Miguel Franjul
Connecting traditional journalism with modern journalism is one of the most difficult stages in the transition to the new communication ecosystem. It is not enough to adapt technologies that facilitate the dissemination of information on digital platforms, but to adapt the mentality of those who will be responsible for handling them properly. Despite the strong … Continue reading Reinventing the journalist
The press rooms were the real “sancta santorum” of a newspaper, a vast and imposing space in which large machines linked in a chain, at a frenetic pace, printed cut and formatted the paper editions of the traditional newspapers. The operators, clad in special suits and with noise-resistant ear protectors, moved between inks, metal plates … Continue reading The silence of the press
In an era in which technological applications are the ones that determine the new profiles of digital journalism, the written press only has conceptual weapons left to continue fighting for its physical presence. Due to the nature of its format, which is determined by size, pages and content limited to non-animated texts and graphics, the … Continue reading The new battles of the written press
The practice of translating news into several languages has been one of the strong points in the versatility of international news agencies. As their clientele is worldwide, they strive to maintain correspondence posts in different regions of the planet, serving them in their own language, which allows them to prepare multilingual packages with summaries of … Continue reading Multilingual news
To the extent that audiences prefer audiovisual news, the journalist gets out of the old schemes that kept him practically anonymous sooner. When the printed newspapers monopolized the dissemination of news processed with high professional sense, the author's signature became an identity stamp and depending on the frequency, importance or hierarchical importance that their news … Continue reading More tangible, and less anonymous
The exercise of a journalism based on kinship to the audience is no longer allowed, different from the times in which news broadcasters were enough to inform but not interact or dialogue with the public. Now opportunities are opening for the journalist to become more visible, less anonymous, before those who read, listen or watch … Continue reading Journalism of kinship
Now forced, due to the corona virus pandemic, to grapple through two challenges - the mass of audiences and the quality of contents - the press is seeking extra journalistic reinforcements to survive. Journalism faculties, natural sources of the human team that feed the printed and digital media, haven't had time to train professionals that … Continue reading The new reinforcements the press needs
Before the pandemic, smartphones had already emerged as the most widely used electronic devices for the look-out of news. That preeminence is now much greater. So much so that it has given way to new formats of telling stories or handing news, taking into account not only the narrow space of those screens, but the … Continue reading Journalism on mobile
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
The digital future is already a reality of the present. Traditional press was never oblivious to this perspective. The emergence of such ecosystem of information glimpsed upon us gently and, to a large extent, we were preparing for the upcoming connection. Integrated newsrooms or multimedia models were the first signs that the digital route was … Continue reading The “digital future” is now
