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One of my most popular blog posts from 7 years ago is still surprisingly relevant This article first appeared on my website in 2014 and it remains one of the most popular. The revenue sources are still relevant, and so are the business principles behind them. For this post, I’ve updated some of the text […]
Read More »As part of my recent work with DW Akademie, I was interviewed for a podcast that is part of the training and tools they offer to media startups. What follows is a summary of the key points of the podcast: Who are our clients, what do they need? The biggest mistake that media startups make […]
Read More »Editor’s note: This post was updated 3 June with an eighth best practice. For the last seven years I have been interviewing and profiling successful entrepreneurial journalists in various countries of various socieconomic classes. I’ve talked to publishers and editors with staffs of as many as a hundred as well as some one-man/one-woman bands. The […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Who would have thought that a small-town newspaper could discover a new revenue source worth $100,000 by repackaging some of its content? As the Wall Street Journal reports, a local best-selling book in a Montana town is “We Don’t Make This Stuff Up: The Very Best of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle […]
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