6 months ago, I left the sinking newspapers of Western Europe to study online media in the vibrant post-socialist Europe.
17,000 miles, 19 countries and 75 interviews later, I produced this report entitled ‘Online news in post-socialist Europe‘ that provides an overview of the current developments happening on the Eastern front.
Online news in post-socialist Europe
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Bigmir ratings est l’équivalent ukrainien de Médiamétrie//Netratings. Bigmir appartient également à KP Media, géant national sur le web.
Le conflit d’intérêt reste un art de vivre dans les médias post-soviétiques, même quand cela nuit à l’ensemble du secteur.
A Kiev, j’ai rencontré Maxon Pugovsky, chef des projets web du groupe Agora en Ukraine. On a discuté, [...]

When you start an online business in North America or in Europe, you usually follow 3 steps:
1.       Build your project in your garage (or kitchen). Using your friends and family money, you implement your idea in concrete html and php.
2.       Look for investors. Once you’re ready to grow, you go looking for real money, be [...]

Every media manager dreamed of a website where citizen journalists would publish high-quality articles while making money. I met with a Ukrainian entrepreneur who made it (almost) happen.
Citizen journalism seemed to be a fad, judging from the failure of Skoeps.nl, Backfence or Oh My News Japan and the financial difficulties of Oh My News in [...]