Good old John Carlin complains today in an interview with La Vanguardia that he currently dedicates himself more to making opinions from the comfort of his home in Barcelona than live reporting because there is less money in journalism. Our collaborator is right. Maintaining fifteen correspondents around the world and assigning special envoys when a situation requires it means an enormous effort for those of us who make La Vanguardia. There are media that have already given up the battle for lost. Quality journalism costs money and that is why it is so important to have the support of our great community of subscribers, readers and also, of course, our advertisers.
This is what has allowed, for example, that our journalist specializing in Africa, Xavier Aldekoa, has been able to spend two months touring the Congo River from its source to its mouth. Today he begins a series of eight chapters in the digital edition and five in the paper edition where he explains his odyssey, traveling no more and no less than 4,770 kilometers. Sometimes in light canoes, other times in wooden boats and other times on giant platforms that can carry up to 400 people, Aldekoa brings us closer to the reality of a country that is a faithful reflection of the problems of an entire continent. As seen at the last climate summit in the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikh, Africa no longer wants to be a troupe subject to the decisions of a First World that has polluted the planet for many years and now wants to impose its conditions without compensation.
Aldekoa’s work is possible because, although he traveled alone to carry out this task, he later had the support of the photography, video, design and computer graphics teams to be able to accurately capture everything he had collected. And then the distribution partners will work so that her issues are disclosed by all available networks. Only differential and quality information combined with the opportunities offered by digitization allow us to offer you this menu every day for your enjoyment. But this is not free.
