Miguel Franjul
Quality journalism is seeking to recover and mark its fair value, leaving behind the free news models that for many years laid the foundations for the conquest of audiences. They are now considering multiple options to ensure the survival of the written press, battered by a progressive decline in its income that metastasized with the … Continue reading The twilight of gratuity
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
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
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
Shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic, the newsrooms have had to hasten the steps toward the remodeling of their logistical and hierarchical frames for news coverage. There is no predetermined scheme, but one that determines the reality of a market and the ability of the spapers to transform rapidly and survive in the midst of a … Continue reading The newsrooms get remodeled
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
Merging together the newsrooms of the printed and digital newspaper has led to the emergence of new logistics to search, process and disseminate the news on both platforms, taking into account the needs of the digital audience, which is the most exposed one to technological innovations that impact this sphere. The traditional patterns of work … Continue reading The shift of standards
With the predominance that online news have achieved, traditional newsrooms have found themselves changing their schemes in order to function as a structure that serves news on different platforms at the same time, not just printed news, as it was for decades. Now they are configured with the most practical space layout that works on … Continue reading The newsrooms are also transformed (Echoes of SIP-Connect 2019)
Nowadays, there's more thirst for reading than ever before, but the patterns of schedule and manners for this consumption have drastically changed. The so-called "long reading", which characterized the era on which the newspapers controlled the monopoly of information, has transmigrated into a culture of the brief and instantaneous. The studies that usually monitor the … Continue reading The first five lines
