- 25/08/2017
- Category: DigiTalk
Digitalism is increasingly felt in the daily life of society. The technology and the development of its features nowadays extend to various sectors, one of which is in the field of journalism. Among the mass media in cyberspace, Tirto.id presents as a fresh new media and has distinctive characteristics in addition to other media. Titro.id comes with the principles of analysis, in-depth, long-form, including data and visual. Coming to Digitalk # 11 this month Zen RS, Editor at Large Tirto.id.
The presence of Zen RS in Digitalk #11 was taking the attention of all participants. Many people were curious about how Tirto.id as a new media, able to maintain its principle and character in delivering their news and article. Among the options of exsisting media, those are pursuing traffic and hits by relying on news headlines that outwit the reader, Tirto.id presents an in-depth discussion with an infographic that appeals to readers. Leaded by UmarAbdul Aziz (Manager of Event and Traning CfDS Fisipol UGM) as a moderator, Digitalk #11 opened with a presentation about various reporting and writing models in Tirto.id
“With these points, Tirto is already different from other news channels. What makes different? What we designed in accordance to our definition of Tirto. We will try to collect information, data, as much as possible by using Tirto perfective.” explained Zen RS.
Digitalk #11 was attended by 150 participants from various places and colleges. The enthusiasm of the participants was increasingly shown when the moderator opened a question and answer session. Many questions were about how Tirto.id became an independent media, about proper title selection, up to Tirto.id business model.
“For a whole year, Tirto presents a beta version of website without ads. It has become the editor’s own decision not to advertise. But in the future, every media must be able to support themself. Otherwise, it can be very vulnerable to both business and political intervention. In the future, in the second year of Tirto, we have started sorting out to manage what ads we will show.” said Zen RS.
Zen also admitted that for the newly established, Tirto.id was still early enough to be called as successful media. Zen RS revealed that the biggest challenge came when Tirto.id had entered the 2-3 years to the far fore. But besides that, Zen did not dismiss the achievement of Tirto that was able to be known by the Indonesian people widely in just a year. Tirto.id managed to rank 60 in the top 100 most accessed websites. Within a month, Tirto.id was able to reach 6 million readers. Achieving this, Tirto.id at once broke justifying argument that netizens only wanted to ready short articles.
