Diametrically different from the traditional ones, today's newsrooms are more technological and more focused on the production of audiovisual content. In the new paradigm of communication, digital journalism flaps its wings with force to reach larger audiences equipped with electronic devices through which they connect, inform themselves and interact with the sites or networks that … Continue reading Towards technological newsrooms
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The platforms are remodeled
Instagram, like other major social media platforms, has entered the whirlwind of changes to give the video format the predominance it has acquired today among digital content consumers. As expected, this emphasis on the audiovisual more than on photographs has generated early and emotional reactions from its users, who have understood it as an effort … Continue reading The platforms are remodeled
The pitfalls of multimedia convergence
Uniting two formats, print and digital in the same newsroom, is the pinnacle of the so-called multimedia convergence, the most complete expression of the new communications ecosystem. Technologically speaking, multimedia is crystallized by uniting the resources of each medium (text, graphics, audio and video) through the facilities that allow different applications on the web. But … Continue reading The pitfalls of multimedia convergence
The different “vessels” of the news
Today's journalism cannot be conceived without news multiformat. The news, unlike years ago, does not die as fast as before. Or rather, it does not lose its relevance from one day to the next; it mutates like viruses, always circulating in different ways to survive and go further. News in text format evolves towards other … Continue reading The different “vessels” of the news
Journalism in YouTube code
With the formidable audience of “millennials” and “centennials” devouring audiovisual information, today's journalism directs the prow of its narratives towards really compatible ways of communicating facts, taking into account these preferences. Social media platforms, but especially YouTube, have paved the way for the experimentation of interactive and dynamic audio and video products in digital newspapers, … Continue reading Journalism in YouTube code
The text, under the decisive war for survival
Back when there wasn't much profusion of videos, just TV, the big job of describing realities through newspapers actually rendered journalists with no other option than display their uttermost skills on graphing things out through the written word. Non-fiction literature exponents, excellent chronicles and outstanding reports, were what contributed to the transmitting of specific details … Continue reading The text, under the decisive war for survival
A great challenge for the written press
Every day, video and audio formats become stronger supports for human communications and their learning. News in such formats outweigh, in preference, the text. The optimal language lays on the visualization of images and listening to vocalized content. The newer generations, who've been educated with more established learning models in these two formats, prefer to … Continue reading A great challenge for the written press
The priorities have changed from the paper to the digital scheme
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
News to be “seen” and “heard”
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”
New formats, new narratives
Podcasts and storytellings have become two essential pillars for digital journalism, opening the way for the presentation of the news at a time when audiences choose to "see" and "hear" stories, rather than undergo an extensive reading session. Podcasts are stories told orally, preferably supported by sounds that allow the listener to form a better … Continue reading New formats, new narratives