Here is the man Felix Salmon will work with at Fusion.net

The news about Felix Salmon’s decision to leave Reuters and join Fusion.net threw a spotlight on this new digital venture of ABC and Univision. A few weeks ago I interviewed Fusion’s chief of digital, mobile and social platforms, Daniel Eilemberg. He talked about the target audience of Fusion — millennials —  and his other entrepreneurial […]

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ISOJ: 3 ways the journalism business is changing

Versión en español aquí.  Three of the speakers at the International Symposium on Online Journalism changed the way I look at the business of journalism: Jim Moroney, CEO of A.H. Belo and publisher of the Dallas Morning News; Jim Bankoff, founder and CEO of Vox Media, and Valtteri Halla, chief technical officer at Leia Media […]

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How 3 independent news sites have survived 5 years

Juanita Leon, founder of La Silla Vacia. ISOJ photo. Versión en español aquí. Launching a news publication online is the easy part. Paying the bills and surviving for several years is the hard part. Three of those who have evolved and survived for at least five years are La Silla Vacia, a political website in […]

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Startups aimed at millennials thrive in 3 languages

Joey Chung, co-founder of The News Lens Versión en español aquí. Some of the fastest growing digital media in Asia, Latin America and the U.S. are tapping into a young audience that wants news that is less partisan, more believable and sometimes irreverent. Animal Politico in Mexico started out as a Twitter feed with an […]

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Digital entrepreneurs turn to mobile for users, revenue

Leo Prieto:betting on “mobile first” Versión en español aquí. Leo Prieto is a digital media entrepreneur in Chile whose 10 communities attract an audience of 10 million users a month from all over the Spanish-speaking world. Late last year, his company, Betazeta, decided to go “mobile first” and optimize the design of all its sites […]

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Mexican blogger builds a business out of political satire

Chumel Torres Versión en español aquí.  Chumel Torres is a video-blogger whose satiric take on politics and journalism has managed to attract 483,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel in just one year. He has made a business out of the sponsors he attracts to his weekly program,  El Pulso de la República (The Pulse of […]

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Who’s a journalist? Only the public can decide

Versión en español aquí. Jean-François Fogel has the best description I have heard of the new relationship between journalists and the public in the world of digital media. Simply put, only the public can decide whose work deserves the respect and attention we previously gave to journalists working at major media. It is the public […]

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