A new generation of leaders looms on the horizon of the world's most important media, as digital formats accelerate the transformation of journalism and open the way to other models of mass communication. Emblematic directors of traditional newspapers, such as Marty Baron, of The Washington Post and Roberto Pombo, of El Tiempo de Colombia, following … Continue reading It’s relay time for journalists
Tag: Digital Journalism
2020, the trigger for the digital leap
The transition to digital platforms had been, until 2020, a gradual process, in some cases timid, for most of the print media of the traditional press. Although it was seen as an inescapable necessity in the face of the overwhelming growth of digital audiences, favored by the mass use of electronic devices, especially the mobile … Continue reading 2020, the trigger for the digital leap
Our very bets
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
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
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
No longer are there any comfort zones in the newsrooms
At the speed that innovations that transform the digital platform are all taking off, there simply can't be any comfort zones in the integrated newsrooms anymore, just like it happened at the times when we only produced our printed editions. Back then, our routines did manage to change radically, as is the case now, since … Continue reading No longer are there any comfort zones in the newsrooms
The printed and digital world, two different bets
Although they converge as twin platforms in a single newsroom, the bets for each platform are very different and the success of the editors comes from identifying which contents mark the strengths for each format. We're clear about this premise: the newspapers no longer monopolize the information nor can they aspire to be the first … Continue reading The printed and digital world, two different bets
News to be “seen” and “heard”
At the rate of the changes that impact digital journalism, in less than two years, according to the predictions of experts, the news traffic on the web will consist a lot more of videos and audio, which only will keep progressively outnumbering texts. But these would be short videos made with certain originality and creativity, … Continue reading News to be “seen” and “heard”
New formats, new narratives
Podcasts and storytellings have become two essential pillars for digital journalism, opening the way for the presentation of the news at a time when audiences choose to "see" and "hear" stories, rather than undergo an extensive reading session. Podcasts are stories told orally, preferably supported by sounds that allow the listener to form a better … Continue reading New formats, new narratives
The mobile, another tectonic change for digital journalism
Mario Garcia is one of the most authorized “gurus” of the graphic design field of the newspapers, with more than 700 designs he has made for some newspapers throughout his artistic and journalistic career. Now he's driving a change of helm for digital journalism; his slogan is: "let's stop thinking on paper... to think on … Continue reading The mobile, another tectonic change for digital journalism
