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The following reflection is the result of recent research, through which the transition from the sound archive to the digital multimedia archive is observed as a contemporary phenomenon that is placed in the digital ecosystem. The article is introduced with the etymological origin and evolution of the notion of archive. The evolution of this term as a result of the technological evolution of the last century is presented and its relationship with the emergence and evolution of sound archives is presented. The conceptual differences between the notions of library and digital archive are then established. It analyses the changes to which the sound archive has been subjected in recent decades and how they have impacted on the notion of the document and the transition from digital sound archiving to multimedia

The paper proposes an evaluation of the impact of paywalls on information. A new media model based on digital platforms and paywalls is the theoretical basis. A literature review shows that currently many newspapers operate some kind of paywalls; however, the choice of free and/or paywalled content is not obvious. We study the cases of three Swiss newspapers and three French newspapers. The types of paywalls and the subscription prices are described. Data concerning free and paid articles are analysed for some main sections. Results show differentiation between free and paid articles concerning the authors and the types of articles. Different strategies appear, particularly at the level of different sections of a newspaper. Finally, we discuss the idea of a kind of “Gresham’s law” of information.

Introduction: Newsletters or electronic bulletins are currently a product of growing importance in digital media and represent a channel that is highly conducive to the curation of content, which is one of the services that is considered to be most relevant in 21st-century digital journalism. The main goal of this work is to analyze the use of journalistic content curation in newsletters emitted by the Spanish press. Methodology: To achieve this goal, a study using an evaluative methodology has been carried out, based on an analysis system composed of parameters and indicators organized around two major areas or dimensions: Content and Curation. All the newsletters (84) from 16 relevant Spanish newspapers, both traditional and native digital, have been analyzed for two months. Results: The results provide a snapshot of the characteristics of journalistic curation in terms of the amount of curated content, its time range and origin, the information sources, the authorship, the curation techniques, and how links are used to provide information. Discussion and conclusions: Based on the results of this analysis, we can depict the typical journalistic bulletin, offer a ranking of the best Spanish newsletters and the media, and propose a conceptualization of content curation, revealing the existence of two types of curation: intellectual and automated.

Content curation and open sources of information are two aspects that can be joined to serve quality journalism. Open sources can be one of journalists’ main instruments in conjunction with other types of sources, and they have their own advantages and characteristics. For its part, content curation provides a strategic framework for the use of these open sources in an especially efficient manner.

This article presents a method or system for the analysis and evaluation of content curation in digital media. The system is based on two dimensions (Content and Curation) that group a series of parameters and indicators to which a score has been assigned. The following elements are indicated for each parameter: definition, explanation, procedure and examples. The “procedure” element is defended as a methodology to assess the use of content curation on a journalistic website, which includes a list of indicators, and an analysis question and a score for each of them. The “examples” element presents a set of good practices for content curation in digital media.

This paper provides a general review of Catalan periodical literature during the two-year period 2016-2017. The authors present figures and other data on the readership and circulation of daily and non-daily publications in both paper and digital formats. The period in question was characterized by three trends: the ongoing crisis in the printed news media, the rise of the digital news media and the absence of reliable and valid public data on circulation and readership.

The concept of creative industries is now well established in both academic and policy discourse. Historically, it had its roots in the policies of Tony Blair’s “New Labour” governments of the United Kingdom during the late 1990s and 2000s. Its creative industries policies were in turn influenced by culture-led urban renewal strategies in major UK cities such as Manchester, Sheffield and Glasgow, as well as by economically oriented cultural policy strategies such as the Australian government’s 1994 Creative Nation program. In the 2000s, there was a significant process of international diffusion of creative industries policies. Tafel-Viia et. al. identified such policies being developed in 11 leading European cities: Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Birmingham, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius and Warsaw. There have also been important regional and national policies developed in European nations including the UK, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Russia, and creative industries have been at the forefront of the European Union’s Creative Europe strategies as part of the Horizon 2020 program.

We present the main systems to access media content: historical newspaper archives, media archives and press databases, with indicators for evaluation.

Citizen journalism in digital editions, a limited bet. In recent years the digital media have opened their doors to so-called citizen journalism. Nevertheless, far from some declarations that present the reader as another journalist, the reality is very different. This article compares the sections of informative participation in four digital editions of printed newspapers from 2009 to nowadays in order to analyze two aspects: whether the media frankly trust the readers, beyond inviting them to play at being journalists; and what is the reader’s response.

Marco Gambaro is a Professor of Communication and Society at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Milan. He has taught at the University of Trento and at the IULM University and has held courses in Sda Bocconi, Master Publitalia, IBM, Ifor Bocconi, Institute for Journalism Education, Reiss Romoli School. He is the president of the scientific committee of Simmaco, an economic analysis company specializing in media industries. He has worked as a management consultant with leading communication groups, regulators and large Italian and foreign companies on telecommunications, television, advertising, publishing, competition in the communications market, and multimedia convergence. He has published numerous scientific articles in Italian and international journals.

Some authors question the existence of public television companies in the new environment of digitalization, Internet proliferation, growing competition and audience segmentation. However, others believe they should act as a driving force in the process of convergence and even that the new media present an opportunity to redefine the public broadcasting service (PBS) remit. The current challenge for the public media companies is to deliver their content through the maximum number of devices, not only via television sets but also broadband and mobile devices. Over the years, the BBC has adapted to new market situations and has implemented solutions that have been adopted by other public and private broadcasters around the world. The objective of this article is to show how the BBC has taken up the leadership of transforming public TV companies into online services in order to maintain market share; and how it has influenced Spain’s public TV broadcaster, RTVE. The methodology is based on internal and external documents of both corporations, and the findings are complemented by interviews with online service managers at RTVE. We conclude that these public companies have adapted their activities to the new technologies and have developed interactive services to reinforce their public service mission

Design changes in Spanish digital newspapers between May and December 2006 are described and analyzed. Principal changes include: substitution of the vertical navigation bar for a horizontal bar across the top of the page, design for a 1024-pixel resolution, and the uneven gains in reader services participation. A chronology of these changes is included.

Radiography about the situation of digital press in Spain in the beginning of 2006, including the next points: number of digital media, multimedia evolution, media without printed counterparts, participation services, search systems, free versus payment, and distribution with rss. The article includes a discussion in the IweTel list with the participation of Lluís Codina, Jorge Serrano Cobos, Àngels Jiménez and Rosana López Carreño.

Wikipedia: an open encyclopaedia, free and written cooperatively An encyclopaedic collection in itself, public library has always been a place for the consultation of encyclopaedias. Wikipedia is an open encyclopaedia, free and written cooperatively. At first glance, such a project appears truly utopist, even criticisable. Nevertheless, both international and multilingual, it works well and is enjoying rapid growth. It uses Wiki technology and is published under a free documentary licence. Within several years, even months, Wikipedia could have an important place in libraries. French speaking librarians could improve it by contributing to it.

The importance of social networks for mass media professionals, especially for news librarians –whose traditional intermediary role limited their visibility to users– is explained. Examples of documentation centres and news librarians’ profiles in social media like weblogs, Facebook, Twitter or Eskup are offered.

The dissemination of scientific information and its presence in the main media converge on the Internet. Both processes contribute to create the online reputation of an academic institution. This study discusses whether the research competence of a university has an impact on its digital media presence. To answer this question, we measured and compared the research output from nine universities together with news about them retrieved from Google News. The results show that the greater the scientific capacity, the greater the media visibility, therefore resulting in greater impact and standing.

With electronic technology, writing, reading, interaction and communication between different actors, teachers, students, readers and writers has changed. The reversal of roles, or the overturning of the same prospects of read-write, to date require further investigation and research into the changes themselves learning. Education can not be separated, in the twenty-first century, by knowing and mastering electronic technology, with the aim of producing increased learning and even encouraged by the use of tools typical of everyday life. During the themes developing of re-mediation, the text layout and organization and location of the same phrases and words within a blank page or a spreadsheet, it offers an in-depth research on the issues outstanding, as proposed by Bolter, McLuhan, Dewey.