Alfonso Suárez is the editor-in-chief of TheObjective, but to get here he has worked for many other newspapers. He has been an intern at Periódico de Huelva, Málaga Hoy, Cadena Ser Málaga and Informativos Telecinco, where he was later hired. In recent years he has worked for VozPópuli and TheObjetive, where he currently works as editor-in-chief. For Alfonso, current affairs is the most important thing.
Today on Daily View, we interview Alfonso Suárez, a journalist who has gradually made his way in journalism and is working in what he has always dreamed of.
Question: Do you think that online journalism has left more traditional media such as newspapers behind?
Answer: You have to consider that all the newspapers that appear in print also have their own online website.
The danger of traditional and print media is exclusives. A journalist runs the risk that if he or she saves the news for the next day in print, it will most likely have already been published in other online media.
I have the feeling that when I read a paper newspaper, I already know the news and have previously read it in online media. Opinion pieces, or more in-depth analysis of a news item, which do not make the front page, are another matter and this maybe works better on traditional media.
The immediacy of online media makes it much easier to publish news as it happens.
The danger of traditional and print media is exclusives.
Q: Do you think online journalism will kill these traditional media in a few years?
A: This is an eternal debate. I think people are going to stop buying it because they are going to get used to consuming journalism and news digitally because access is so easy. Is it going to disappear completely? I don't think so. It will be reduced to a small number of people, and for specific types of news such as opinion, analysis, or book or film reviews.
There are many aspects of journalism that can continue in print, but online journalism is going to kill the traditional press as we know it now.
Q: Do you think it is easier to become a journalist nowadays, or is it more difficult because of this digitalisation?
A: Nowadays I think journalism is much simpler. The generations that have lived with technology since its beginnings, for us it is something very normal to work on a WordPress, or beyond that, in video editing, audio...
I don't know what percentage of students today will end up studying in paper newspapers, but I assure you that it will be very small. I don't think it's worth learning this kind of journalism on paper.
Digital journalism makes the journalist's job easier in every way and makes it simpler.
I don't think it's worth learning this kind of journalism in paper.
Q: What do you think about some online media being paid for, and are you for or against it?
A: I am in favour, but I think that the content that each one sells should be nuanced. That is to say, if I join a newspaper that is totally pay-per-view it seems absurd to me, because nowadays we all know journalism and most of the news is from teletypes that other newspapers are going to have as well.
Exclusive information is another matter. I am in favour of paid media, but only for those where the news is exclusive to the media itself or where they provide more information than other newspapers.
I also think that over the last few years, when the digital press has started to be created, the reader has been miseducated. Because at the beginning all online journalism was free, and little by little some of it has become paid. If this had been controlled from the beginning, there would be no controversy now.
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