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many people do not know what gabo was
journalist he exercised journalism all
his life wanted so much the trade that
called the best trade in the world in
gabriel garcía marquez foundation for
not lose the Latin American where I
I have the joy of working as
Executive Director
we made a book where we gave faith of
this trajectory as a journalist
He practiced the trade since he began his
career began in the
universal in Cartagena in the year 48 and
then he worked in the herald in
canyon work then in the
spectator in bogotá and later it was
working on a project that called
latina press agency in the 70s
was in alternative then in the years
eighty wrote on a regular basis
a column of the country of spain
his passion for journalism way will go
and he exercised it in different conditions
and in different modalities
this is a phrase that appears collected
in his passion for journalism and
way how bermeo journalism its
literary work
I am a journalist fundamentally all
life has been a journalist my books
they are books of journalists that you see
little but those books have a quantity
of investigation and verification of
data and historical rigor of loyalty to
the facts that are basically great
revealed or fantastic reports but
the research and management method
the information and the facts is of
journalist but of all this trajectory
aside what I want you to talk about a
project that he had at the beginning of the
80s and make a newspaper
Gao always dreamed of making a trip
since I started as a reporter said
in an interview with a stubbornness
sickly dreamed of making a
newspaper the newspaper was very
close to being a reality
a man called the other had up
director was going to be darío arizmendi today
famous and renowned radio journalist
Colombian but what I want to talk about today
more than the project itself is of
some reflections choices that I
I feel that this editorial adventure
challenges the journalism we do today
in Colombia in Latin America and for
what not in the boy I always
I asked why Gao wanted to make a
newspaper in the early 80s
in a famous man recognized that this
phrase answers that question
I want to live and where you most live is in
newspaper
his passion for the trade led him
then to think about this project and in
this initiative
I knew very little about this project
until I really gao half after
Dario Arizmendi dies
publishes a book that is called out not
counted and there he dedicates a chapter to
talk about this editorial adventure
there are some teachings
the first of these teachings
just that desire to undertake and to
want to innovate in this case
innovation entrepreneurship go together
one can clearly undertake without innovating
innovate without undertaking but in this case
the desire was to make another period of
name I think that somehow I was already
an allusion to that desire
the editorial project reach greater
they tell me some materials about their
experience you see this is going to be another
journalism still in the photographs
there we see a facsimile and in the
photographs the project said only
will publish photographs that are
really news and will be discarded
known and repeated photos of a
governor swearing in his position
the chancellors greeting each other unless
the governor will surely hand
left or one of the chancellors
some grimace while greeting
the other is to say in the photograph this
Desire is to tell in a different way
and there was another very interesting element
in the photography project said the
reporters
they enter the street with a camera
portable 35 years ago
Gabo already came with this idea of something that
it’s already a practice like the other was not
the first venture that Gao had
kao had 6.6 media throughout
his life and started when he was a gift
nobody is not na believe that it was employment
only when he was already famous and known his
first undertaking made in the year
51
right there in Cartagena with the
linotipist the universal concludes with
who made an evening called
tablet lasted a week his desire to
do another journalism started there and
make media to do journalism
I wanted that that’s what I think
that the desire to seek a
space to do journalism that
I wanted the entrepreneurship interesting
they see it as an alternative and watercress
in the context of the digital environment
today it is much easier to create a medium
before the digital environment facilitates the
creation of means just to give them a
example of colombia to see the
dimension of how it has grown
digital in the research that he did
editorial board in the year 2010
there was in Colombia 391 digital media
two years later there were 745
practically double
has returned to this mapping is not but
I dare to say that there is in Colombia
quietly much more than a thousand media
digital and in a study we found
that there was in Latin America so
minus 500 only digital media
dedicated to journalism
the entrepreneurship
you have to understand it also in the
current context of the crisis they live
the media
I think that for nobody is a novelty and it is
in that context where one sees the
journalists looking for alternatives
looking for options
the good news is that there are many
journalists risking and doing
interesting stuff
I just want to highlight some here that
they are projects that I admire that I like
that I know them and we accompany them a lot
of the political animal foundation in
mexico the lighthouse in el salvador
effect whose in venezuela agency
Public in Brazil Amphibian in Argentina
here in colombia the empty chair itself
there are so many just mentioned these
I believe that the particularly
but I also want to tell you that it is not
a problem just of quantity is not that
there is quantity there is also quality
last year among the finalists at
ariel garcía marquez award
journalism
We received 1600 and so many applications
the 12 finalists of the four
categories of the best
11 were digital native media
the other element that called me a lot the
attention from the other
was this allusion to the otherness that comes
of the name and I could not help thinking of
that within the framework of what are today called
the famous information bubbles the
resonance chambers filters the
algorithms for those who do not know they
talks about the one with the informative bubbles
to explain how engines
search and platforms organize
and hierarchize information
then they do it basically two
forums one from the record that I
I have that platform and 2 from the
relationships and I build with us
then for example in google
here says the task busch ab and google
because he has my profile and he knows me
then immediately insinuates gabriel
García Marquez because he knows that I
I work at the foundation because I’ve done
many searches on gabriel garcía
marquez and does not put anything of the archangel
san gabriel why google knows
also like my family and my friends
that I as a saint and religious
also works with facebook in the
love and to the extent that I give like a
people who share things and usually do not
what you tend to like the things that
one believes that it is the algorithm to
prioritizing was then giving priority
to certain contents to 112,000 facebook
it is much more likely to arise
content you have to see for example
with homosexual marriage that is something
in what I believe that I defend that
other points
of course that makes the network
they build from affinities but
those affinities are limiting my vision
and they do not confront me with other points of
view
from that perspective the idea of the other
to talk about putting yourself in the shoes of
another to count from the perspective of
who thinks differently to me it seems to me that
it has a great relevance
the third aspect of the newspaper the other
that catches my attention
it has to do with an approach
around the relationship between
opinion and information
Newspaper
the other had the following
editorial approach there will be no
editorials nor will there be columnists was a
newspaper without opinion
tell me if that is not a thing
wonderful I see a trend in the
means of latin america and colombia
where there is a great burden of opinion
I want to share this information, this one was
says research professor mario
morals of the university had made
an analysis of the main ones of all
the news that arises that were
published in time and the viewer
about the negotiation
they were almost 11 thousand 41 percent were
they were located in the section of
opinion or were generous related
with the opinion that is to say we had the
negotiation process practically
half and half
I of course I’m not saying that the
opinion is not important not to
insinuate is there are many reasons that
explain this trend
of course the context of crisis is
much cheaper to make opinion and
information and in the context of
social networks
the opinion marks the agenda very much
but I think we really appreciate all
if we could have a public debate
based on verified information
where the data has been checked
and this work has been done by
professionals we already know that he
owner of the other was not achieved gao started
with this idea in the year 82 and late
of that year he won the Nobel Prize
then that desire that he had of
be in the living room reaction to live the
blare the news adds despite
that he was already a very famous man
the nobel is catapulted by the stratosphere of
fame and its commitments to way to
Cabo insisted and wanted to get the project
ahead
what is interesting at least for
us is that we found in the dream
frustrated from the other
the seed of the foundation we
We learned about support between
memoranda that dario arizmendi has
Fasting of an Argentine called
rodolfo terragno but not the partners and
who told him still accepting that
you had a debit and not a credit in
your account with colombia
I think the newspaper would not be the only
way to save other initiatives and
includes among the possible ones of the workshop
journalism would mean fewer sacrifices
necessary and effectively this what
wrote terragno in mid -83 in
the 94
gabo jaime abello and another group of friends
they create the foundation new journalism
Iberoamerican that has as its mission
form inspire connecting the media to
the ventures to the journalists of
latin america iberoamerica and the
heart of the foundation are the
workshops
we have made hundreds of their own
marquez as we see in this photo and
ovaries this was a workshop that he did in
the Herald
here we see the great tomás eloy
martínez doing a workshop in good
airs
here we see yesterday that we did in
Cartagena where is our headquarters where
We have done more than 200 activities
this was a seminar that we did the
last year in mexico
that was the wish of gao and through
the foundation of what he wants
we will encourage journalists to do
best
Gao always wanted to be the best and he is
the best example
think a man born in a small town
the colombian caribbean without ancestry without
last names formed in schools
public gao is son of
Colombian public action and it becomes
one of the best writers in the world
he never let his guard down in being the best and
he never let his guard down in wanting to do
the best possible journalism
that was the dream of the other and in this
phrase seems to reflect well that does not
I want to be remembered for a hundred years
of solitude or for the Nobel Prize but
by the newspaper ace and journalist and today
I feel more journalist than ever what
my blood pulls me
I also want us to do the best
latin america diary
the best informed the most truthful the most
exact that he never ratified and that already
the 22 years
inspired by gao convinced today more
that it’s never possible to do from
america latin the best journalism of the
world
digital tools facilitate
much this possibility and I want to believe
who walk the streets of our
latin america as the species of
habits and habitas many journalists
convinced of the importance of having
free and independent media that
seek to tell stories that move
investigated with great rigor with
an ethic based on transparency in
the responsibility in the independence and
I want to believe that many of those
journalists take up some ideas that
were raised 35 years ago and that
today it seems that they have more validity
that never again
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