It is one thing to use the front page to promote the stories of the day.
It is another thing to limit the space for our cover stories.
In Brazil this shrinking trend is very clear today.
If you understand Portuguese, watch this video clip of Rodrigo Lara Mesquita, one the new media visionaires of this world.
Rodrigo is also one of our best friends.
He and his family, owners of O Estado de S. Paulo in Brazil, were the first clients of INNOVATION.
Born in São Paulo, he is a journalist who studied in the École des Hautes Études (Paris, France), and was the director of Agência Estado (AE).
A former president of the Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica, he now is the driving force behind RadiumSystems-Peabirus, and the Brazilian representative of Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project.
These are very dramatic front pages from today’s Brazilian newspapers.
Shocking if you have never been to Rio.
Normal for the locals and regular visitors.
What’s more striking to me is the almost general indifference from the rest of the papers in the country.
Good papers like Zero Hora just ignored the story on their front pages.
And Jornal do Brasil didn’t put any pictures in the cover.
But this was a big story.
City warfare!
And not covering such a bloody, messy story on so many front pages means that the Brazilian editors and journalists are burned-out from so much violence.
Not good.
Not good.
For Brazil.
And for their newspapers.
