(clic -> amplia mucho)
Así serás las páginas de los diarios (no las web). La encontré gracias a Visual Loop, sitio que acabo de descubrir. En breve, más.
Un quiosco cualquiera, de sur a norte… |
y otro… cincuenta metros más adelante. |
In Gilbert’s theory of media evolution, the Deseret News print product is the crocodile, a prehistoric creature that survives today, albeit as a smaller animal. He believes the News, which has already shrunk significantly, is not doomed to extinction if properly managed. Deseret Digital Media is the mammal, the new life form designed to dominate the future. Armed with graphics, charts and a whiteboard that looks like it belongs in an advanced physics class, Gilbert speaks with the zeal of the cultural transition evangelist he has become. He argues that the path ahead does not involve merging the crocodile and mammal cultures, but maintaining them separately.Aquí tiene la presentación de Gilbert en la Nieman Foundation (Harvard):
At Gannett newspapers, hreader metrics will drive coverage and journalists will work with dashboards of data to guide reporting. After years of layoffs, many staff members were immediately told that they had to reapply for jobs when the split was announced. In an attempt to put some lipstick on an ugly pivot, Stefanie Murray, executive editor of The Tennessean, promised readers “an ambitious project to create the newsroom of the future, right here in Nashville. We are testing an exciting new structure that is geared toward building a dynamic, responsive newsroom.”
The Nashville Scene noted that readers had to wait only one day to find out what the news of the future looks like: a Page 1 article in The Tennessean about Kroger, a grocery store and a major advertiser, lowering its prices.
If this is the future — attention news shoppers, Hormel Chili is on sale in Aisle 5 — what is underway may be a kind of mercy killing.
So whose fault is it? No one’s. Nothing is wrong in a fundamental sense: A free-market economy is moving to reallocate capital to its more productive uses, which happens all the time. Ask Kodak. Or Blockbuster. Or the makers of personal computers. Just because the product being manufactured is news in print does not make it sacrosanct or immune to the natural order.
It’s a measure of the basic problem that many people haven’t cared or noticed as their hometown newspapers have reduced staffing, days of circulation, delivery and coverage.
Will they notice or care when those newspapers go away altogether? I’m not optimistic about that.
El “diario” para smartphone requiere nuevas habilidades en las redacciones, que ya no son las “habilidades multimedia”. El nuevo medio requiere nuevos periodistas que sepan captar las tendencias, recortarlas y mostrarlas para aquellos que necesitan estar al tanto sin tener que bucear por ellos mismos. Los nuevos medios deben mezclar la información dura con el entretenimiento, no para competir con las redes sociales sino para servir al cliente que en ciertos momentos del día va al móvil a buscar un lapso de la actualidad en el cual “estuvo ausente”. Así es que quiere saber a cuánto se fue el dólar, qué influyente murió, pero también cuál es el video del cual habla todo el mundo… en este mismo momento.
A few years ago, Jonathan Stray argued that “journalism has no theory of change.” He wrote, “I’ve taken to asking editors, ‘what do you want your work to change in society?’ The answer is generally along the lines of, ‘we aren’t here to change things. We are only here to publish information.’” But Stray doesn’t accept that answer, arguing, “Journalism without effect does not deserve the special place in democracy that it tries to claim.”Hace algunos posts agradecía a internet haber diferenciado la información del periodismo: una dice lo que pasa en el mundo y el otro cambia lo que pasa en el mundo. Y hace un ratito nada más explicaba en una reunión que periodismo es información con intención. Ahora empiezo a leer a Stray...