On digital slow journalism in Spanish: An overview of ten media cases from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Spain

Abstract

The journalism of the 21st Century has gone through a serious transformation consistent with the digital ecosystem. With the aim of shedding some light onto the current journalistic panorama, this article tackles questions relating to digital slow journalism in Spanish, mainly centred on the need of these media to reinvent itself and look for new formulas such as innovation and content quality. Our research is based on an international study – Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Spain – using a triangulation and mixed method with exploratory, descriptive and quantitative techniques: consultation of documentary sources, case studies, in-depth interviews, Delphi study (two rounds with 29 international experts) and surveys (a total of 2000 surveys, 500 surveys per country). These techniques were applied to 10 representative digital Media entities within the slow journalism context in four Ibero-American countries: Revista Anfibia (Argentina), La silla vacía (Colombia), Revista Arcadia (Colombia), Jot Down (Spain), Revista 5W (Spain), CTXT (Spain), Yorokobu (Spain), Panenka (Spain), Letras Libres (Mexico), Gatopardo (Mexico). This essay reflects on the content and elaboration of these publications, journalistic genres, the professionals who work on them and the future challenges facing these projects. The reader profiles of these outlets, their knowledge of slow journalism and their consumer habits are also explained.

Estudo Crítico De Fast Immersive Journalism

“…Quality emerges in the Slow Media Manifesto (David et al, 2010) as a sine qua non for publications and works aligned with this approach. Quality is all-encompassing, spanning from content to aesthetic form, fostering an authentic audience relationship and a lasting product (Zabalondo et al, 2021). Mendes and Marinho (2022) further incorporate audience commitment as a defining facet, emphasizing a sincere relationship with citizens and audience participation across various journalistic phases.…”

Slow media, desconexión digital y periodismo reposado. Un balance crítico de la primera década de investigación

“…nenka o La Marea en España, o las muchas revistas de la tradición narrativa latinoamericana como Anfibia, Gatopardo, Etiqueta Negra, El Malpensante o La Silla Vacía (Albalad, 2018;Rosique y Barranquero, 2015;Goikoetxea y Ramírez, 2019;Romero-Rodríguez et al, 2021;Zabalondo et al, 2021). 14 Muchos de los trabajos anteriores problematizan el periodismo lento a partir del análisis comparado de experiencias, pero descuidan el análisis de otros formatos, como los audiovisuales (radio, podcasts, programas televisivos, series, etc.)…”

“…En esta línea, la literatura parece redundar en la dicotomía de unos medios convencionales dirigidos a las "masas", y unas "minorías" que disponen de tiempo, "interés" y, sobre todo, dinero para pagar y procesar los exquisitos productos del periodismo reposado. A esto apuntan, inconscientemente, la mayoría de los estudios exploratorios antes citados (Albalad, 2018;Rosique y Barranquero, 2015;Romero-Rodríguez et al, 2021), e incluso los resultados del primer I+D financiado hasta la fecha (Goikoetxea y Ramírez, 2019;Zabalondo et al, 2021).…”