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Mis colegas docentes son expertos en la economía de la industria de los medios de comunicación, y hace poco tuvimos un animado debate sobre cómo revertir la crisis financiera del periodismo. El colapso del modelo de negocio de la industria está poniendo en peligro a la institución periodística –el Cuarto Estado, el contrapeso al poder–, […]
Read More »These projects aim to restore trust. In a blog post earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of Credibility as the new currency of journalism, its significance in an era of distrust of the media, and its economic value for high-quality journalism. A big thank you to Christine Schmidt of Nieman Lab who has […]
Read More »English version here. Jill Abramson, editora del New York Times, afirmó que la mitad de la gente que visitó la página web del periódico en el período antes de la elección presidencial estadounidense llegó a la página buscando a Nate Silver, el genio de la previsión política que escribe el blog FiveThirtyEight. “Tuvo muchos, muchos lectores”, […]
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 »Newton (Knight Foundation photo) (Versión en español aquí.) University journalism programs are not changing fast enough to meet the needs of students entering an industry in which job opportunities lie in ventures that are entrepreneurial and multimedia, say experts writing a series of articles for Nieman Lab. One of the commentators is Eric Newton, who says […]
Read More »Newton (Knight Foundationphoto) (English versión here.) Los programas universitarios de periodismo no están cambiando lo suficiente para mantenerse actualizados, relevantes y útiles, concluyen expertos estadounidenses en una serie de artículos para Nieman Lab. Entre ellos está Eric Newton. El ambiente mediático requiere no solo un cambio de rumbo concreto, sino adquirir una cultura de cambio continuo […]
Read More »At first it seems an unlikely place for an expensive paywall business model to work — Nova Scotia. Nearly 6,000 subscribers are paying $360 a year for access to the AllNovaScotia.com website, according to Tim Currie’s story in Nieman Lab. That’s about $2 million and represents 80 percent of the revenue of the site. How […]
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