Miguel Franjul
These reflections have just marked their second anniversary of weekly releases, the same amount of time since the merge of the printed and digital platforms of the LISTIN DIARIO. With such reflections, I've really been trying to explain, step by step, the reasons and the scope of this transformation. On June 9th of 2017, this … Continue reading Two years of good articles
The greatest newspapers of today haven't yet feared the digital plunge; partly because they are pioneers of a journalistic model that puts together several resources at once (text, audio, video and graphics), in a lively and interactive way to keep a good relationship with the audiences. The most recent reinventions or transformations of such traditional … Continue reading The digital dive
The exercise of high-quality journalism on the digital platforms, is the inevitable path to take for the reinvention of the printed one, which has discovered in such networks a nourishing field of wider audiences and income. The commitment to the depth of information, the antithesis of the superficiality that characterizes the bulk of data that … Continue reading Carrying a journalism of quality to the networks
Every morning, as an inviolable ritual, the editorial meeting of the Listin Diario begins with a look at the metrics that reveal which news are read the most, in hierarchical order, on both our printed and digital platforms. To the surprise of those who have chosen the front-page news a day before, on the assumption … Continue reading What most do not read
The confluence of the printed and digital platforms has held the virtue of converting the traditional journalism model into a newer one that knows how to take advantage of technological innovations to reach more readers, with a more precise knowledge of their tastes and habits. Before, the offered content by the printed newspapers were organized … Continue reading The reconversion of journalism
After a long period on which the newspapers worked their hardest to offer the largest volume of news content, now the printed press privileges a new model based on transcending all fresh or brand new content. Of the latter, digital platforms are held more accountable of, thanks to their immediate profusion of data; while printed … Continue reading Content creators
Nowadays, there's more thirst for reading than ever before, but the patterns of schedule and manners for this consumption have drastically changed. The so-called "long reading", which characterized the era on which the newspapers controlled the monopoly of information, has transmigrated into a culture of the brief and instantaneous. The studies that usually monitor the … Continue reading The first five lines
Readers of yesteryear were the ones that would actually look forward to getting a copy of the daily newspapers in their hands, sometimes having to go outside and reaching out to the stalls, acquiring them from vendors or waiting with eagerness on that delivery man that would leave some at their doors. During that time, … Continue reading Hunting for readers
Just like in the structure of the human brain, there's two hemispheres within the modern media newsrooms that share the task of harmoniously articulating the practices and strategies of the newest journalism model during this digital age. So as the right hemisphere of the brain controls the muscles of the left side of the body … Continue reading The different hemispheres of the integrated newsrooms
First the newsreels, then the 24/7 televised news took over the traditional model that prevailed during decades in which the printed newspapers held the priority for managing and disseminating information. This is the genesis of the greatest challenges that the traditional media have had to face during each cycle of innovation nowadays, as they strive … Continue reading The keys for reinvention
