Miguel Franjul
As the undisputed matrix of professional journalism, the written press has a widely favorable field to strengthen this role by taking advantage of the innovations that accompany the modern information age. What was believed to be one of its limitations, the paper format, has been overcome by replicating its content on digital in its own … Continue reading No reason to die on the eve
In the “clash of metals” that has literally taken place in the traditional ways of delivering the news and the current modalities created by social networks, the spark of a new informational paradigm has emerged. Unlike before, the news does not have a specific expiration period. It can occur in different ways for a time … Continue reading News in colloquial talk
In this era of audiovisual communication, all the molds that metered the dissemination of news have been broken. The inverted pyramid rule, which organized the writing of the news based on its most important elements (who, what, when, how and why), seems doomed to disuse under current circumstances. Being more audiovisual than textual, the news … Continue reading Changing the ways of delivering news
Despite the long time that social media users spend reading or viewing content, the amount of time spent on individual stories is surprisingly short. On average, digital news reports a time of two and a half minutes. We are talking about texts no larger than five paragraphs of 50 or 60 words each, which is … Continue reading Reading time is shortened
The newspapers have become, in practice, a sort of by-product within the arsenal of options that exist within the information and news ecosystem, where the digital torrent is predominant. Our bets are mostly related with the issues that the audiences deem as viral, whom are the ones that nowadays draw the guidelines and whose preferences … Continue reading Our very bets
At a certain point, due to the Covid pandemic, the contents of the press became necessarily monothematic. The only news we all were seeing was the virus saga, with all its downsides. And of course, we couldn't have expected less. Being a new virus, difficult to decode, with unpredictable expansion and magnitude of aftermath, the … Continue reading The information fatigue
Ten months of struggle through the Covid pandemic have undoubtedly created a new school of modern journalism in which human stories become the center and object of information, rather than outright declarations. Readers and users of both information and specialized contents, today, make up the right audience that can trace all routes of information by … Continue reading 184 headings and 160 articles just about Covid
Back when there wasn't much profusion of videos, just TV, the big job of describing realities through newspapers actually rendered journalists with no other option than display their uttermost skills on graphing things out through the written word. Non-fiction literature exponents, excellent chronicles and outstanding reports, were what contributed to the transmitting of specific details … Continue reading The text, under the decisive war for survival
Although united umbilically by technology, digital and printed newspapers of the same company indeed operate in parallel ways on the current information ecosystem. Newspapers companies bet on quality of limited contents in a scheme from beginning to end, focused on a mass of readers, while the digital ones bet on the massification of users, represented … Continue reading Users and readers, two different cultures
As we lean towards a journalism of digital platforms, the Listin Diario is determined on climbing new steps in the quality of content of its print edition, under the motto of "making the difference, every day." Making the difference involves a job similar to that of carving a diamond. In our case, it's all about … Continue reading The “table of depth”
