Miguel Franjul
Today's is called the “Hearing Age” because most of those who seek information and stories of interest prefer to listen to them, rather than read them. That explains the surprising boom in news and other vocalized content, as well as audiobooks. And, likewise, the "podcast" or audio formats that synthesize news stories set with effects … Continue reading The “Hearing Age”
Defining what was news and its hierarchical order in the page layout of a newspaper was, for many years, a task of the full editors. As if it were a collegiate court that agrees on a verdict, the full editors decided on their own whether or not it was important to publish. That has its … Continue reading Now, what is “news”?
Diametrically different from the traditional ones, today's newsrooms are more technological and more focused on the production of audiovisual content. In the new paradigm of communication, digital journalism flaps its wings with force to reach larger audiences equipped with electronic devices through which they connect, inform themselves and interact with the sites or networks that … Continue reading Towards technological newsrooms
Instagram, like other major social media platforms, has entered the whirlwind of changes to give the video format the predominance it has acquired today among digital content consumers. As expected, this emphasis on the audiovisual more than on photographs has generated early and emotional reactions from its users, who have understood it as an effort … Continue reading The platforms are remodeled
Although they converge in the same ecosystem, the parallel exercise of print and digital journalism is one of the best fields of trial and error in the process of true media convergence. Scholars of this phenomenon predict that the metamorphosis will take longer than desired, because the models that work on both platforms differ in … Continue reading The ‘reset’ of Journalism
With the worsening of the pandemic, newsrooms have returned to teleworking, a modality with which they had already become familiar. It is like stepping back on a terrain in which the dynamics of a new way of practicing journalism took root, never completely eliminated. The first experiences we lived in March 2020 created the conditions … Continue reading Stepping on familiar ground once again
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
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
Multimedia is the scenario that is testing the connection of two cultures in journalism: the traditional and the modern or digital. The criteria that dominated the management and structuring of printed newspapers coexist with styles, norms and ways of communicating digital journalism that are often very different from each other. It is not that journalism, … Continue reading Two cultures within journalism
