New journalistic and documentary paradigms in digital newspapers: study of specific cases in Spain

Evolution, development and expansion of journalism and digital documentation are observed with basis on the origin of digital writing and the surging of digital documentalists who serve these media. The arrival of Internet has put big, medium and little media in a difficult position to understand for editors, writers (proof-readers) documentalists and administrators to understand, and also users/readers that now have a new perception of informative reality. In less than a decade, the previous model has broken down. In order to face this situation specialists have modeled a new way of confronting information, attending proof-reader’s questions and confronting their own work. A research and follow-up of digital media and its information is proposed, under the perspective of documentation and the case study of four of the big national newspapers.