New age journalism belonging to the digital age would insist social media is the way to go and that print media is a dying communications tool.I was introduced to the world of journalism at eight years old when newspapers are delivered at your doorstep around lunchtime. If you live in the province like me, newspapers arrive mid-day from the city.
I don’t necessarily buy that but I know what my father, who was my first journalism mentor, is trying to drive. Journalism is business. You are only as good as the stories you tell.This is also where Edge Davao is driving a point. With the emerging internet domination, the traditional media were forced to adapt to the changes. Retooling became a byword. A number of news organizations incorporated online into its readership.First, we made the bold move to throwing away the traditional rules of newspaper design and experimented on large photographs while sacrificing the volume and length of stories. We used other tools like talking heads, a legacy of the late editor in chief Antonio M.
Mindanao Times owner Dr. Guillermo Torres, in one of our conversations, said he kept the newspaper which happens to be Davao’s oldest all because it was a legacy from his father who inherited a printing press from the Japanese in World War II.