The Covid pandemic suddenly took away two classic pictures associated with traditional diarism: it took the 'canillitas' or street criers off the streets and took away from the front pages their quality of being news screens. The 'canillitas' were, for a long time, the announcers of the news, based on the headlines of the newspapers … Continue reading No street criers and no covers to compete
Tag: Covid-19
The future of the newspapers
With the steep decline in newsprint production and consumption due to the pandemic, print newspapers face a future fraught with difficult challenges. Paper is now a rare and expensive commodity. The strong campaigns for the defense of the forest in the context of the climate change crisis, plus the progressive transformation of printed newspapers into … Continue reading The future of the newspapers
A long-legged news
The Covid pandemic has been, in journalistic jargon, a long-legged news. It has been the predominant day by day, for a whole year, in almost all the countries most affected by deaths and infections of the coronavirus. We couldn't expect any less. An event of this magnitude has had repercussions in all spheres of life … Continue reading A long-legged news
The information fatigue
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
184 headings and 160 articles just about Covid
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
Wider grounds for “free-lancers”
The most unexpected feature for journalism, regardless of the platform, was telecommuting. With this Covid pandemic, not only did the shift toward the digital environment accelerate, so did remote work, a practice that until this situation was limited to correspondents abroad or within the country. The need to confine vast masses of different populations, in … Continue reading Wider grounds for “free-lancers”
The media alliances are coming
The fusion of the printed and digital platforms, something already very widespread, is now followed by alliances or media merges as part of the rearrangements that the press seeks to survive the Covid-19 tsunami. Many printed media lost the battle by suspending their publications, and this refreshed reality of an ecosystem settled in the digital … Continue reading The media alliances are coming
With an open heart
A real journalist has two innate values: courage to denounce any abusive power and the lack of fear to any dangers, whatever they might be. During the Covid-19 pandemic, for example, reporters were on deserted streets, in hospital wards, or within human crowds looking for news, at all risks. In different cities of Latin America, … Continue reading With an open heart
We’ll never be again what we once were
It may sound harsh or pessimistic, but after these violent setbacks due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, it's foreseeable that the traditional press will never be what it once was, again. Right now, with a sight of severe cutbacks in advertising, the most robust newspapers out there are publishing editions with no more than 24 … Continue reading We’ll never be again what we once were
The second digital wave
The pre-eminence that digital journalism has already had is on its way to new heights in a world that will open up to the “new normal”, focusing on online technologies to spread news and content of greater value, such as those that have traditionally been the strong side of the printed press. These quality inputs … Continue reading The second digital wave
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