May 23, 2023 is the birthday of FIRST online celebrating its first 12 years of life. Since its inception, FIRSTonline's bet has been and is to create a web journal of economy e finance able to lead into the jungle of the network a quality journalism and to make it last over time. Today many people recognize FIRSTonline's unmistakable identity made up of independence, professional competence, reliability, quality and creativity. If we add to this that FIRSTonline is one of the rare online publications with active accounts, which doesn't even have a euro of debt, which pays all taxes and the salaries of all its staff on time without any form of precariousness, one can well say with some pride that the gamble was fully won.
FIRSTonline translates your texts into the most spoken languages in the world in real time
But this year's birthday is not an occasion for self-celebration and it is not an ordinary birthday. On the contrary, it is an opportunity to announce that we are making a second dream come true: that of speaking to the world. We have been doing it for a few days with an artificial intelligence technology based on neural networks that allows the translation in real time and at no cost to the reader of all our texts in the 14 languages most spoken in the world: English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Turkish . Seeing is believing: just look for the strip of flags at the top right of each article and click on the one corresponding to the desired language and the translation is instantaneous and of good quality.
12 years after the birth of FIRSTonline, the second dream that all newspapers and print journalists have always had but never been able to live has come true: that of speaking to the world and seeing their texts circulate not only in our country and in the original language but all over the world and in the 14 most spoken languages. If the Internet has allowed everyone to realize the first dream of printed journalists and that is to publish the news collected in the shortest possible time and no longer the day after, artificial intelligence now makes it possible to circulate one's own texts in time real in all parts of the globe.
FIRSTonline: new technologies help but the real challenge is to do good journalism
These are spectacular changes that new technologies have made possible but which do not erase or obscure the real challenge of FIRSTonline which is and remains that of good journalism. Technologies are the tool, the quality of information is the goal of every day.
In a few years paper newspapers will disappear and we say it with regret but the reality is there for all to see: newspaper sales are falling, their balance sheets are crying, the new generations do not read paper newspapers and newsagents are disappearing. The present and above all the future ofinformation is online. But in order not to regret paper newspapers, online information must make an exceptional leap in quality not only to eliminate fake news but to fight homogenization, trivialization, approximation, conformity, the religion of clicks and that of SEO. Good journalism is the most exciting challenge of today's and tomorrow's online information and readers know that FIRSTonline exists and will continue to follow this path.