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The new ecosystem of small news organizations continues to evolve at breathtaking speed. When you consider that it has been only four years since the news industry’s business model went into free fall, the number of new organizations and their quality are impressive. Also impressive is the financial support that they have attracted. J-Lab has […]
Read More »Hiram Enriquez, director of digital media at MTV Networks, has a saying that is worth repeating to those who want to start their own media: “Nobody cares about your blog.” It’s a way of recognizing that there are millions of blogs and other media competing for attention on the web. In other words, if you […]
Read More »Versión en español. It was out of frustration that Carlos Mora de la Orden started collecting and organizing information about the economy and stock market in his home country of Costa Rica. Although an engineer by training, he is a financial adviser by profession. He wanted to provide his clients reliable, up-to-date information untainted by […]
Read More »Gumersindo Lafuente: Journalists need to look ahead, not back. “You can´t live off nostalgia.” (Photo by James Breiner) Versión en español aquí. Gumersindo Lafuente, 53, is one of Spain‘s pioneers in digital journalism. He headed the web operations at El Mundo before going out on his own in 2006 and launching soitu.es, an innovative news […]
Read More »During a presentation at the Complutense University of Madrid (center), I talked about the new vision of entrepreneurial journalism (center photo) and some of its advocates. One of the attendees created a collage of the people mentioned: (clockwise, from upper left) Clay Shirky of NYU, Dan Gillmor of Arizona State University, Brian Stelter of the […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Sandra Crucianelli is a pioneer in hyperlocal journalism on the Web. Her news website, Solocal.info (Just Local), provides in-depth investigative coverage of the industrial port of Bahia Blanca, 400 miles from Buenos Aires in Argentina. She and two partners manage the site, which has 790 registered users and 50 regular contributors […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. A study of 54 independent journalism sites in Latin America has found that 20% of these new ventures produce no revenue. What’s more, only one-fourth of the for-profit operations are covering their costs. Most did not do a financial viability study before launch and less than half are taking advantage of […]
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