Miguel Franjul
This coronavirus pandemic has rapidly accelerated the transition from the traditional press to the web, a process that was already gradually on-going to give full priority to the “digital first” model. The moment came for us, forcing us to change all work schemes and to atomize our newsroom, so that most of the staff, including … Continue reading Editorial offices are now a desert
As difficult or intricate this general phenomenon may seem, just like any catastrophe of mother nature, a war or a broad collapse of communications, journalism always finds its way to fulfill its sacred duty of reporting the truth of what's happening. As these disruptive phenomena of life unfold, personnel of the press appeal to the … Continue reading Journalism under quarantine
Among the transformations that traditional newspapers undergo to tune in with the preferences of emerging audiences lays the tendency of merging any outstanding content into the digital, supported by a diversity of formats that modern technologies allow us. One of these changes consists in converting everything to the digital or an intermediate or transitional step, … Continue reading Sunday’s lecture, another added value of the LISTIN DIARIO
This March 11th, the Listin Diario celebrates its first anniversary of undergoing a radical transformative process with aims to adapt to the new journalistic models imposed by the era of multiplatformed media. We reduced our standard paper size to a comfortable tabloid prototype, not to meet a simple cosmetic and superficial overhaul but as the … Continue reading One year after the transformations
With the arsenal of new communication technologies, digital users are now inclined to the formats that tell the story of an episode, its background and impacts, just as podcasts and storytellings do with increasing success. It's not surprise that under the influence of Spotify and Netflix, the bulk of digital users show preferences for these … Continue reading The news: more than spreading them, to tell them
Our great mass of readers has been very interested, these days, on digital media to find out about all the novelties and updates that revolve around the Dominican youth at the flag's plaza. Exact or inaccurate, the news flow and arouse feverish states of excitement among those who read them, inducing towards either the acceptance … Continue reading Immediacy vs. relevance
In this modern era, newspapers are more than a compendium of news, graphics and ads on paper. They're many things at once: a distributer of digital content, a bit of TV and a bit of radio and a more real, direct and active interlocutor with its users. That is the magic of multimedia. Amalgamating many … Continue reading The newspapers are many things at once
"Printed newspapers should die by 2005, at most" was being the bleak sentence decreed ten years before such year came, based on the irruption of the Internet. The paper was supposed to lead its inevitable burial. Back then, I remember how these were the actual disturbing omens that aired to proclaim a pessimistic future for … Continue reading And the newspapers didn’t die…
It's no coincidence that the world's greatest newspapers, strongly committed to the “digital first” strategy, are focusing on the audio format to spread their news, that is, offering them through podcasts and other auditory transmission models. The new habits of digital users is what's strengthening such trend that privileges the listening over reading, in a … Continue reading To listen, more than to read
Analysis, contextualization and explanations are three basic elements within the package of new content with which the printed newspapers lead their redefinition process, trying to mark a differentiated line against the digital offers. These three elements may be perceived in a work of value, such as essays, opinion notes and researches focused on one or … Continue reading What printed media should bring
