Miguel Franjul
In a world of abbreviated communications and miniaturized technologies, the basic tools of journalistic writing also had to submit to a dictatorship of concise summaries. I mean, to adapt to the conditions that force the use of short or concise texts that synthesize the most important elements of a news item, instead of accessories. This … Continue reading The dictatorship of summary
Little by little a very special elite is growing: that of those readers who look for true and reliable news on the exclusive pay sites of digital newspapers. As elite readers there will also remain, in the future, those who maintain their subscriptions with traditional print newspapers that are already refining their content to focus … Continue reading A journalism for the elites
Connecting traditional journalism with modern journalism is one of the most difficult stages in the transition to the new communication ecosystem. It is not enough to adapt technologies that facilitate the dissemination of information on digital platforms, but to adapt the mentality of those who will be responsible for handling them properly. Despite the strong … Continue reading Reinventing the journalist
The press rooms were the real “sancta santorum” of a newspaper, a vast and imposing space in which large machines linked in a chain, at a frenetic pace, printed cut and formatted the paper editions of the traditional newspapers. The operators, clad in special suits and with noise-resistant ear protectors, moved between inks, metal plates … Continue reading The silence of the press
In an era in which technological applications are the ones that determine the new profiles of digital journalism, the written press only has conceptual weapons left to continue fighting for its physical presence. Due to the nature of its format, which is determined by size, pages and content limited to non-animated texts and graphics, the … Continue reading The new battles of the written press
The practice of translating news into several languages has been one of the strong points in the versatility of international news agencies. As their clientele is worldwide, they strive to maintain correspondence posts in different regions of the planet, serving them in their own language, which allows them to prepare multilingual packages with summaries of … Continue reading Multilingual news
To the extent that audiences prefer audiovisual news, the journalist gets out of the old schemes that kept him practically anonymous sooner. When the printed newspapers monopolized the dissemination of news processed with high professional sense, the author's signature became an identity stamp and depending on the frequency, importance or hierarchical importance that their news … Continue reading More tangible, and less anonymous
Like hurricanes, whose speed, intensity and trajectories can be different from those that can be predicted, this is how the changes that are taking place in the new communications ecosystem are similar. The digital went through the same phases: from trough to tropical wave, from this to storm and then to hurricane, with different degrees … Continue reading The digital hurricane
The exercise of a journalism based on kinship to the audience is no longer allowed, different from the times in which news broadcasters were enough to inform but not interact or dialogue with the public. Now opportunities are opening for the journalist to become more visible, less anonymous, before those who read, listen or watch … Continue reading Journalism of kinship
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
