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Well maybe more than half an hour but still: major panic pants!

Capitalism vs humanity part 3842387943 billion.

What follows is a surprisingly decent translation by Google translator - modified only very slightly by me just so it makes a taaaaaaaaaad more sense. I’ve taken out the descriptions of Javier Moreno as ‘director of the country’, for instance, and replaced them with ‘editor of El País’. Other nonsense I’ve left in, for fun.

I think it’s kinda nice that people still talk about putting their hearts and souls into journalism, defending citizens’ rights, bringing forth the Truth and the like. I just don’t have the drive, talent, thick skin, optimism, faith or resilience needed to be able to join in that particular line of work.

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The editor of El País, Javier Moreno, stressed before the World Editors Forum meeting in Gothenburg (Sweden) the achievements of the redesign launched in the past year - both in the print edition of El País and in ELPAIS.com. “We want to achieve a massive traffic, but also quality,” said Moreno, who explained that the hearing of both formats grows steadily. “According to our latest information, the print edition has 2.3 million readers daily. Of these, about 200,000 also have access to the site of the newspaper, which has between 10 and 11 million unique users per month,” he said. 

Moreno defended a model in which the print edition and the digital share of information, putting the focus on quality journalism, “but under no circumstances do we think the timing, agenda and the cycles of news ELPAIS.com should be dependent upon the printed edition. That we have already learned. ” Also, Moreno stressed that the tools of the web allows readers to receive the news of greatest interest to readers: “Although traffic on the digital edition does not determine the contents of the paper, it provides clues as to what further interest to our readers. They talk. And we hear them. ”

“We have changed the way we do journalism, the way they distribute and, more importantly, how they are perceived both in themselves and `(how they) work together,” said Moreno. “We have managed to develop a joint response to breaking news and the editors of the print edition are starting to equip their daily news with a multimedia approach.”

Moreno also emphasized the social work of the newspapers: “The business in which we are talking about is not just a business. It must be profitable, but we must raise our voice in defense of democratic values and citizens rights to governments and big business. This is something that is in our hearts and souls. That was the way it was 200 years ago and will remain so within 50. In the newspaper print and digital. And that is something that no Google, or whoever comes in the future, will ever do. Only the newspapers. ”

The editor of El País made these statements at a panel discussion in which representatives were also involved in other major international newspapers including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, two newspapers that have opted for a model of full integration of editorial and print digital. Jim Roberts, director of the digital edition of The New York Times, explained that it has been necessary to do so banish some old prejudices in both the digital equipment such as the print edition. Alma Latour, director of digital publishing at The Wall Street Journal, showed some of the first pieces audiovisual developed by the editors of the print edition to explain with a good dose of humor that it is a mutual learning process.

All participants agreed that the Internet represents a radical transformation in the way of exercise of journalism that involves a collaboration between the teams in the print and digital, whatever the future business model for the industry.

(Laffing heartily at any pathetic young adult happy to allow a parent to attend his/her job interview. And yet slightly sad for them at the same time.)

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