Miguel Franjul
"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
Forced by lockdowns during the first year of the Covid pandemic, many print newspapers suffered subscriber churn or abandonment of street shoppers. Others definitively lost a large share of their traditional customers by suppressing the print editions and converting them to digital, the format to which news consumers turned en masse. The digital "boom" in … Continue reading Reconnecting with readers
Ten months of struggle through the Covid pandemic have undoubtedly created a new school of modern journalism in which human stories become the center and object of information, rather than outright declarations. Readers and users of both information and specialized contents, today, make up the right audience that can trace all routes of information by … Continue reading 184 headings and 160 articles just about Covid
As we lean towards a journalism of digital platforms, the Listin Diario is determined on climbing new steps in the quality of content of its print edition, under the motto of "making the difference, every day." Making the difference involves a job similar to that of carving a diamond. In our case, it's all about … Continue reading The “table of depth”
We knew that we were on the verge of some dramatic and challenging changes in the process of uniting our printed platform with its website Listindiario.com, following the universal trend and vogue that leads to multimedia. We needn't rush anything, but assemble the pieces of this unification on a new gear that was not just … Continue reading This change came suddenly… but we assume it
A real journalist has two innate values: courage to denounce any abusive power and the lack of fear to any dangers, whatever they might be. During the Covid-19 pandemic, for example, reporters were on deserted streets, in hospital wards, or within human crowds looking for news, at all risks. In different cities of Latin America, … Continue reading With an open heart
Bit by bit, the novel coronavirus has also been suffocating the press in those parts of the world struck down by its intimidating force. As much as they struggle to break through with up-to-date news and reliable guidance for this stage, printed media face a real risk of extinction almost everywhere in the world. Many … Continue reading The coronavirus also wants to kill the press
"Printed newspapers should die by 2005, at most" was being the bleak sentence decreed ten years before such year came, based on the irruption of the Internet. The paper was supposed to lead its inevitable burial. Back then, I remember how these were the actual disturbing omens that aired to proclaim a pessimistic future for … Continue reading And the newspapers didn’t die…
Analysis, contextualization and explanations are three basic elements within the package of new content with which the printed newspapers lead their redefinition process, trying to mark a differentiated line against the digital offers. These three elements may be perceived in a work of value, such as essays, opinion notes and researches focused on one or … Continue reading What printed media should bring
At the speed that innovations that transform the digital platform are all taking off, there simply can't be any comfort zones in the integrated newsrooms anymore, just like it happened at the times when we only produced our printed editions. Back then, our routines did manage to change radically, as is the case now, since … Continue reading No longer are there any comfort zones in the newsrooms
