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Martin Rodriguez Pellecer of Nomada SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — You usually don’t hear an investigative journalist talk about the importance of learning business skills. But that is the case with Martin Rodriguez Pellecer, 32, founder of two notable digital news media organizations in Guatemala, Plaza Publica and Nomada, the latter launched last year. Versión […]
Read More »The truth hurts, especially when the truth is contained in receipts from bars, hotels, spas, and luxury vehicle dealers. Israel Piña, from Quien Compro website. A group of five young Mexican journalists has spent the past year or so sifting through thousands of expense reports of Mexico’s senators and deputies (congress) to see how they […]
Read More »Olga Lucia Lozano, creative editorof La Silla Vacia Versión en español aquí. The cofounder of one of the most important investigative journalism sites in Colombia, La Silla Vacia (The Empty Chair), has some advice for those who are thinking about creating their own website, app or whatever: “Don’t think about it, do it. Doing things […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí.I may have misled people for the last few years by saying that investigative journalism is not a business but a public service.Other people — namely Felix Salmon, Jeff Bezos and four journalists cited by Journalism.co.uk — are reminding me that investigative journalism does, in fact, have commercial value.First, Felix Salmon, the […]
Read More »The online investigative publication that recently reported French President Nicolas Sarkozy received 50 million euros in campaign support from Libya in 2007 is an anomaly: a profitable subscription-only service that accepts no advertising. Mediapart is showing that in the right circumstances, an investigative news organization can be a viable business. Investigative journalism in the […]
Read More »At first it seems an unlikely place for an expensive paywall business model to work — Nova Scotia. Nearly 6,000 subscribers are paying $360 a year for access to the AllNovaScotia.com website, according to Tim Currie’s story in Nieman Lab. That’s about $2 million and represents 80 percent of the revenue of the site. How […]
Read More »Justin Arenstein never really wanted to work for a big corporation, but that is how he started out in journalism. He was a reporter working on contract covering one of the desperately poor shantytowns of his native South Africa. He and his colleagues ran afoul of corporate management by covering the death squads that were […]
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