Cómo los universitarios pasan el tiempo en los medios digitales

Por cuarto año, pedí a mis alumnos a medir cuánto tiempo y cuánto dinero gastan en el consumo de todos los medios. El ejercicio es parte de mi asignatura de “Economía de los Medios” en la Facultad de Comunicación en la Universidad de Navarra. Los alumnos deben estimar sus gastos mensuales completando un cuestionario con […]

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News publishers develop playbook to defend against government attacks

In Brazil, Hungary, Poland, and Mexico, populist presidents have weaponized social media to undermine the press Editors of leading publications in those countries described their own strategies to defend press freedom. Key elements: don’t back down, collaborate internationally, protect your team, uncover the facts. Some of the tactics used by populist presidents include taking over […]

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It takes a village to identify false news

Filloux: A credibility scorecard Liberal democracies are being tested around the world by the rapid diffusion of misleading or false information designed to influence voters. It has happened in France, Catalonia, the U.K., and, of course, the U.S. Many have proposed–for example, the World Economic Forum–that two of the most powerful vehicles for spreading information, […]

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Reader loyalty gains strength as a news metric

Michael McCutcheon of Mic.com As the publisher of a business newspaper in Baltimore, I used to tell advertisers confidently that no other news medium could duplicate our audience of CEOs, business owners, and high-income decision makers. First Yahoo Finance undermined us. With their user database, they could deliver advertisers the same people who were reading […]

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Mexican blogger builds a business out of political satire

Chumel Torres Versión en español aquí.  Chumel Torres is a video-blogger whose satiric take on politics and journalism has managed to attract 483,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel in just one year. He has made a business out of the sponsors he attracts to his weekly program,  El Pulso de la República (The Pulse of […]

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