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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 […]
Read More »English version here. Cientos de sitios web están surgiendo con el objetivo de reemplazar la cobertura de noticias locales que se está perdiendo mientras los diarios recortan personal y publican con menos frecuencia. Muchos de ellos son iniciados por los mismos periodistas que acaban de ser despedidos u organizadores comunitarios que quieren que las instituciones […]
Read More »Apollo 13 engineers celebrate safe splashdown.NASA photo, April 1970. NBC News via AP Versión en español aquí. Journalists who are starting their own digital media should learn to think more like engineers and scientists. For them, solving a problem involves repeated trial and error. They view each step not as a failure but as a […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Hundreds of websites are popping up to replace the community news coverage lost as daily newspapers cut staff and publish less frequently. Many of them are started by the very reporters who have just been laid off or community organizers who want to hold public institutions accountable. What these new media […]
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