Bartolomé and Marcos

Two stories about studying. We´ve read in Heraldo the story of Barlomé, a 93-year-old university student. Marcos is a hearing impaired student and we´ve read his story in La Voz de Galicia. We´ve always thought that the journalism that narrates stories about values is a better journalism.

Good people

There aren´t many  cycles as virtuous as this one: a citizen asks a newspaper for help, the paper becomes a speaker and someone answers. Today we feature an example, from  Diario de Burgos, about "what is the purpose of a newspaper?":

 La Voz de Galicia searched for "a good person" too. An accident and...

Cecily and Cecil

He´ve read the story in Ideal. The Clinic from Granada is closing down. Cecil and Cecily (Cecilo and Cecilia in Spanish) where, 61 years ago, the first babies to be born there. And they are still at the Clinic, working as nurses.
Great idea to gather them together.

Laovo Cande died on a raft full of immigrants

This story attracted our attention —for its strenght, and for the involvement of a journalist in a support project that is giving good results but it needs help— and was published a few days ago in La Vanguardia. 

Laovo Cande died in 2006 on a raft full of immigrants. He was from Guinea-Bissau and he aimed to reach the Canary Islands. Two journalists from the newspaper  (José Bejarano and Emilio Castro) went to his hometown and wrote a series of five outstanding features that we now recover.

"Rubius"

Those of us who are in social networks check, from time to time, how many people follow us. We might even feel important. The boast lasts until you come across... "the king of youtube". We loved this large feature published by El Periódico about Rubén Doblas. If the blog´s followers have teenage children, they know... Today we´ll beat, by far, the usual number of blog visitors.

Lázaro´s smile

We start the week properly: showing stories. We are living a good period in newspapers, it´s worth saying it. The stories we are featuring have different approaches. Regional newspapers from Vocento focused on telling, in depth, the miraculous recovery of Lázaro, who had an operation for his cerebral palsy three years ago. In Las Provincias we read small stories about volunteers and, great theme, about survivors. Diario de Burgos  recovered the story of Amando López, a Jesuit murdered 25 years ago in El Salvador.

Little stories?

We are pleased to find these pages in newspapers. We know they mean a great effort. Maybe some people don´t see excellent opportunities in these stories, maybe they think it means to bet on something small, insignificant. Today we pay tribute —through Diario de Navarra and Santiago Zuza— to all those journalist that explore soccer minor leagues and, every week, give us outstanding pages.

Conchi has ALS

Outstanding feature in  Heraldo about this disease. There are facts, there´s a good infographic and, above all, the newspaper shares a day with Conchi. There is a lot of affection in these pages.

We´ve also seen these days two excellent ideas about Alzeheimer´s disease. The first one, a feature in Las Provincias; the second one, a great bet on the theme in Ara, with the excellent change in its masthead

To end a story

These two pages from Diario de Burgos  have two great virtues. One is to publish a story "from the streets". The other virtue, to narrate "the end"of the story. Sometimes doing good journalism is so simple...

What happened to...

We like these coverages. We like when newspapers meet again those citizens who narrated their stories. El Periódico has done it:

A piece of news, a story

Many times a piece of news can give way to narrate a story related, somehow, with it. La Vanguardia took advantage of the match played by Barcelona in Nice to remember part of one of its most distinguished players´ life: Samitier.

In the border

The title fits perfeclty: "Kids in pursuit of a dream". This report published by La Vanguardia,  is one of those to read slowly and carefully. Written by Elisabet Sabartés

To surprise the protagonist

That´s how it is. It would have been fantastic that the photographer had been there the moment in which the swimmer Teresa Perales, the Aragonese athlete most honored throughout history, was leading the way the main topic from the "Cuaderno del domingo" (Sunday´s notebook), from El Periódico de Aragón. They write about her, about her husband, her physiotherapist... And the opening-page is from her son.

Thanks to the newspaper...

Another case, and there are already many, in which a newspaper narrates the story of a person that has problems and... that begins to have a happy ending. El Periódico published, on the back cover from the 13th of January,  Carlos' story. A few days ago we discovered that, thanks to citizens that read about his unfortunate experience, Carlos' life has change to better.

A hundred-year-old and from R. Madrid

If the future of journalism has nothing to do with telling stories, we are on the wrong path. Big or small stories. Stories from well-known people or from those who are strangers until they appear on the pages of a newspaper. We could show dozens of recent examples. We´ll keep four. They are from El Periódico, Heraldo, Diario de Burgos and La Rioja.