Miguel Franjul
The newspapers have become, in practice, a sort of by-product within the arsenal of options that exist within the information and news ecosystem, where the digital torrent is predominant. Our bets are mostly related with the issues that the audiences deem as viral, whom are the ones that nowadays draw the guidelines and whose preferences … Continue reading Our very bets
At a certain point, due to the Covid pandemic, the contents of the press became necessarily monothematic. The only news we all were seeing was the virus saga, with all its downsides. And of course, we couldn't have expected less. Being a new virus, difficult to decode, with unpredictable expansion and magnitude of aftermath, the … Continue reading The information fatigue
Ten months of struggle through the Covid pandemic have undoubtedly created a new school of modern journalism in which human stories become the center and object of information, rather than outright declarations. Readers and users of both information and specialized contents, today, make up the right audience that can trace all routes of information by … Continue reading 184 headings and 160 articles just about Covid
Back when there wasn't much profusion of videos, just TV, the big job of describing realities through newspapers actually rendered journalists with no other option than display their uttermost skills on graphing things out through the written word. Non-fiction literature exponents, excellent chronicles and outstanding reports, were what contributed to the transmitting of specific details … Continue reading The text, under the decisive war for survival
Although united umbilically by technology, digital and printed newspapers of the same company indeed operate in parallel ways on the current information ecosystem. Newspapers companies bet on quality of limited contents in a scheme from beginning to end, focused on a mass of readers, while the digital ones bet on the massification of users, represented … Continue reading Users and readers, two different cultures
As we lean towards a journalism of digital platforms, the Listin Diario is determined on climbing new steps in the quality of content of its print edition, under the motto of "making the difference, every day." Making the difference involves a job similar to that of carving a diamond. In our case, it's all about … Continue reading The “table of depth”
Shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic, the newsrooms have had to hasten the steps toward the remodeling of their logistical and hierarchical frames for news coverage. There is no predetermined scheme, but one that determines the reality of a market and the ability of the spapers to transform rapidly and survive in the midst of a … Continue reading The newsrooms get remodeled
The most unexpected feature for journalism, regardless of the platform, was telecommuting. With this Covid pandemic, not only did the shift toward the digital environment accelerate, so did remote work, a practice that until this situation was limited to correspondents abroad or within the country. The need to confine vast masses of different populations, in … Continue reading Wider grounds for “free-lancers”
Every day, video and audio formats become stronger supports for human communications and their learning. News in such formats outweigh, in preference, the text. The optimal language lays on the visualization of images and listening to vocalized content. The newer generations, who've been educated with more established learning models in these two formats, prefer to … Continue reading A great challenge for the written press
To connect the different formats and paces within the transition from the printed to the digital platform, it is necessary to walk, very carefully, over the moving bridges that unite them. The current pandemic has made some cross these bridges very quickly, through the path of no return. They migrated their paper editions onto digital, … Continue reading The moving bridges between the printed to digital
