Miguel Franjul
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
In the jargon of yesteryear's journalism, the "cold cuts" were outdated news that the majority of newspaper readers, as well as radio and TV consumers, were supposed to already know about. Being typified like this, it was just like a sin for a newspapers company to publish such things as fresh news when other media … Continue reading “Cold cuts” news are no more
With the onset of the digital era, the Listin Diario became the pioneer newspaper for the implementation of virtual classrooms on regard of basic education programs of the Dominican Republic. Through its “Plan Read”, inaugurated in 1989, it’s reached thousands of physical schools with content specifically aimed at primary, intermediate and high school students. Teachers, … Continue reading The virtual classrooms of the Listin Diario
Now forced, due to the corona virus pandemic, to grapple through two challenges - the mass of audiences and the quality of contents - the press is seeking extra journalistic reinforcements to survive. Journalism faculties, natural sources of the human team that feed the printed and digital media, haven't had time to train professionals that … Continue reading The new reinforcements the press needs
The fusion of the printed and digital platforms, something already very widespread, is now followed by alliances or media merges as part of the rearrangements that the press seeks to survive the Covid-19 tsunami. Many printed media lost the battle by suspending their publications, and this refreshed reality of an ecosystem settled in the digital … Continue reading The media alliances are coming
Before the pandemic, smartphones had already emerged as the most widely used electronic devices for the look-out of news. That preeminence is now much greater. So much so that it has given way to new formats of telling stories or handing news, taking into account not only the narrow space of those screens, but the … Continue reading Journalism on mobile
When smartphones became the all-rounder of communications, the camera industry paled and it looked like it was already being left stranded at the museum of pre-modern relics. Smart phones, with their respective integrated cameras that are every time more meant to replace traditional models that have existed since their invention back in 1816, jeopardized the … Continue reading Changing shapes, not the background
Journalism of quality and depth is now the hallmark of the newer paradigm of the written press. These qualities are the only alternatives for it to survive this phenomenon of massive consumer migration onto the digital platforms. Although it fights against the economic effects of the change in audiences, facing a drastic decline in advertising … Continue reading The press unleashes its new paradigm
