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Does the new Republic betray or innovate journalism?

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Does the new Republic betray or innovate journalism?

With its in-depth analysis of betrayals, the newspaper Repubblica innovates journalism by recovering the great tradition of the heartfelt posts. An opportunity for everyone? Francis Walsingham's letter

Dear director,

I keep saying you insist on doing your job like a dinosaur. Even I, who am no longer very young, know that the world is changing, that we read fewer and fewer newspapers, that people get their information on Instagram (I now notice that more and more pages on sexual education, eating disorders and psychological disorders are flourishing on the part of of self-styled beardless experts poor in experience but generous with good advice) when not on TikTok.

Director, give up, because if you don't get scrapped by a 16 year old TikToker who today talks to his sixteen million followers about the consequences of the Iranian attack on Israel and tomorrow about how to make an ointment against pimples at home you will still be benched by ChatGpt, who may not work better than you (I always enjoy reading the blunders he makes and which it is no coincidence that you in the press report in great detail), but he will certainly work more than you, without demanding holidays, lunch breaks or, who knows, to sleep.

Your colleagues at Repubblica have already sensed these risks for some time. And while on Startmag I still read investigations and previews on Tim, on Enel's moves and on the sale of Ita Airways, they restore luster to the old classic heart stakes of women's magazines of the last century. Except that rightly in times of gender fluidity they are no longer contained within the confines of the feminine and in the era of the web, where you click and have all the porn you want, they no longer limit themselves to winking without daring, but they go all the way and get off in details.

Keep your victory over of her , but this is the journalism of tomorrow.

Of course, as usual you journalists demonstrate that you don't understand a thing about youngsters and instead of focusing, perhaps, on the new frontiers of virtual fetish, on sexting (it seems that among the new generations laziness is so high that they have sex in chat, without no longer leave the house to see each other) and on sex in the metaverse, rubbing joysticks and licking virtual viewers, to grab a bit of an audience, bet on the photo of a guy who looks like my grandfather and talks about problems of old age…

But I appreciate the effort. An effort that is structured into a real column, not the classic impromptu letter to be published perhaps in the middle of summer as a filler. In fact, in Repubblica I read this "call to action" as young people would say: "If you want to tell your story to be published, subject to evaluation by the editorial team, you can write to mai at [email protected]".

Yes, that's right: all true.

There's even a mailbox.

I'll forget that I discovered it by clicking on another article which obviously doesn't speak to young people ( Daniela: “I'm my boss's lover. But I discovered I'm not the only one ” ) given that those are now either unemployed or have left VAT in perpetual smart working that they have never even seen an office, but I want to focus on one fact: this is the only way to move forward.

Director, once upon a time there was the housewife from Voghera who, while she was ironing, dreamed of tons of money watching Dallas and Dynasty and was disturbed by the betrayals of Sentieri and The Beautiful . Without naming names, there are those who – good soul – have founded a commercial-media and even political empire on the power of soaps.

Today the housewife from Voghera 2.0 browses the web between one errand and another but she has certainly not forgotten ancient passions. Do you want to survive the ongoing transformation? Give me a nice [email protected], where someone writes and you, instead of giving him the press review, read the future in the cards. Or a [email protected] where you collect the stories and opinions of users and perhaps offer them your reviews on the hi-tech devices not to be missed for their enjoyment. And why not a [email protected] that finally thinks of the younger ones: a nice guide to safe virtual sex with advice on the best antiviruses to avoid infecting PCs, just in case?

Or why not a [email protected] where advice on alternative investments is given, which pairs with [email protected] (no matter what the government says, we don't live on BTP Valore alone) and [email protected] for those Do you want to venture into the digital artwork market?

If you gave your readers the opportunity to interact more with your editorial staff, I would more than willingly participate. But as you know, I've never had too many problems writing you, already dozens and dozens of emails a week. Also to thank you for your attention, I suggest you follow Molinari's moves: he certainly understood everything, he certainly knows how to do journalism in 2024 (I also demonstrated it to you yesterday in this letter dedicated to the new Business course & Finance ).

And look how happy the publisher is: Gedi, more 50% of digital subscribers. Independent journalism is a value , I read in… Repubblica (yes, perhaps this self-inflation is not the best, I admit it). The strategy of winking at new users apparently pays off!

Your

Francis Walsingham

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/repubblica-rubrica-tradimenti/ on Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:37:02 +0000.