Miguel Franjul
After serving as the cornerstone of journalistic writing, the so-called "inverted pyramid", which has been the writing pattern of newspapers, is in the doldrums. Until recently, it prevailed as the predominant structure in newspaper news, just as it had been for dozens of years, its parameter par excellence. Its principle is simple: the information is … Continue reading The pyramid is falling!
The greatest loss that a democracy could suffer is that which derives from the loss of freedom of expression. Democracy and freedom are consubstantial values. Neither can exist authentically if the other is missing. Democracy is lost when dictatorship replaces it. And the second, freedom of expression, when it is suffocated by the silence of … Continue reading “Freedom is the mother of our democracy”
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”
The journalistic instinct is the hunch that often makes a newspaper editor suddenly change the hierarchy of a story that was scheduled as the main front page story. It is a quality that is not taught in communication schools, but that emerges in reporters or directors in the last moments of making decisions about the … Continue reading The journalistic instinct
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”?
Before, when there was no internet or Sunday editions, the Monday newspaper was the most searched of the week. What was the reason? The list of National Lottery prizes, whose draws were held on Sundays, capturing the attention of thousands of players who had bought tickets and pools in pursuit of fortune. A shrewd printing … Continue reading Monday´s Newspaper
The movement of emblematic magazines from the print platform to the digital format is another eloquent indicator that confirms the inevitable course facing paper media in the new informationecosystem. In fact, the most recent measurements of print and digital media readership in the world reinforce this trend towards transformation, due to the growing audience of … Continue reading The inevitable course of print media
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
A few years ago, the closure times of our newspapers was a litmus test for editors, printing and circulation staff. There was a fatal deadline that, if not met, could reduce the sales of the newspapers on the street or upset the customers because the usual was to read them very early. An ideal closure … Continue reading Stress free closure times
The dissemination of news in a newsroom that has merged its print and digital platforms has, until now, followed the classic pattern of two different rhythms in terms of time. One for the latest news (in digital), and another for the contextualization and deepening of the facts in the paper format of the day after, … Continue reading Another step forward in convergence
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