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Newsstand owner Jesus Erro: Publishers are fudging their sales numbers. PAMPLONA, Spain – Those who study the business of media tend to look at it from the perspective of journalists and publishers. But the owner of a newsstand in the heart of this provincial capital has a different point of view. Jesus Erro, 56, has […]
Read More »Charles Lindbergh and his plane. (Library of Congress photo via Mother Nature Network) Bill Bryson’s book One Summer: America, 1927 captures a moment when the country’s burgeoning news media feasted on the stories of two extraordinary men, Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh. The media made them into gods. The baseball hero basked in the attention. The […]
Read More »Version en español aquí. New York Times editor Jill Abramson says that half the people coming to the newspaper’s website in the runup to the election were searching for Nate Silver, the political forecasting whiz who writes the blog FiveThirtyEight. “He got huge, huge readership,” she said at a conference covered by MediaBistro. “They weren’t coming for the […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. In an interview with the Spanish website LaInformacion.com, Juan Antonio Giner, co-founder of Innovation Media Consulting, shared some of his strong opinions about how young journalists and traditional media should confront the challenge from digital media. Spain’s traditional media, like those in the U.S., have experienced devastating declines in revenues and […]
Read More »The importance of search engines to traffic on news sites spawned an industry of consultants on search engine optimization (SEO). But now social media may be challenging the dominance of “Google juice.”The percentage of Americans getting their news via social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ has risen to 19 percent, more than double […]
Read More »Rosalia Lloret: por la avalancha informativa digital, usuarios prefieren consultar marcas creíbles English version here. EL ESCORIAL, España — El diario El País se está mejorando su posición como el medio de comunicación número 1 de España con 7,6 millones de usuarios únicos durante el pasado mes de junio (en comparación a los 74 millones de El New […]
Read More »Rosalia Lloret: People are searching for crediblesources amid an avalanche of information. Versión en español aquí. El País is widening its lead as the No. 1 newspaper website in Spain with 7.6 million unique users in June (for comparison, the number is 74 million for the New York Times). At the same time the newspaper’s corporate […]
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