Miguel Franjul
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
