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‘Journalism is not in a crisis, it is reinventing itself,’ he says upon retirement Iñaki Gabilondo speaking at the University of Navarra, where I taught, in 2018. (Author’s photo) What better model of Spanish eloquence and journalistic integrity could there be than Iñaki Gabilondo. For decades, he was the host of Spain’s top morning radio […]
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Keep expectations high, focus on a few key metrics, build credibility and trust Ray Shaw was the boss at American City Business Journals where I worked for 18 years. I still hear his voice in my head, asking pointed questions and insisting that I give evidence to justify opinions. Above, Ray came to Columbus in […]
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A popular blog post from 2018: how to think like a businessperson Author’s note: This month, I am re-publishing some popular posts. This article first appeared on my website in 2018 and is one of the most popular from the past decade. Many of the circulation and revenue numbers in the text and the links […]
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Publications need communication grads with traditional skills and tech savvy–Joanna Sullivan Joanna Sullivan has spent much of her career as a reporter and editor of business publications. Her tenacity as an investigative reporter was one of the reasons I promoted her to editor of the Baltimore Business Journal. Her career began before digital media dominated […]
Read More »His latest historical novel tells of CIA misinformation campaign Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel laureate in literature, has just published a historical novel, Tough Times (“Tiempos recios”), whose plot is based on the 1954 overthrow of the democratically elected government in Guatemala that was engineered by the CIA. For the novelist, that conspiracy has many […]
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How should a media executive manage the business during a time of disruptive technological change? Alfonso Nieto attempted to answer that question in his book “Letters to a newspaper publisher,” written in 1987 when newsrooms in Spain were moving from typewriters to computers. His comments have acute relevance today. In this letter to a […]
Read More »An all-star group of media economics experts gathered at the University of Navarra Dec. 13 and 14 to exchange ideas and research results on the role and behavior of media during periods of economic or financial boom and crash. Their approaches were varied: historical, media effects, content analysis, journalistic practice, political economy, etc. (The full […]
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