When the train of technological change sounded the starting whistle to a new destination for the media, many called to get into their wagons preferred to stay on the platform. Those who then awaited his arrival and approached him in other sections of his infinite route, are evolving since then towards the field of transformations … Continue reading The day we got on the wagon
The different “vessels” of the news
Today's journalism cannot be conceived without news multiformat. The news, unlike years ago, does not die as fast as before. Or rather, it does not lose its relevance from one day to the next; it mutates like viruses, always circulating in different ways to survive and go further. News in text format evolves towards other … Continue reading The different “vessels” of the news
More than news, information
Users of digital platforms go to them more looking for information than news. They look for content that summarizes important, contextualized and specialized data, in order to acquire basic knowledge for decision-making. The news, pure and simple, reflects events of interest but is not enough to provide pure and valuable knowledge. Hence the reception and … Continue reading More than news, information
The how and why
In the journalistic tradition, for many years, the so-called "inverted pyramid" served as the essential structure for writing news meant to be published on the newspapers. At present, however, the rigor of this rule or format has become more flexible to allow another model of organization and title of the text since printed newspapers, rather … Continue reading The how and why
The oxygen that’s running out
"We are in a disastrous spiral." That's how Pat Henderson described it, and he had no shortage of reasons for his bitterness. The executive of Quad/Graphic, one of the North American companies dedicated to the printing and publishing business, put his finger on the sore of a problem that is getting worse every day. That … Continue reading The oxygen that’s running out
Reconnecting with readers
Forced by lockdowns during the first year of the Covid pandemic, many print newspapers suffered subscriber churn or abandonment of street shoppers. Others definitively lost a large share of their traditional customers by suppressing the print editions and converting them to digital, the format to which news consumers turned en masse. The digital "boom" in … Continue reading Reconnecting with readers
Even the formats of headlines have changed
In the time of sobriety, traditional newspapers used to use their news headlines as if they were telegraphic messages. They often dispensed with certain prepositions and articles that, in good grammar, would help to weave the correct thread of a sentence. But the practice of communicating with few words and in a space already delimited … Continue reading Even the formats of headlines have changed
No street criers and no covers to compete
The Covid pandemic suddenly took away two classic pictures associated with traditional diarism: it took the 'canillitas' or street criers off the streets and took away from the front pages their quality of being news screens. The 'canillitas' were, for a long time, the announcers of the news, based on the headlines of the newspapers … Continue reading No street criers and no covers to compete
The future of the newspapers
With the steep decline in newsprint production and consumption due to the pandemic, print newspapers face a future fraught with difficult challenges. Paper is now a rare and expensive commodity. The strong campaigns for the defense of the forest in the context of the climate change crisis, plus the progressive transformation of printed newspapers into … Continue reading The future of the newspapers
Context and interpretation
Faced with the avalanche of news spreading instantly through digital networks, traditional media have the field in their favor to attract readers who seek contextualization and interpretation of relevant facts. Attacking the superficiality of the pure and simple news is now an inescapable task for those media that know how to gather all the pieces … Continue reading Context and interpretation
