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How should a media executive manage the business during a time of disruptive technological change? Alfonso Nieto attempted to answer that question in his book “Letters to a newspaper publisher,” written in 1987 when newsrooms in Spain were moving from typewriters to computers. His comments have acute relevance today. In this letter to a fictitious […]
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How should a media executive manage the business during a time of disruptive technological change? Alfonso Nieto attempted to answer that question in his book “Letters to a newspaper publisher,” written in 1987 when newsrooms in Spain were moving from typewriters to computers. Nieto was one of the pioneers in the discipline of media economics, […]
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This is the third year I have done an unscientific survey of my students in Media Economics about how they use their smartphones. The point of the exercise is for them to do their own assessment and make observations. In previous years they simply counted how many notifications or alerts they received on their phones […]
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Cees van Riel is an internationally known scholar and consultant who has spent much of his career studying how to measure the reputation of organizations and use the data for better decision-making. During a recent chat with faculty at the University of Navarra, he talked about how a growing body of research links the financial […]
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Someone named Chris Lynn at the blog Worldwide News has taken dozens of my blog posts and put his own byline on top of them. Evidently the sole purpose of the blog Worldwide News has been to kill the online version of an investigative report about official corruption published by the Mail & Guardian newspaper […]
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IJNet has recently launched its Media Entrepreneurship Toolkit to help journalists make their own projects financially sustainable. My contribution was an introduction to some of the basics of accounting and budgeting. Some of the key points to keep in mind: There are some free online budgeting and accounting software packages that can organize your financial […]
Read More »Tina Kaiser. Photo by Gisela Gürtler News organizations have been losing credibility for years, and the reasons are many. Too often, we journalists have been arrogant and said, in effect, Trust us, we know what we’re doing. But today, journalism is under attack, and we have to explain why people should trust us. Versión en […]
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