Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
Thanks to those who gave us gave us a bit of life-changing advice This is the first of a series about mentors —whether friends, family, coaches, guides, or teachers — and how we can be good mentors to others. With rapid change in the digital world, we need to be lifelong learners and teachers. Sometimes […]
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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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This post was prepared for a SembraMedia webinar on 10 July, “How to teach entrepreneurial journalism” (Cómo enseñar el periodismo emprendedor) . The session was attended by professors from all over the Spanish-speaking world. The 1-hour session was recorded on video (Spanish). This blog post is aimed at those who teach entrepreneurial journalism–basically, how to […]
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This is the third year I have done an unscientific survey of my students in Media Economics about how they use their smartphones. The point of the exercise is for them to do their own assessment and make observations. In previous years they simply counted how many notifications or alerts they received on their phones […]
Read More »If I am not careful, my cellphone will wake me up in the wee hours with buzzes or pings to let me know that news organizations and family members on the other side of the world, in different time zones, are trying to get my attention. Is it too dramatic to say that “there is […]
Read More »I want to share with you my translation of a blog post (Spanish) by my friend and colleague Jose Luis Orihuela, a professor at the University of Navarra, author, and keynote speaker. Orihuela is addressing a problem that faces many teachers and professors: they say their students are distracted by all the media on their […]
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