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Emilio Garcia-Ruiz speaks to the press in Huesca. Photo by EFE HUESCA, Spain — Yes, it’s good to have a billionaire owner with patience, but it’s even better to have a billionaire owner with a vision. And the vision of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is that a news organization has to make its work […]
Read More »News publishers are again the pawns in a chess game among the big technology platforms, mainly Google, Facebook, and Apple. And while publishers are losing control of their future, users are gaining a better experience with pages that load faster on mobile devices. This is the scenario that is emerging with the expanded rollout of […]
Read More »Jarvis: think first of the community Several years ago I was working in Belarus, a former Soviet republic, where independent newspapers have a hard time surviving. The government denies them access to state-monopoly newsstands, overcharges them for their newsprint, and harasses them at every turn. We looked at one publisher’s website data to see if […]
Read More »English version Fue el escritor de ciencia ficción Arthur C. Clarke quien escribió: “cualquier tecnología lo suficientemente avanzada no puede distinguirse de la magia”. Y, claramente, muchos piensan lo mismo acerca de las aplicaciones para smartphones. Medios de noticias hacen un trato con el diablo en Facebook. Las aplicaciones móviles pueden mostrarnos mapas detallados de […]
Read More »A deal with the devil. Versión en españolIt was the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke who wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” And clearly many people think that way about applications for smartphones. Mobile apps can show us detailed maps of most places on earth. They can read QR […]
Read More »English version. Un reconocido crítico de los medios de comunicación dio la voz de alarma en 1960 acerca de las adquisiciones corporativas de periódicos y los despidos de cientos de periodistas. Le preocupaba que el poder de la prensa comenzara a concentrarse en muy pocas manos. Fue en su columna en el New Yorker, The […]
Read More »A renowned media critic sounded the alarm in 1960 about corporate takeovers of newspapers and layoffs of hundreds of journalists. He worried that the power of the press was being concentrated in too few hands. Liebling, from Slate.com (Versión en español) It was in his column in the New Yorker, The Wayward Press, that A.J. […]
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