GREEK MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: THE DAY AFTER

Amazing!

New Democray (right) won the elections and holds the power in many places, including Athens.

Pasok (left) had some wins but it did not gain too much after months of problems, scandals and demostrations against the party in power.

All the papers produced very big editions plus special supplements (many of them with more than 40 pages with all the results for all the canidates).

For instance, Eleftheros Typos had 96 pages and the final edition was at 4:30 AM, with a great coverage of data, news, opinions and analysis.

The only difference between the papers were the headlines.

Conservative papers: NEW DEMOCRACY WINS.

Leftist papers: PASOK WINS.

My first reactions:

1. Kill all the data supplements and send readers to your website (I know, internet is still not as popular like in other countries) or compact this in half of the space.

2. Cover the TV, Radio and Internet coverage, rate it, add gossip (Eleftheros Typos did it) and news behind the cameras, microphones and screens.

3. Tell me stories: the oldest voter, the youngest ones, an unexpected winner or loser...

4. The elections seen by foreigners or immigrants.

5. The elections seen from abroad.

6. Start a great forum in your web page, invite some of the most popular winners to talk with your readers.

7. Teachers of public schools have been on strike for more than one months, tell me what is their reaction after the ruling party wins...

8. And, of course, what does all this means to you, what's next, why, why, why...

As I said, print newspasper have to change in a dramatic way to cope with the challenge of the instant news media.