2023-11-30 17:08:56
The search for a new press model based on the political and institutional bases created in the country, and which requires a change of mentality at a social level, will be the main objective on which the newly elected Upec presidency will work in the XI Congress of the organization. Through the Upec videoconferencing system, all provincial delegations are connected to the meeting.
Ricardo Ronquillo, ratified as president, will lead in this stage a work team that also includes young people with great authority and recognition in the sector. “We all have the responsibility to promote this transformation so that Upec is an organization that resembles the challenges we are experiencing.”
When referring to the results and projections of the XI Congress, he said that “if anything was evident in the debates, it is the interdependence between the strength of the press system and the mobilizing and unifying capacity of Upec, and vice versa. A strong, purposeful Upec with leadership, capable of serving as an interlocutor with the country’s authorities, oxygenates the press system and a strong and vital press system confers authority to the organization.”
At the meeting, the work projections for the five-year period and the distribution of tasks among its members were put to the presidency’s consideration. “Although we will all have specific responsibilities, we will all be based on the main objectives of the organization.”
In relation to this structure, Ronquillo commented on the importance of continuing to contribute data to the Communication Map, which implies digitalization in the organizational work of Upec. He also emphasized that the progress of the experiment in the 17 selected media is a task to be prioritized by the members of the presidency and the provincial presidents, because of what it means in the transformation of the media system and the extension of the experience.
“The fact that it has started in seven media does not mean that progress is being made in all of them in the comprehensive transformation that is being committed to,” he said. This entails editorial transformation (moving towards multimedia status with impact results measurable with modern tools); economic transformation; the redesign of newsrooms so that they respond to the characteristics of a modern multimedia, that uses human resources rationally and that adequately stimulates them from additional income to the State budget and the transformation in the use of science and technology. innovation”.
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