Innovación y periodismo

This text brings together different interpretations of the current practice of journalism in Colombia, which is facing new professional challenges due to the sociopolitical changes taking place in a country that must learn to narrate its own current history beyond the internal conflict, and to substantial progress in communications and information technology. These technological advances impose new dynamics that directly impact how journalism conceives of and recognizes itself as a content producer and a change agent in the context of the many processes that contribute to public opinion. Without a doubt, technological innovation will mean changes in how events are represented. It will be difficult to build sustainability into the communications and information media in a highly competitive context that will present new opportunities for media ventures and professional practices requiring significant technological inputs to produce improved information products.

Journalism will be able to benefit substantially from these factors while continuing to do what it does on a daily basis: make sense of the present. And that’s what this text does, as well in presenting various proposals and describing the most important changes that will be faced by those who work in editing rooms, the journalists who will be in an excellent position to take advantage of each of them.