
Autor: Gustavo Gorriti
Fecha de publicación: December 2017
Formato de publicación: pdf 26,8 x 21 cm
Resumen
There is in the United States a publication with an ominous masthead and an intriguing motto. The first is ‘Newspaper Death Watch’, the second: ‘Chronicling the Decline of Newspapers and the Rebirth of Journalism.’
I belong to a generation of journalists that has lived through this truly existential era. As a Latin American baby boomer I well remember the epic deadlines at neurotic newsrooms, with the frenzied clatter of typewriters expressing the intensity of collective thinking, especially when game-changing scoops were in the works.