This conference presents an unprecedented scenario in the journalistic discourse: the transformation towards a new cycle in the history of the media. We are referring, specifically, to the miniaturization of the informative text, a trend that condenses information into short and concise formats, adapted to an audience looking for fast and easy-to-digest data.
This process of change is profoundly affected in our time by the emergence of the artificial intelligence. AI provides multiple not only creative options, but also diversifies the very craft of writing and constructing texts, in an era of accelerated transformation.
Miniaturization, therefore, is consolidated as one more model in this process of historical changes. Until now, the journalistic text has tended to be explanatory, expository and with a dimension that made it possible to expose the referents widely. It is in this century that such patterns have radically changed. The current challenge and innovation is to achieve that, without losing the essence of the background, new models of discourse emerge that reduce their length without changing its attributes and informational value in journalism.
M.Sc. Modesto A. Tuñón Flores
Country: Panama
Journalist, professor and consultant in social communication, with a solid background that includes a Master's Degree in Creative Writing of Spanish (University of Salamanca), a Master's Degree in Social Communication (UNAM), a Master's Degree in Higher Education, and bachelor's degrees in Journalism and in Spanish Language and Literature (University of Panama), in addition to specializations in CIESPAL (Ecuador) and a postgraduate degree in investigative journalism in Cuba. His academic career has led him to teach at the University of Panama, the USMA — where he taught courses on research methodology and investigative journalism — and the Inter-American University. In the public sector, he has served as coordinator of the Social Communication Research Center (Ministry of Government and Justice), deputy director of Communication at the Ministry of Youth, and Director of Communication at the Ministry of Environment, where he currently works as a journalist. At the same time, he has maintained an active presence in written media: he was an editor at the weekly Capital Financiero, a contributor to Panama America, and is a weekly columnist at La Estrella de Panama. He is the author of an extensive work covering essays, research and literature, with titles such as The information of the written press in times of crisis, The regulation of radio in Panama, Human footprint, landscapes and perspectives of the planet, the storybook Getting out from among the streets (2024) and Everyday texts for the opinion (2025). Since 2021 he has been a Corresponding Member of the Panamanian Academy of Language.
