WHAT’S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

Launched only a few months ago, the new editorial and graphic model of Diari de Balears is one of the winners of this year’s European Local Newspaper Award.

This INNOVATION project shows how you can successfully upgrade a very small newspaper with wild ideas.

The paper is a winner with really unique inside section fronts like this:

It also was selected as the best designed newspaper of the year in Spain and Portugal

And now it has won the same European award that another INNOVATION project, Eleftheros Typos, won last year.

The new Diari de Balears involved an INNOVATION team led by our president, Carlos Soria, and consultants like Javier Errea, Carlos Enrique Bayo, Chiqui Esteban and Ismael Nafría.

Congratulations to all of them and also to Pedro, Miquel and Carmen Serra, and to Manolo Riera, the fantastic art director.

Watch here the video clip of the launch.

Watch here an interesting video of the QE2 grounding on the early morning of Nov. 11 on arrival in Southampton.

In the video, the QE2 is in red, Southampton Patrol is yellow, the Tenax is blue and the Svitzer tugs are black.

Vivian Schiller, the head of The New York Times’ digital efforts, has left the company to go to the National Public Radio.

As Senior Vice President and General Manager of NYTimes.com, she led the day-to-day management of The New York Times online edition, as well as other Internet efforts by the Times. 

A great loss.

At the worst time for the paper.

NYT shares today were less than $8 USD.

Lower than ever.

I read all The New Yorker reports about the Obama victory flying from New York to Brussels last night.

An amazing issue with fantastic stories.

Once again, its editor writes the longest and best piece.

What an editor and what a magazine!

The New Yorker is pure caviar.

The list of winners for this year’s EUROPEAN NEWSPAPER AWARDS will be published here Nov. 15 at 11:59 p.m. (one minute before midnight).

What’s unique about this European competition is that the awards consider the newspaper’s design and concept.

So, content-driven design.

Not just cosmetics.

Pure decoración.

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were.”

John F. Kennedy, U.S. president.

Time cover by Pietro Annigoni.

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

C.S. Lewis.

Oxford and Cambridge’s Magdalen Colleges fellow.

In this time of crisis, newspapers need to invest in innovation.

In wild ideas.

So, let’s start with some “innovation caviar” from radical innovators.

With the help of some old Time magazine covers.

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.”

Charles Kettering.

He was head of research for General Motors for 27 years from 1920 to 1947.