Miguel Franjul
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
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
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
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
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
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
Now forced, due to the corona virus pandemic, to grapple through two challenges - the mass of audiences and the quality of contents - the press is seeking extra journalistic reinforcements to survive. Journalism faculties, natural sources of the human team that feed the printed and digital media, haven't had time to train professionals that … Continue reading The new reinforcements the press needs
Before the pandemic, smartphones had already emerged as the most widely used electronic devices for the look-out of news. That preeminence is now much greater. So much so that it has given way to new formats of telling stories or handing news, taking into account not only the narrow space of those screens, but the … Continue reading Journalism on mobile
When smartphones became the all-rounder of communications, the camera industry paled and it looked like it was already being left stranded at the museum of pre-modern relics. Smart phones, with their respective integrated cameras that are every time more meant to replace traditional models that have existed since their invention back in 1816, jeopardized the … Continue reading Changing shapes, not the background
The digital future is already a reality of the present. Traditional press was never oblivious to this perspective. The emergence of such ecosystem of information glimpsed upon us gently and, to a large extent, we were preparing for the upcoming connection. Integrated newsrooms or multimedia models were the first signs that the digital route was … Continue reading The “digital future” is now
