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2010 could be the year in which the arrival and consolidation in the market of several models of mobile devices for reading books and online dailies becomes real. This year, new electronic tablets will be launched, together with e-reader and e-ink systems. Tablets already were announced in the nineties but they are prepared to conquer the market this year. Wired and Sports Illustrated are presenting new editions for such mobile devices. HP and Apple have presented their models (Slate and iPad), and in the meantime a patents war could put an end to the era of flash dominance for multimedia contents. Different firms are trying to keep their advantage and knowledge acquired over centuries of print production while making the transition to electronic dissemination.

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Pioneer in taking the first steps in the digital environment, the radio has broken into the network reinforcing its sound identity. The objective of this research is to identify and characterize the online radio in Spain. To this end, a database of online media has been created in which the number of online stations, platforms, territorial scope, ownership, content, use of social networks, funding channels and the languages used are identified. The study shows that online radio in Spain is reinforced, and this happens mostly in the local area and with generalist content, while the financing model remains a pending task.

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Algorithms, bots and automation for news articles generation. The combination of these concepts, elements and processes is affecting journalism as a profession, which is going through a particularly tumultuous period as artificial intelligence (AI) begins to occupy a field traditionally dominated by the human factor. This research provides a world map featuring media, agencies and companies that use automation to generate information. Moreover, we looked into the perception of this phenomenon in Spain through a survey with chartered professional associations, associations of journalists and unions where 366 journalists provided a picture of the current situation within the country. Our findings prove that there is a deep lack of understanding amongst Spanish journalists about how AI can have a direct impact on journalism as a profession. Automated journalism will not stop gaining ground, as evidenced by 50 projects featured on our media world map.