Miguel Franjul
Listindiario.com has once again broken audience record in 2020, a year in which, like never before, the digital channel became the main source of news consumption. After a sustained average rate of 18 million visits each month to our digital pages, being the highest in March with 24,601,408, the sum of access as of December … Continue reading 203 million visits in 2020
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
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
In the early 1970s, the Listin hired a consultant from The New York Times to teach us how to close the one-day edition on time so that we could circulate at the streets earlier than the competition. By then, the company used to close at midnight, and we wanted to follow the NYT model, even … Continue reading The strange magic of publishing the newspapers
In the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, where the first effect has been the forced confinement of millions of citizens, the traditional printed press has barely survived on paid subscriptions and decimated advertising revenues. In three months of total or partial quarantines that have led to the ruin or severe state of collapse of the … Continue reading The press reborn from silence
Among the transformations that traditional newspapers undergo to tune in with the preferences of emerging audiences lays the tendency of merging any outstanding content into the digital, supported by a diversity of formats that modern technologies allow us. One of these changes consists in converting everything to the digital or an intermediate or transitional step, … Continue reading Sunday’s lecture, another added value of the LISTIN DIARIO
This March 11th, the Listin Diario celebrates its first anniversary of undergoing a radical transformative process with aims to adapt to the new journalistic models imposed by the era of multiplatformed media. We reduced our standard paper size to a comfortable tabloid prototype, not to meet a simple cosmetic and superficial overhaul but as the … Continue reading One year after the transformations
2019 has been quite challenging for the Listin Diario. The events that took place during the year have marked a new precedent in the country, especially in political matters (a pre-election year with primary elections); also in justice matters, specifically about drug-trafficking issues. On the digital platform, we've focused on keeping every event updated on … Continue reading Our digital achievements in 2019
These reflections have just marked their second anniversary of weekly releases, the same amount of time since the merge of the printed and digital platforms of the LISTIN DIARIO. With such reflections, I've really been trying to explain, step by step, the reasons and the scope of this transformation. On June 9th of 2017, this … Continue reading Two years of good articles
Every morning, as an inviolable ritual, the editorial meeting of the Listin Diario begins with a look at the metrics that reveal which news are read the most, in hierarchical order, on both our printed and digital platforms. To the surprise of those who have chosen the front-page news a day before, on the assumption … Continue reading What most do not read
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