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Pocos creyeron que un sitio web de periodismo de investigación podría sobrevivir ¿Por qué escribir sobre “razones para el optimismo” cuando tantas cosas van mal en nuestra política, economía y medio ambiente? El optimismo nos da la confianza de que podemos mejorar las cosas. Como me gusta decir, cada día es otro día de oportunidad. […]
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Few believed a subscription-only website of investigative journalism could survive Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence we can make things better. As I like to say, it’s another day of opportunity. Conventional wisdom predicted failure for the French startup […]
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Mediapart’s digital subscription model succeeded slowly, then spectacularly The French digital news startup Mediapart’s five founders—well known journalists from the venerable publications Le Monde and Libération— defied conventional wisdom of the time when they launched the investigative journalism site in 2008. The media industry graveyard was already littered with examples of failed subscription models for […]
Read More »De GDJ Clipart, de Openclipart.org Recientemente he leído mucho sobre una nueva manera de valorar los medios de comunicación que beneficiaría a los emprendimientos en periodismo, que casi siempre carecen del capital suficiente para sostenerse. Sociólogos y economistas, entre otros como Pierre Bourdieu han escrito sobre el concepto de capital social desde hace muchos años. Me causa cierta […]
Read More »From GDJ’s Clipart, Openclipart.org Lately I have been reading a lot about a new way of valuing media that would benefit entrepreneurial journalism ventures, which nearly always lack capital to launch and sustain themselves. Sociologists and economists have been writing about it for years — social capital — and I am embarrassed to say that […]
Read More »The online investigative publication that recently reported French President Nicolas Sarkozy received 50 million euros in campaign support from Libya in 2007 is an anomaly: a profitable subscription-only service that accepts no advertising. Mediapart is showing that in the right circumstances, an investigative news organization can be a viable business. Investigative journalism in the […]
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