Miguel Franjul
In their efforts for survival, the traditional print media have understood now, more clearly than ever, that their future is linked to the good strategies they assume in the digital field. Most of their income comes from their digital platforms, not only because commercial advertising has migrated to them, but also because other ways of … Continue reading Towards all-digital, without fear
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
Like hurricanes, whose speed, intensity and trajectories can be different from those that can be predicted, this is how the changes that are taking place in the new communications ecosystem are similar. The digital went through the same phases: from trough to tropical wave, from this to storm and then to hurricane, with different degrees … Continue reading The digital hurricane
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
In the journalistic tradition, for many years, the so-called "inverted pyramid" served as the essential structure for writing news meant to be published on the newspapers. At present, however, the rigor of this rule or format has become more flexible to allow another model of organization and title of the text since printed newspapers, rather … Continue reading The how and why
In the time of sobriety, traditional newspapers used to use their news headlines as if they were telegraphic messages. They often dispensed with certain prepositions and articles that, in good grammar, would help to weave the correct thread of a sentence. But the practice of communicating with few words and in a space already delimited … Continue reading Even the formats of headlines have changed
