Latin America: Moving towards integration

Posted by Manuel Mantilla on March 20, 2007 at 11:50 AM

The Editor of the Colombian digital Journal El Tiempo, says that 74% of newspapers will integrate their print and web newsrooms in the next few years, according to a study recently released.

The Editor of eltiempo.com made the statement last week at the “Inter American Society of Press” (SIP) meeting in Columbia following a study of the 43 largest newspapers in 18 Latin American countries.

This strategy of integration will allow the expansion of online operations, giving more focus to original reporting, more frequent news updates (24/7) and greater interaction with readers.

Currently, only 4% of newspapers are fully integrated, 50% of web pages include blogs, 42% of the digital versions have between 4 and 8 journalists and only one of them has more than 30 online journalists in the newsroom. 61% of the web sites depend on the information of their press edition and only 27% produce their own information.

Source: eltiempo.com through Innovations in Newspapers

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