12 road maps for sustainable digital media worldwide

Renaissance maps showed monsters, hazards to avoid. The future of journalism is increasingly digital, mobile, and in flux. It is unexplored territory.  Like the explorers and navigators of the Renaissance, various organizations – governments, NGOs, journalism groups, and universities, among others – have been trying to map the most promising routes to sustainability in the […]

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Latin America spawns scores of innovative news sites

Latin America has spawned a rich breed of online news publishers who are challenging mainstream journalism. These digital natives have achieved significant influence by innovating with digital tools. They often aim to provide an alternative to the traditional voice of mainstream media, which are usually linked to political and business interests that have long predominated […]

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Investigative journalists form alliance in Latin America

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The United States has been the world’s biggest market for just about everything, including illegal drugs, and that creates big problems for its neighbors. Carla Minet Versión en español So much money from the drug trade flows into Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean that it corrupts governments, courts, police, […]

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Media innovators inspire hope around the world

A year ago I wrote an article about digital media startups around the world and attempts to categorize and analyze them. Some of that material is now a bit dated, and I have come across some other analyses and lists that have good road maps for media entrepreneurs. The Open Society Foundations has sponsored a […]

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‘Desktop is the new print’ as public goes mobile

Julio Alonso, director general WeblogsSL (James Breiner photo) BURGOS, Spain — In 2004, management consultant Julio Alonso got the itch to write about gadgets and technology. He started a blog and a year later that evolved into the website Xataka. Since then he and his partners have built WeblogsSL, a community of 36 websites in […]

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A one-man band: journalist, designer, salesman

Versión en español. Erick Falcon started out as a journalist. Mainly he liked writing about science, technology, and fine food in long feature articles as a freelancer for the Sunday magazine of El Universal newspaper. That might seem like a strange mix, but he lives in Ensenada, Mexico, on the northwest coast, about 65 miles […]

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