Miguel Franjul
In these times when news, pure and simple, is not the basic input of newspapers, useful content is their survival weapon. The realm of current news, with its timely updates, belongs to digital media. Prints are favored by betting on a slow journalism that facilitates the exploration and deepening of the issues that most interest … Continue reading Towards a useful journalism
A good staff of analysts, simpler and more understandable narratives, and a careful selection of reader "targets" are today the basis of the recovery process of the world's large print headlines. As a result of this injection of quality and depth into their content, the main print newspapers are recovering ground lost during the pandemic. … Continue reading The newspapers take flight
In a world of abbreviated communications and miniaturized technologies, the basic tools of journalistic writing also had to submit to a dictatorship of concise summaries. I mean, to adapt to the conditions that force the use of short or concise texts that synthesize the most important elements of a news item, instead of accessories. This … Continue reading The dictatorship of summary
Little by little a very special elite is growing: that of those readers who look for true and reliable news on the exclusive pay sites of digital newspapers. As elite readers there will also remain, in the future, those who maintain their subscriptions with traditional print newspapers that are already refining their content to focus … Continue reading A journalism for the elites
"We are in a disastrous spiral." That's how Pat Henderson described it, and he had no shortage of reasons for his bitterness. The executive of Quad/Graphic, one of the North American companies dedicated to the printing and publishing business, put his finger on the sore of a problem that is getting worse every day. That … Continue reading The oxygen that’s running out
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