Cuesta un mundo identificar los bulos en las noticias

Fillloux: calificación de credibilidad La rápida difusión de las noticias falsas diseñadas para influir en los votantes está poniendo a prueba las democracias del mundo desarrollado. Francia, Catalunya, el Reino Unido, y, por supuesto, los Estados Unidos han experimentado su propia historia asombrosa de esta tendencia. Desde diferentes instancias nacionales e internacionales se ha propuesto -un ejemplo es el World […]

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It takes a village to identify false news

Filloux: A credibility scorecard Liberal democracies are being tested around the world by the rapid diffusion of misleading or false information designed to influence voters. It has happened in France, Catalonia, the U.K., and, of course, the U.S. Many have proposed–for example, the World Economic Forum–that two of the most powerful vehicles for spreading information, […]

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Publishers look beyond Facebook, Google for revenues

A deal with the devil. A new study by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) confirms what I have suspected for a long time: when publishers rely on Facebook for distribution, they are making a deal with the devil. “Reality Check: Making Money with Facebook” was based on a survey of an “expert […]

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How quality content can win in the long run

Digital advertising is broken for many publications. Back in the days when my job was persuading advertisers to spend money with our business publication, I would talk about the importance of a client’s ad appearing next to credible, high-quality content. Editorial environment matters, was the argument. Google, Facebook, and Yahoo pretty much destroyed that business […]

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Media value lies in relationships, not scale

Amid all the news about how Facebook and Google are devouring the world, I would like to sound a note of optimism for digital news media. But first, let’s acknowledge the bad news. It is true that the munch munch munch you are hearing is the sound of the Internet giants biting off big slices of […]

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Lo que significa el disparate del ‘contendio distribuido’

El siguiente es un extracto del capítulo de un libro sobre los medios digitales que se publicará en breve. Entre los muchos acontecimentos significativos que sucedieron en los medios informativos digitales en 2015 cabe destacar la emergente práctica de la creación, la distribución y la monetización de la información hecha pública en forma de “contenido […]

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