Miguel Franjul
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 avant-garde newspaper designer, Mario García, is fascinated by transformative bets and now he comes up with another magnificent audacity: diagramming newspapers with the visual concepts of mobile phones. "It is fascinating to be fluctuating from mobile to print journalism almost simultaneously", migrating the characteristics of the digital format to the covers and some inside … Continue reading Printed with digital skin
It may seem curious, but the great thrust of digital adaptation has been the work of the oldest headlines of the traditional press. Several of them, with more than a hundred years of journalism, are today successful models of digital journalism and, to a large extent, great beneficiaries of the monetization of their content and … Continue reading Aging journalists at the forefront
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
The pandemic suddenly transformed the newsrooms of traditional newspapers, giving way to a hybrid model in which the digital modus operandi is imposed as the key engine of its structure. There are many indications of that change. For example, the ways of planning and executing news searches and, later, of prioritizing and deciding their staging … Continue reading The hybrid newsroom
To survive in the new communications ecosystem, print newspapers have to learn to swim against the tide of the technological forces that drive the success of digital journalism. Their challenge, now, is to resist two dynamic lines of the digital world: the immediacy of information and the dissemination of false or manipulated news, and compete … Continue reading The “industrialization” of the news input
Since journalists stopped being simple transmitters of news and have become associated with them, the bridges that communicate the medium with its users have opened new ways of communication. To some extent, journalists have had to stop being behind the scenes and become visible to the public to whom they provide the results of their … Continue reading The newer bridges of journalism
Although audiovisual formats are the most consumed in digital journalism, it is audio, in these times, the one that is best positioned for its monetization. The latest studies that have been done on the formidable increase in audio content in the world (around 17 thousand podcasts per day) is whetting the appetite of digital media. … Continue reading The great trend of audio content
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
