“Shooting at a Trump rally.” The news is confusing at first moments. Have they attacked the former US president? Are you hurt? A few minutes pass midnight in the ABC Newsroom, six in the afternoon in Pennsylvania, and we are faced with news that shakes the already hectic electoral campaign.
The exchange of calls and messages with correspondents is frenetic. The news is confirmed: it is an assassination attempt. We launch mobile alerts and breaking news newsletters. The night team works at full speed to incorporate the latest news on the website. The printed newspaper is remade. We spread the news through X, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp… We immediately created a live stream to collect every detail in real time. “The aggressor has been killed.” Photos, videos are added…
This is how coverage of one of the news of the year began on ABC on July 14. However, the task had only just begun.
From immediacy to calm analysis
Throughout the night, we continue to update the information. But the ABC website not only covers the latest news. The next morning, it’s time to go deeper: the reactions, the repercussions on the campaign, the analyses, the opinions…
In addition, infographics of the scene of the attack, podcasts and in-depth reports from correspondents are published. A whole series of quality content that is not only intended for the paper newspaper, but also for ABC Premium subscribers on the web.
Every day, an organization of more than two hundred journalists gets to work to respond instantly to the hottest news, but also to offer content with ABC’s high-quality standards both in the traditional paper version and in digital format.
The most advanced technology, at the service of ABC journalists to deliver information to the reader in different formats and digital media
Specialists in the most varied subject areas work to bring the reader the best information in the most advanced formats: from political chroniclers to sports or bullfighting; from court experts to film critics; of the science and health writers to economic journalists. And along with them, a long list of multimedia professionals, from infographic, new narrativesaudiences, photography or layout.
ABC Premium subscribers have unlimited access to the most exclusive content, such as first fruits of our journalists, reports on the ground, analysis from prestigious brands or content multimedia.
But they have more advantages, such as newsletters only for subscribers (bullfights, defense, religion, Latin America…), or the possibility of receiving the editorials and opinions of our members in your email. columnists before anyone else, the day before its publication in the paper newspaper.
A wide network of correspondents
The extensive network of ABC correspondents deserves a separate chapter, one of the newspaper’s differential values. About thirty journalists They unravel the news of an increasingly complex world from the main squares, from Washington or New York to Beijing, passing through Brussels, London, Mexico City, Buenos Aires or Havana. ABC is present in wasp nests, such as Ukraine, Russia or the Middle Eastand their ABC journalists move like special envoys wherever the news breaks.
Javier Ansorenacorrespondent in New York, has attended numerous Trump election rallies, including the one he held with tycoon Elon Musk in Butler, Pennsylvania, weeks after the assassination attempt:
ABC’s special envoy, from Butler, Pennsylvania
He himself explains the value of reporting from the scene of the events. It is about “accompanying the reader to understand how the disenchanted worker in a Detroit factory, the farmer in the Midwest, racial minorities…” think. And it’s not always easy. “You arrive like a parachutist in an environment that you don’t know and where it is a challenge to find sources” and you have to “talk to as many people as possible” to reflect the events “truthfully,” he points out.
Behind each news story there is a complex organization and a human team that works like clockwork and makes it possible for ABC to continue being, After more than 120 years of history, a reference medium in any of its formats.
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