With the worsening of the pandemic, newsrooms have returned to teleworking, a modality with which they had already become familiar. It is like stepping back on a terrain in which the dynamics of a new way of practicing journalism took root, never completely eliminated. The first experiences we lived in March 2020 created the conditions … Continue reading Stepping on familiar ground once again
The Listin Diario during 2021
The Listin closes a year again with extraordinary numbers of visits and readership on its Web portal. Between January 1 and December 29, our website registered 507,981,572 visits. These data represent a return to the rationality lost during 2020, when due to the push of the pandemic, all reading indicators were altered upwards. Listin closes … Continue reading The Listin Diario during 2021
An inside out change for the newspapers
Unlike digital media, which have a wide menu of technological tools to innovate, the only thing left for print is to change the product inside and out, although with limited options. The starting point is to recognize that in a world massively communicated by electronic devices, the paper format has to identify the real profile … Continue reading An inside out change for the newspapers
The pitfalls of multimedia convergence
Uniting two formats, print and digital in the same newsroom, is the pinnacle of the so-called multimedia convergence, the most complete expression of the new communications ecosystem. Technologically speaking, multimedia is crystallized by uniting the resources of each medium (text, graphics, audio and video) through the facilities that allow different applications on the web. But … Continue reading The pitfalls of multimedia convergence
Printed with digital skin
The avant-garde newspaper designer, Mario García, is fascinated by transformative bets and now he comes up with another magnificent audacity: diagramming newspapers with the visual concepts of mobile phones. "It is fascinating to be fluctuating from mobile to print journalism almost simultaneously", migrating the characteristics of the digital format to the covers and some inside … Continue reading Printed with digital skin
Aging journalists at the forefront
It may seem curious, but the great thrust of digital adaptation has been the work of the oldest headlines of the traditional press. Several of them, with more than a hundred years of journalism, are today successful models of digital journalism and, to a large extent, great beneficiaries of the monetization of their content and … Continue reading Aging journalists at the forefront
Audio, an accelerant toward digital journalism
The development of audio formats to give news, tell human stories or give advice or didactic tutorials, is now one of the most pressing efforts that digital journalism has to increase audiences. Podcasts not only enrich the computing and specialized content offer, but they have also become monetizable pieces, such as Netflix series. That is … Continue reading Audio, an accelerant toward digital journalism
The hybrid newsroom
The pandemic suddenly transformed the newsrooms of traditional newspapers, giving way to a hybrid model in which the digital modus operandi is imposed as the key engine of its structure. There are many indications of that change. For example, the ways of planning and executing news searches and, later, of prioritizing and deciding their staging … Continue reading The hybrid newsroom
The “industrialization” of the news input
To survive in the new communications ecosystem, print newspapers have to learn to swim against the tide of the technological forces that drive the success of digital journalism. Their challenge, now, is to resist two dynamic lines of the digital world: the immediacy of information and the dissemination of false or manipulated news, and compete … Continue reading The “industrialization” of the news input
Prelude of deeper layers
The technological bet to create a Metaverse, the new ecosystem of the Internet, and the revelations about Chinese advances in quantum computing, now herald what will be the future scenario of social communications in the world. As these are two great qualitative leaps, one that will allow users to experience life in the real and … Continue reading Prelude of deeper layers
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