In August 2016, Catalan journalist Ismael Nafría and his family traveled 5,330 miles from Barcelona to Austin, Texas to spend a year at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas, as part of its Journalist-in-Residence program.

During that time, he wrote and published the book “The Reinvention of The New York Times,” coordinated a series of stories on journalistic innovation in Latin America (also published as an e-book) and has now launched a weekly newsletter on digital media innovation.

Nafría’s newsletter, includes articles, studies and reports on the digital media industry around the world. He explained that his goal is for the newsletter to share “good ideas, interesting readings and other practical materials that help us to better carry out our work and to understand the profound changes that affect the media sector.”

“For some time now I thought that a product like Tendenci@s could be very useful for any professional involved in one way or another in the development of digital media in the Spanish-speaking world,” Nafría said. “There are many new developments in this area and it is not easy to keep up. In addition, in many cases, there is a lack of analysis and context to understand whether something is really important or not.”

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