Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
Before Google and Facebook, high-speed fiber-optic service opened up the world A potentially embarrassing exercise is to read articles you wrote a few months or years ago. Sometimes it’s because you made predictions that were way off base. I was recently browsing through some old columns I wrote when I was publisher of the Baltimore […]
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And other illusions that are not supported by reliable data There seems to be a natural human tendency to believe that people today are worse than people of previous generations. That people used to be polite and considerate and generous, but now they’re mean and cruel. Just look at all the crime, people say. And […]
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Their cellphone apps ping, buzz, or flash dozens of notifications every hour Note to readers: Two years ago I asked my second-year students in Media Economics at the University of Navarra to do an analysis of their media expenditures and usage. This post is based on that survey. First, I asked them to estimate their […]
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Author identifies key internet trends, offers solutions to its thorny problems Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence we can make things better. As I like to say, today is another day of opportunity. José Luis Orihuela was an online […]
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Most Americans are tired of extremism; the media can help give them a voice Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence we can make things better. As I like to say, it’s another day of opportunity. If you are one […]
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Journalists have the tools to get people engaged in solving local problems “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those were the resolute words of the wheelchair-bound man who was taking office as president in 1933. He was elected in the depths of the Depression, with millions unemployed and the economy in […]
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We journalists assume it’s a problem, but plenty of independent data says no Consider this blog entry a followup to my recent post, Economists ask, Does advertising actually work? The alarm bells started ringing for me when I saw the article in First Draft discrediting a Rolling Stone story that depicted anti-vaxers as pawns of […]
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