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Versión en español aquí. In an interview with the Spanish website LaInformacion.com, Juan Antonio Giner, co-founder of Innovation Media Consulting, shared some of his strong opinions about how young journalists and traditional media should confront the challenge from digital media. Spain’s traditional media, like those in the U.S., have experienced devastating declines in revenues and […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. New Yorker writer Evan Osnos is as fine a storyteller in person as he is in print. Tsinghua University journalism students left their texting thumbs idle Oct. 24 as he told how he profiled a former barber named Siu Yun Ping, who won close to $100 million at baccarat in Macau. Osnos […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. The Poynter Institute held a conference last week to showcase its latest study of how tablet users consume news and the problems designers have in satisfying these users’ demands. Tablets are rapidly becoming a platform of choice, with 22 percent of U.S. adults owning one, double the percentage of just a year […]
Read More »This interview was originally published in the magazine Periodistas (Journalists), a publication of the Federation of Journalist Associations of Spain (FAPE), and is translated below. (Here is the original in Spanish.) By Marta Molina, Editor, Periodistas James Breiner is, along with guru Jeff Jarvis, one of the most consulted U.S. experts on new digital media. A […]
Read More »The importance of search engines to traffic on news sites spawned an industry of consultants on search engine optimization (SEO). But now social media may be challenging the dominance of “Google juice.”The percentage of Americans getting their news via social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ has risen to 19 percent, more than double […]
Read More »Reed Hundt A single digital marketplace where ideas and goods flow freely across borders offers great potential for economic growth. It also makes many national leaders worry about loss of control of their people and culture. Whether and how to control the Internet is the biggest unanswered question facing countries today, said Reed Hundt, who […]
Read More »Newton (Knight Foundation photo) (Versión en español aquí.) University journalism programs are not changing fast enough to meet the needs of students entering an industry in which job opportunities lie in ventures that are entrepreneurial and multimedia, say experts writing a series of articles for Nieman Lab. One of the commentators is Eric Newton, who says […]
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