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A radiography of the state of digital media in 2013-2014 is presented, paying special attention to the situation in Spain, but with international references. Eleven main points are discussed: the crisis in print media, the rise of new media, digital strategies, canon Aede (aka the Google tax), mobile reading devices, brand journalism, data journalism, fact checking, multimedia storytelling, long-format journalism, and computer journalism.

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Radiography of the state of digital media in 2011-2012 paying special attention to the situation in Spain, but with references to the international situation. The main points are: the crisis of the media, pay-for-content, data journalism, fact checking, apps and products for reading devices, micromedia and crowdfunding.

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This radiography of the state of digital media in 2010 pays special attention to the situation in Spain, with references to the international one. The main points are: the crisis of the media, the return to pay-for-content, reading devices for news as the iPad, developments in social media and real time news.

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This radiography of the state of digital media in 2009 pays special attention to the situation in Spain and references to the international situation. The main points are: the crisis of the media, major ups (La información.com and Factual) and downs (Adn.es and Soitu.es), the return to pay-for-content, the conflict between newspapers and Google, the relationship with Facebook and Twitter, “link journalism”, developments in digital newspaper archives and reading devices for news.

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Video has become widespread in Spanish online newspapers in recent years. However, its adoption raises some questions and important challenges. This paper suggests some of the motivations that have driven its development and describes the most common types of news video content. Additionally, it underlines some doubts about the model of video inclusion that online newspapers have adopted and the actual capacity to capture the interest of the audience.

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The digital media has proven successful with a specific type of information which is of great interest to those readers, accustomed to using diverse technology that furnishes them with the news on a variety of platforms: internet newspapers, information on social networks, informative documents on video, etc. This article studies how the blogs have created their own niche among the readers of digital press and how they have been incorporated into the digital newspapers to the point where they now have their own section. A special study is also made of the main Spanish digital daily papers.

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The present article analyzes the presence and the type of use of the platforms and resources of the web 2.0 in the principal online newspapers of Latin America. The results derive from a recent study of 70 online mass media of Latin America, Spain and Portugal with the aim to diagnose the presence of the social web, the type of application of Web 2.0 resources and how these modify the concept of a web newspaper.