Reset

In 1995 the internet reached the newsrooms of newspapers around the world. What seemed to be an extraordinary revolution turned into a problem of technical and professional fit that broke all the schemes with which newsrooms had operated for the last hundred years. This process, which is simultaneously a technological, social, cultural and human transformation, and which is still full of unknowns and uncertainties, offers, at the same time, numerous opportunities for innovation and improvement of traditional journalistic practices and can help, without doubt, to promote and deepen the essential values ??of journalism. But the arrival of the internet coincided with the scourge of several economic crises, the free internet, strong political interference, the lack of reporting, the drop in advertising and readers, the immediacy of social networks... These factors complicated the process of the big newspapers and stopped it. And if all this was not enough, the Covid-19 pandemic ended up tearing the sector apart, in which many media were not yet ready for final digitization. In RESET, the directors of global newspapers such as Clarín, El País, El Tiempo de Bogotá, the Jerusalem Post and La Vanguardia speak on this subject; the CEO of McClatchy (Miami Herald) and representatives of The New York Times, The Guardian, the Neuer Zürcher Zeitung, El Comercio de Lima and the prestigious Asahi Shimbun. It also includes the opinion of some of the best digital analysts in the world such as Nic Newman, from the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford. It is the opinion and experience of all of them that allows the author to draw up a series of recommendations that, without a doubt, should help to make a RESET to speed up the definitive digitization of newspapers and embrace the new communicative world. Once and for all.