Miguel Franjul
After serving as the cornerstone of journalistic writing, the so-called "inverted pyramid", which has been the writing pattern of newspapers, is in the doldrums. Until recently, it prevailed as the predominant structure in newspaper news, just as it had been for dozens of years, its parameter par excellence. Its principle is simple: the information is … Continue reading The pyramid is falling!
Today's is called the “Hearing Age” because most of those who seek information and stories of interest prefer to listen to them, rather than read them. That explains the surprising boom in news and other vocalized content, as well as audiobooks. And, likewise, the "podcast" or audio formats that synthesize news stories set with effects … Continue reading The “Hearing Age”
Defining what was news and its hierarchical order in the page layout of a newspaper was, for many years, a task of the full editors. As if it were a collegiate court that agrees on a verdict, the full editors decided on their own whether or not it was important to publish. That has its … Continue reading Now, what is “news”?
Before, when there was no internet or Sunday editions, the Monday newspaper was the most searched of the week. What was the reason? The list of National Lottery prizes, whose draws were held on Sundays, capturing the attention of thousands of players who had bought tickets and pools in pursuit of fortune. A shrewd printing … Continue reading Monday´s Newspaper
With the worsening of the pandemic, newsrooms have returned to teleworking, a modality with which they had already become familiar. It is like stepping back on a terrain in which the dynamics of a new way of practicing journalism took root, never completely eliminated. The first experiences we lived in March 2020 created the conditions … Continue reading Stepping on familiar ground once again
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
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
The practice of translating news into several languages has been one of the strong points in the versatility of international news agencies. As their clientele is worldwide, they strive to maintain correspondence posts in different regions of the planet, serving them in their own language, which allows them to prepare multilingual packages with summaries of … Continue reading Multilingual news
To the extent that audiences prefer audiovisual news, the journalist gets out of the old schemes that kept him practically anonymous sooner. When the printed newspapers monopolized the dissemination of news processed with high professional sense, the author's signature became an identity stamp and depending on the frequency, importance or hierarchical importance that their news … Continue reading More tangible, and less anonymous
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