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Reduced university subsidies and digital competition threaten their survival The explosive growth of academic research and the need of researchers to publish their findings have contributed to a financial crisis in the ecosystem of academic publishers. The causes and solutions were debated during an online roundtable sponsored by Spain-based CRECS (International conference of journals of […]
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The $2.2 trillion Coronavirus economic rescue package contains some elements that could and should benefit journalists and their media organizations. As Ken Doctor points out in Nieman Lab, the package gives incentives to news publishers both large and small to maintain their payrolls. Publishers and broadcasters with fewer than 1,000 employees are eligible for $350 […]
Read More »A deal with the devil. Versión en españolIt was the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke who wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” And clearly many people think that way about applications for smartphones. Mobile apps can show us detailed maps of most places on earth. They can read QR […]
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