Sustainable journalism: view from Latin America

At ISOJ, stories of collaboration on viability, fact-checking, free expression The International Symposium of Online Journalism (ISOJ) has been a showcase of media innovation since its launch in 1999 by Rosental Alves, director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas, Austin. I’ve attended and spoken at several of […]

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The war on journalists intensifies

The disinformation tactics at work against the press in the Philippines should be a warning to democratic societies all around the world. “Our dystopian present is coming to a democracy near you,” said investigative journalist Maria Ressa, CEO of the publication Rappler, who has watched the evolution of attacks on her work over the past […]

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Loyal users will pay for watchdog journalism

Kinsey Wilson. Photo by Mary Kang/Knight Center AUSTIN, Texas — One of the dirty little secrets in digital media is that the big numbers of page views and unique users touted by publishers are misleading at best. They overstate a publication’s audience size and impact. Most visitors to a publisher’s content are fly-bys: They stay […]

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Tres formas en que el negocio del periodismo está cambiando

English version here.  Tres de los oradores del Simposio Internacional de Periodismo Online (ISOJ, por sus siglas en inglés) me hicieron cambiar mi forma de ver el negocio del periodismo: Jim Bankoff, fundador y CEO de Vox Media; Jim Moroney, CEO de A.H. Belo y director general del Dallas Morning News; y Valtteri Halla, jefe técnico de Leia Media […]

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Tres medios digitales exitosos que apuntan a la generación del milenio

Joey Chung de News Lens, que se reproduce en Chino. ISOJ foto. English version here. Algunos de los medios digitales que vienen creciendo más rápidamente en Asia, América Latina y Estados Unidos están apostando a un público joven que busca noticias menos partidarias, más creíbles y a veces hasta irreverentes.  Animal Político en México comenzó […]

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ISOJ: 3 ways the journalism business is changing

Versión en español aquí.  Three of the speakers at the International Symposium on Online Journalism changed the way I look at the business of journalism: Jim Moroney, CEO of A.H. Belo and publisher of the Dallas Morning News; Jim Bankoff, founder and CEO of Vox Media, and Valtteri Halla, chief technical officer at Leia Media […]

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