in Prague, which provides free, open-source content management systems for news organizations around the world, invited me to speak at their conference in the Czech Republic in October 2011. They made a video of my presentation (below), which was about digital news entrepreneurs in South Africa, Malaysia, Guatemala, Costa Rica and other countries. […]
Read More »Versión en español. As traditional media organizations cut back on staff and coverage, thousands of new digital media are popping up all over the world to fill the gaps. I’ve compiled 14 lists of startups below. Some startups are included on more than one list. Can you think of any lists that I’ve left out? […]
Read More »Charles Lindbergh and his plane. (Library of Congress photo via Mother Nature Network) Bill Bryson’s book One Summer: America, 1927 captures a moment when the country’s burgeoning news media feasted on the stories of two extraordinary men, Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh. The media made them into gods. The baseball hero basked in the attention. The […]
Read More »Gencarelli, Manhattan College Photo Versión en español Communications professors at Tec of Monterrey had a visitor last week, Thom Gencarelli of Manhattan College, who made us think about what we are teaching and how we are doing it. Among the questions he left us with: In 1985, Neil Postman wrote that the dominant media of […]
Read More »One in six U.S. residents is of Hispanic or Latino origin. Half consume news in Spanish. This post was prepared for sharing at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism Entrepreneurial Journalism Educators Summit July 10. Much of the material is drawn from previous blog posts. American universities are leaders in creating programs in entrepreneurial […]
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