Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
The true role of universities has always been the improvement of society. Developing leaders is a key part of that. The scholars of universities immerse themselves in the values, ethics, culture, and history of a society and then communicate it to the students. Those of us in the humanities tend to think of innovation as […]
Read More »Olga Ruiz: Create something unique. PAMPLONA, Spain — In August of 2013, Olga Ruiz returned from a refreshing summer vacation ready to start her 16th season on the COPE radio network in Barcelona. But on her arrival, the managers told her and her team that they were being fired. “The best period in my professional […]
Read More »Oscar Castilla: “You have to think about the business model” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Oscar Castilla spent 12 years at El Comercio, Peru’s most important daily newspaper, honing his reporting skills with investigations of organized crime and corruption. Versión en español Then in 2014, Castilla and some colleagues from the investigative unit decided to […]
Read More »A year ago I wrote an article about digital media startups around the world and attempts to categorize and analyze them. Some of that material is now a bit dated, and I have come across some other analyses and lists that have good road maps for media entrepreneurs. The Open Society Foundations has sponsored a […]
Read More »PorCausa is a new species of digital media for Spain: nonprofit journalism. Its founder and director, Gumersindo Lafuente, is a respected veteran of some of Spain’s most important media — El País, El Mundo, and the late lamented digital pioneer Soitu.es). Given the limited resources available, he runs the operation much in the style of […]
Read More »Versión en español BRISTOL, England — A few years ago, I was on a team designing a master’s degree in digital journalism. The university required that we propose three areas of research for the professors in this program to pursue. One subject area we proposed was new business models for news. Another was the use […]
Read More »Versión en español. It was a bit depressing to hear the results of a study of 34 digital media natives during the Third Latin American Forum of Digital Media and Journalism. Overall, these sites showed little interaction with their audiences in social media, little use of maps, graphics, and visualizations, and little consideration of the business […]
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