THE NEW ODIEL (1)

Files under General | Jan 23rd

INNOVATION adds today another unique editorial and graphic redesign to its list of worldwide list of newspapers.

This time in Huelva (Andalusia, Spain) with ODIEL, a regional newspaper that competes wit other local, regional and national newspapers, magazines, radio, television and new media.

So INNOVATION’s proposal was be more local than ever, be more glocal than ever.

Main changes: bold logo, fresh front page, easy to read typography, playing loud a big local/glocal story (the new immigrants in a region of emigrants).

Congratulations to the fantastic ODIEL team lead by its editor Agustín Samaniego and publisher Juan España, and to Javier, Giordano, Carlos, Mauri, Roberto, Luis and Ale, and a very young and creative newsroom that were helping INNOVATION’s Antonio Martin and Miguel Angel Jimeno to launch a more unique and compelling newspaper.

Above is today’s new front page, and below the old one.

More, later.


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SERIOUS JOURNALISM AND POPULAR NEWSPAPERS

Files under General | Jan 13th

EXTRA (Globo Group) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a great example of how a popular newspaper can be a good newspaper and do serious journalism.

Like this almost “show, don’t tell” front page.

Just the facts, just the pictures and a compelling headline.

Well done!


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WHAT A FRONT PAGE!

Files under General | Dec 29th

The Virginian-Pilot, the newspaper redesigned by Deborah Withey, had yesterday a fantastic news mix.

From a memorable and exhilarating picture to facts, what’s next, and advice.

A superb front page news package from Denis Finley’s team.

This is what happens when your editor is a former photo editor.

Well done!

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EUROPEAN NEWSPAPERS FACE THE DAY AFTER CHALLENGE

Files under General | Oct 13th

The rescue news from Chile arrived late to Europe so you will not find any major front page or coverage in today’s editions.

American newspaper had a better chance but in general the pattern was Big Pictures (TV was better) and Big Words (TV was better).

So, what we can expect tomorrow in the front pages of the best European newspapers?

Well, not too much.

They will try again the Big Pictures and Big Words easy game.

Ignoring that the rescue was a worldwide TV event and it’s going to be difficult to add new angles and clues to the big news of the day before…

Yes, I know that this is always difficult, but newspaper editors had many week in advance to plan for this magic moment.

TV did its work.

I watched BBC, News Sky News and CNN Chile and all of them did a superb job.

What European newspapers readers expect tomorrow is not to see again the same pictures, the same infographics, and the same news, but a more creative, analytical, pro-active and “news behind the news” stories.

But I doubt that our newspapers will do it.

Instead, like in music and as our grandmother will tell us when we were little ones, “if you don’t play well, at least play loud”

So expect more empty noise.


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INNOVATION’S I NEWSPAPER GOES RETRO

Files under General | Oct 5th

I ANIV REPUBLICA

Just for one day.

A great front page of “i” by Pedro Fernandes, for the anniversary of the Portuguese Republic.


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DIARIO DE S. PAULO INSTANT ANALYSIS FRONT PAGE

Files under General | Oct 4th

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The new Diario de S. Paulo has today a front page that explains WHAT happened in yesterday’s presidential elections, plus the WHY and the WHAT’S NEXT.

Instant analysis.

Including amazing inside pages like this double spread one.

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Brilliant!

And this Thursday morning in Hamburg (Germany), the WAN-IFRA World Editors Forum in will present the new Diario de S. Paulo case.

His CEO, Flavio Pestana, will the speaker.

After his presentation I will post in this blog a video that shows the changes made by INNOVATION with the new team of DSP.


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LESS HYPE, LESS SPIN, AND JUST THE (GRAPHIC) FACTS, BABY

Files under General | May 25th

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We need more editors like Simon Kelner.

And less art directors.

Less decorators.

Less designers.

Less cosmetic journalism.

Less infographic artists.

And more visual journalists and editors like the editor of The Independent.

Today, all the British papers are using the same BIG words about the “savage cuts” announced by the new government:

“Dramatic”

“Agressive”

“Huge”

Well, that’s easy hype and spin.

The reality check is this front page.

“Show, don’t tell” at its best.

The rest is bullshit.

Non sense.

Garbage.

Bad journalism or, better, lack of journalism.

We are here to tell the real story.

Not just propaganda stuff.

With front pages like this one you cannot say more with less.

Caviar Journalism.


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THE SUNDAY MADNESS: BRITISH SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS FROM ANOTHER WORLD

Files under General | Apr 18th

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The country is grounded.

The Sunday Times reports that:

Five million travelers, including as many as 1m Britons, are stranded or unable to fly.

Some have been told they may not get home until next month.

Schools are preparing for missing teachers and pupils tomorrow.

Cambridge University has cancelled exams because dozens of students and examiners are stranded abroad.

Hannah Montana was due to appear at the London premiere of her new film The Last Song, but Disney said she was still in America and unable to fly.

Geologists have no idea when it will stop.

An eruption in Iceland in 1973 lasted five months and 10 days.

And many British Sunday newspapers don’t get it!

The Observer opens its Sunday edition with a Thursday night story…

The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Express, and The Independent on Sunday ignore the news in their front pages.

Yes, nothing.

Nada!

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Nada!

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Nothing!

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What a shame!

The Sunday Telegraph does better.

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And sends reporters to watch the real ash cloud.

While The Sunday Times, the leading quality Sunday paper, opens with the ashes as the main story.

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Any explanations?

Yes.

Two main reasons:

1. Sunday newspapers are becoming more and more features newspapers, so they don’t do reporting. Their editions go to the presses very early on Saturday and the real deadline in the newsrooms is Friday night… so relax, and wait until next Monday or Tuesday to say something as the regular sources and Mandarins will feed you. On Weekends they don’t work, like you.

2. When you have a newsroom organized around beats, of course you don’t have an “ashes” beat. And you don’t have enough flexibility to cover major news like this one. So your front page reflects the politicians agenda. Not the people’s one.

The mantra now in many European countries is to say that Sunday newspapers need to be re-invented.

Well, not really.

What they need is to do journalism 101.

Cover the news, write stories behind the news.

And serve the readers.

And not just cover the sources.

And please them.

Period.


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POLISH NEWSPAPERS,24 HOUR LATER

Files under General | Apr 11th

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I saw some front pages.

And almost all of them look alike.

Pictures of the dead.

24 hour later you could expect more than that.

I am sure that many of these newspapers included good pieces to explain the why’s of the crash.

This what The Economist is looking for.

As Damian Thompson writes today in The Telegraph:

“Poland, like most East European countries, is obsessed with conspiracies. Russians, Jews, Americans, Freemasons – they will all be blamed. Some stories will be more credible than others. These explanations are so much more emotionally satisfying to traumatised people than the likely truth: that the Polish politicians – like so many politicians in less developed countries – were accustomed to risking their lives in dodgy planes.”

So, again and again, newspapers do cosmetic design, instead of explanatory journalism.

Nice envelopes but where’s the beef?

Inside?

Perhaps.

But why not in the front page?


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THE FIRST iPAD PRINT FRONT PAGE

Files under General | Feb 23rd

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A great print front page from the Danish newspaper Informatíon.


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