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Entrepreneurial journalists have a tough job. They need skills not only in journalism but marketing, technology, sales, managing online communities and basic accounting, among other things. Fortunately, they don’t need to have all the skills mastered at once. Start small, but start This is one of the takeaways from entrepreneurs profiled in Mark Briggs’s book […]
Read More »Rosalia Lloret: People are searching for crediblesources amid an avalanche of information. Versión en español aquí. El País is widening its lead as the No. 1 newspaper website in Spain with 7.6 million unique users in June (for comparison, the number is 74 million for the New York Times). At the same time the newspaper’s corporate […]
Read More »Spain is suffering through a newspaper crisis as severe as that in the U.S., and the response of one of its leading newspapers has been to expand into new markets.El Pais, part of Grupo Prisa, is cutting editorial staff at its headquarters in Madrid, but it just announced an expansion of its coverage of Mexico […]
Read More »While print newspapers are losing subscribers and advertisers in the rest of Europe, an Italian print publication launched by an investigative reporter is thriving because of its independent voice.Il Fatto Quotidiano (The Daily Facts) has been slaying sacred cows since 2009 and makes its money from subscribers and newsstand sales — roughly 6 million euros […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí.I have been inspired by a book about 13 new digital media launched in Spain by entrepreneurial journalists.The book — Microperiodismos: Aventuras Digitales en Tiempos de Crisis — profiles some news organizations that are defying the voices of pessimism, the economic crisis in Spain and competition from the traditional media.The authors, Eva […]
Read More »Let’s not cry any more about the decision of Advance Publications, a profit-driven enterprise, to reduce its newspapers in New Orleans and Alabama to publishing three days a week. It is sad for the people who were laid off, and we who love print are disappointed. But this was inevitable. The big newspaper chains have […]
Read More »Two years ago the buzz was that mobile was the next big thing, and now that consumers are moving to tablets and smartphones, the moment has arrived. Nielsen says that 50.4% of mobile users now have a smartphone. More than two-thirds of those in the 25-34 age group have a smartphone. The report is here. […]
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