Journalism: innovation, resilience, reinvention

Abstract

The title of this issue of #PerDebate, Resilience and innovation: immersive narratives, new formats and economic models in times of crisis, once again underlines the need for journalism to reflect on the conditions that have caused its crisis in today's societies. As we know it today, journalism arises in a context of epistemological, technological, communicational and business models typical of modernity and the capitalism of the liberal democracies of the 19th and 20th centuries. If this context changes, as has been happening since the end of the 20th century and with greater intensity in the 21st century, it is not surprising that journalism has entered into crisis. Typically modernist concepts such as truth or objectivity, which were paradigmatic in modernity, have been questioned for decades in the humanities and social sciences.