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
Day: May 10, 2021
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
Towards a digital “mindset”
Implementing the digital mindset is one of the most difficult processes that marks the transition between journalism in print newspapers on paper and that of electronic editions. Because it is not only about making a systemic connection of a model for planning, searching and disposing of news in a paper format, but also about assuming … Continue reading Towards a digital “mindset”
Journalism in YouTube code
With the formidable audience of “millennials” and “centennials” devouring audiovisual information, today's journalism directs the prow of its narratives towards really compatible ways of communicating facts, taking into account these preferences. Social media platforms, but especially YouTube, have paved the way for the experimentation of interactive and dynamic audio and video products in digital newspapers, … Continue reading Journalism in YouTube code
A delicacy of good readings
“Sunday Readings”, our digital supplement, celebrates its first year as one of the models in our digital transformation process. It was born on March 15, 2020 in the middle of the pandemic along with other versatile content bets with which the LISTIN DIARIO wanted to break the monothematic field of disturbing news about Covid. With … Continue reading A delicacy of good readings
A long-legged news
The Covid pandemic has been, in journalistic jargon, a long-legged news. It has been the predominant day by day, for a whole year, in almost all the countries most affected by deaths and infections of the coronavirus. We couldn't expect any less. An event of this magnitude has had repercussions in all spheres of life … Continue reading A long-legged news