Miguel Franjul
When smartphones became the all-rounder of communications, the camera industry paled and it looked like it was already being left stranded at the museum of pre-modern relics. Smart phones, with their respective integrated cameras that are every time more meant to replace traditional models that have existed since their invention back in 1816, jeopardized the … Continue reading Changing shapes, not the background
It's undeniable that the readership of the printed newspapers is declining progressively while the digital platforms absorb the largest number of users who want to learn about the everyday news and their evolution throughout the day. This phenomenon is the biggest challenge that newspapers companies face today, which have forced the inevitable swift of the … Continue reading The priorities have changed from the paper to the digital scheme
The success of podcasts, a format that allows audiences to listen to news content at any time and place through smartphones, is inspiring the growing trend of founding digital newspapers based on the audio resource. We already know about the bold and innovative commitment that the Danish magazine "Zetland" has made by converting all its … Continue reading Another dish to “hook” the audiences
At the rate of the changes that impact digital journalism, in less than two years, according to the predictions of experts, the news traffic on the web will consist a lot more of videos and audio, which only will keep progressively outnumbering texts. But these would be short videos made with certain originality and creativity, … Continue reading News to be “seen” and “heard”
Mario Garcia is one of the most authorized “gurus” of the graphic design field of the newspapers, with more than 700 designs he has made for some newspapers throughout his artistic and journalistic career. Now he's driving a change of helm for digital journalism; his slogan is: "let's stop thinking on paper... to think on … Continue reading The mobile, another tectonic change for digital journalism
Back when the printed newspapers were a medium that only offered news content by using text and photos, the newsroom had a vertical layout that was stratified according to the number of independent or shared sections that were needed. Such line of command that executed the orders of the editor, under a scheme in which … Continue reading The “control tower” of the newsroom
Readers of yesteryear were the ones that would actually look forward to getting a copy of the daily newspapers in their hands, sometimes having to go outside and reaching out to the stalls, acquiring them from vendors or waiting with eagerness on that delivery man that would leave some at their doors. During that time, … Continue reading Hunting for readers
Modern technology, but especially that of the cellphones, has led to the fastest reaching of the newspapers to the palms of society. The cellphones of this time are not just instruments for voice transmission, but a point of access to the entire Internet, including the news. This process is called the "netization" of mobile phones … Continue reading Journalism in the virtual world
The greatest providers of the digital ecosystem, Google, Facebook and Twitter, have begun to execute their tourniquets to contain the haemorrhage of manipulated or fake news that sneak into social media and that opened the doors to the post-truth era. Twitter has just dictated a new regulation to prevent the airing of the same message … Continue reading The cleaning of the digital ecosystem
Although we live in a transitioning world of social communications, journalism should always preserve its essence and fundamental aims towards the face of the society it serves. Sure the tools that allow the spreading of the news can be replaced, but not the golden rules that have given journalism its place as "the profession of … Continue reading Journalism first
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