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The secret lies in treating users like partners in the journalism project “We’re independent because we’re profitable.” — Ignacio Escolar, director, eldiario.es The journalism industry has noticed the success of the digital media startup eldiario.es and is trying to duplicate it. That will not be easy. This independent news publication in Spain has been growing […]
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Hace tres años, SembraMedia perfiló 25 startups en Brasil para demostrar la vivacidad del sector mediático. Tres de ellos que han prosperado en el interino–JOTA, Nexo y Ponte–ofrecieron algunas actualizaciones el sábado en un panel, “El nuevo periodismo digital de Brasil,” moderado por Janine Warner, co-fundadora y directora ejecutiva de SembraMedia. El panel fue parte […]
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El colapso del modelo de negocio que sustentó a muchos medios tradicionales está abriendo puertas para las mujeres en los medios digitales. Los nuevos medios fundados por mujeres también han expandido el panorama de temas de cobertura para incluir todos los aspectos de la vida, lo que también expande las fuentes de ingresos potenciales, explicó […]
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It’s encouraging to hear from media entrepreneurs who see a promising future for the funding of quality journalism. And the message we heard last week from the leaders of the American Journalism Project is that they are discovering lots of previously untapped revenue sources. The key, of course, is to produce quality journalism. There is […]
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After the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016, some journalism organizations decided to go all-in on the notion that it wasn’t enough to present two sides of an issue if one side was clearly misleading or patently false. It was seen as the end of “objectivity”, the end of “false equivalence”, the end […]
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In Brazil, Hungary, Poland, and Mexico, populist presidents have weaponized social media to undermine the press Editors of leading publications in those countries described their own strategies to defend press freedom. Key elements: don’t back down, collaborate internationally, protect your team, uncover the facts. Some of the tactics used by populist presidents include taking over […]
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The stories of innovative digital news media are one of my favorite parts of ISOJ, the International Symposium on Online Journalism now under way at the University of Texas, Austin. This year was no exception, and in just one hour, an all-star panel managed to leave us with many ideas and even wanting more. The […]
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