Teresa Cruvinel "Journalism is not going to succumb to the new technologies"
The Director-President of the State News Agency of Brazil (EBC), Tereza Kruvinel, said today that "despite the introduction of new technologies, journalism is not going to succumb."
In his presentation during the panel "The development and multimedia fluency Editors' the Third World Congress of News Agencies, noted that this meeting" contributes to the increased visibility of the Latin American region. "
"Despite the incorporation of new technologies, journalism is not going to succumb, it will not die," he said, noting the transformation they have achieved in recent years, the news agencies.
Precisó que en la actualidad las agencias producen el 70 por ciento de las noticias que se producen en el mundo", y argumentó que esto responde "a que las agencias se ajustaron a la nueva realidad de los medios".
Consideró que un factor que contribuye a este posicionamiento de las agencias es la producción multimedia incorporada por casi todas las agencias del mundo.
También señaló que "la supervivencia de las agencias es posible por la confiabilidad y credibilidad que garantizan los periodistas en la producción de información" y, al mismo tiempo, "por los ajustes que realizaron las agencias para dejar de ser mayoristas de noticias y producir en forma directa para el consumidor de noticias".
Raised the need to sustain investment in equipment and said resistance to change generated among journalists, even before the labor court actions by the change in working conditions from incorporating technology.
Regarding the role of news agencies and private said "should be complementary, not compete because both help to ensure pluralism of information."
The panel coordinated by Alex Grijelmo, president of the Agencia EFE of Spain, was attended by Michael Lang, managing editor of the Austrian news agency, Austrian Press Agency and Ramon Salaverria, professor at the University of Navarra, Spain.