Miguel Franjul
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
Before the pandemic, smartphones had already emerged as the most widely used electronic devices for the look-out of news. That preeminence is now much greater. So much so that it has given way to new formats of telling stories or handing news, taking into account not only the narrow space of those screens, but the … Continue reading Journalism on mobile
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
The digital future is already a reality of the present. Traditional press was never oblivious to this perspective. The emergence of such ecosystem of information glimpsed upon us gently and, to a large extent, we were preparing for the upcoming connection. Integrated newsrooms or multimedia models were the first signs that the digital route was … Continue reading The “digital future” is now
As difficult or intricate this general phenomenon may seem, just like any catastrophe of mother nature, a war or a broad collapse of communications, journalism always finds its way to fulfill its sacred duty of reporting the truth of what's happening. As these disruptive phenomena of life unfold, personnel of the press appeal to the … Continue reading Journalism under quarantine
Among the transformations that traditional newspapers undergo to tune in with the preferences of emerging audiences lays the tendency of merging any outstanding content into the digital, supported by a diversity of formats that modern technologies allow us. One of these changes consists in converting everything to the digital or an intermediate or transitional step, … Continue reading Sunday’s lecture, another added value of the LISTIN DIARIO
With the arsenal of new communication technologies, digital users are now inclined to the formats that tell the story of an episode, its background and impacts, just as podcasts and storytellings do with increasing success. It's not surprise that under the influence of Spotify and Netflix, the bulk of digital users show preferences for these … Continue reading The news: more than spreading them, to tell them
Our great mass of readers has been very interested, these days, on digital media to find out about all the novelties and updates that revolve around the Dominican youth at the flag's plaza. Exact or inaccurate, the news flow and arouse feverish states of excitement among those who read them, inducing towards either the acceptance … Continue reading Immediacy vs. relevance
