Video, data-mapping, and AI drive innovative media in Latin America

Publishers have to be creative to overcome censorship and protected monopolies James Breiner Originally published Apr 25, 2024 I’ve always been inspired by the all-Spanish session of the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin (video of the session here, program here). Despite scarce resources, censorship, and stifling oligarchies, our Latin American colleagues manage to […]

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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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Reasons for optimism #5: SembraMedia’s discoveries

200 digital native media on three continents provide models for sustainability Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence that we can make things better. As I like to say, it’s another day of opportunity. SembraMedia gives us another reason to […]

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The death of news has been greatly exaggerated

In a Spanish podcast, we talked about what digital native media are getting right Earlier this month I had the good fortune to be interviewed by my friend and former colleague José Luis Orihuela, professor of communication at the University of Navarra in Spain. José Luis, author of the book Culturas Digitales (Digital Cultures) co-hosted […]

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Help springs from many sources for media startups

Global study recommends new tactics for funders, universities, tech platforms What follows is an edited excerpt of the Recommendations chapter of SembraMedia’s Inflection Point International study of 201 digital native media in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Read the full report here–also in Spanish and Portuguese. It is republished under Creative Commons 4.0 ShareAlike international […]

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Journalists pay a price for speaking truth to power

Many endure threats, cyberattacks, even physical violence in 3 global regions What follows is an edited chapter of the study Inflection Point International of SembraMedia about 201 digital native media in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. This chapter deals with Media Freedom and Journalist Safety. Read the full report here–also in Spanish and Portuguese. It […]

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Three skill sets needed for successful digital news media

Global survey finds sales, tech experts help generate many times more revenue What follows is an edited excerpt of the Digital Media Teams chapter of SembraMedia’s Inflection Point International study of 201 digital native media in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Read the full report here–also in Spanish and Portuguese. It is republished under Creative […]

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