Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
Incognito mode was safer in a world filled with rumors and vicious gossip In my previous newsletter, I talked about how Shakespeare lived and worked in a time of media disruption comparable to our own. He was an entrepreneur, a theater owner, a content creator, and a stage performer in the new business of public […]
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In a Spanish podcast, we talked about what digital native media are getting right Earlier this month I had the good fortune to be interviewed by my friend and former colleague José Luis Orihuela, professor of communication at the University of Navarra in Spain. José Luis, author of the book Culturas Digitales (Digital Cultures) co-hosted […]
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Find out what matters to your community; it might not be your news stories This week’s post focuses on examples of successful business strategies for local news publishers. The strategies have become ever more critical as local news organizations have suffered mightily in the covid-19 crisis. Several years ago I was working in Belarus, a […]
Read More »Predicting the future has always been a dangerous business in the creative industries. As any economist will tell you, products like books, movies, TV shows, and music are “experience goods”, which can only be evaluated after they are purchased or experienced. Making predictions or recommending strategies is especially difficult now with rapid technological change disrupting […]
Read More »Journalism professors are adapting to the realities of a historically tough job market. Their graduates are struggling to find stable work in an industry whose biggest players have been cutting staff for a decade. So universities are teaching new skills — multimedia production, community management, data management and visualization, among others — as well as […]
Read More »In our search for the next big thing, we often overlook some of the steady innovators who grow organically without millionaire investors or crushing debt loads. Alfonso Vara-Miguel of UNAV One such example is El Confidencial of Spain (their slogan: “The preferred daily of influential readers”). This is a digital news publication whose value proposition for […]
Read More »Latin America has spawned a rich breed of online news publishers who are challenging mainstream journalism. These digital natives have achieved significant influence by innovating with digital tools. They often aim to provide an alternative to the traditional voice of mainstream media, which are usually linked to political and business interests that have long predominated […]
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