WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

Some basic facts about the new “i” newspaper to be launched this Thursday in Lisbon:

First INNOVATION meeting with the directors of Sojormedia: August 2008 in Faro, Portugal.

First INNOVATION prototypes presented in Lisbon: December 16, 2008, still with no final name.

Publisher: SOJORMEDIA, a regional multimedia group owned by the Lena Group.

CEO of  SOJORMEDIA and “i”:  Francisco Santos.

Publisher and editor-in-chief: Martim Figueiredo.

Managing Editor: André Macedo.

Assistant Editors: Silvia Oliveira and Francisco Camacho.

Assistant Managing Editors: Miguel Pacheco and Monica Bello (online)

Art Director: Nick Mrozowski.

Commercial director:  Joao Pedro Mendes.

General Manager: Rui Paulo.

Editorial System: Milenium from Protec Media.

Design of the news editorial and management facilities: INNOVATION’s Calau & Riera from Barcelona, Spain.

Online design: the team of INNOVATION’s dosalcubo from Buenos Aires, Argentina, led by director Leandro Armas.

URL: www.ionline.pt.

INNOVATION consulting team: Carlo Campos as the Project Manager, Javier Errea as the Chief Design consultant, and Laura Cruz, Miguel Angel Jimeno, Eduardo Tessler, Jorge Heili and Chiqui Esteban.

Journalists: 80 (among them, 6 designers)

Page average: around 56

Full color.

Stapled.

Size: 35 cm x 25 cm.

Published only from Monday to Saturday.

Cover price: Monday to Thursday, 1 euro; Friday and Saturday 1,40 euro.

First run: almost 100.000 copies.

Investment: more than 10 million euros.

Promotional campaign by Ativism

Contacts: “i”, Tagus Park. Edifício Tecnologia I – corpo 1, 2740-257 Oeiras, Portugal. Phone (+351) 210 434 000

(In the picture above, another early INNOVATION prototype of “i” with a masthead, features, type, and colors that you will not see in tomorrow’s real number one)