WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

Chris Llewellyn, FIPP president and CEO, writes about this Inaugural Report in his Foreword:

Click here to read the editor’s note and take a look at the table of contents.

To purchase the full Innovations in Magazines World Report click here.

Some of our key-messages today in Berlin at the FIPP Digital Innovators Summit (DIS) during the presentation of the 2010 INNOVATIONS IN MAGAZINES World Report:

Read the editor’s introduction, see the content table and get print and pdf copies here.

Presented today at the FIPP Digital Innovators Summit (DIS) in Berlin by INNOVATION’s John Wilpers (Boston, USA) and Juan Senor (London, UK).

Read the editor’s introduction, see the content table and get print and pdf copies here.

Read the first paragraph of this poor column and you will see how to write 597 words without any real information, but pretending that you are an insider.

“I ran into James Murdoch last night…” Oh, my God… That’s incredible!

The author of the Murdoch biography seems to be obsessed with the CEO of News Corporation.

As Miran, Pavic twitters to Wolff and about his book “you seem to be compensating for notion it was too soft”

So without real news, he plays the bullshit card.

He is not the only one.

Yesterday, the Manhattan gossip blog, did the same but worse with this kind of pseudo-journalism.

Well, Murdoch never has been a popular figure, but at least deserves some credit as media investor.

Others speak, he does.

Perhaps he is wrong with the pay-model for all his publications, but at the en of the day, you don’t need to worry.

He is the boss.

It’s his money.

And if you don’t need to like him.

So all this anti-Murdoch furor seems out of focus.

Full disclosure:

In my case, I subscribe to The Times of London.

And, I’m sorry Mr. Wolff, I like it very much.

His company invited us for a “One Day with Innovation” and the meeting with his publishers and editors in Australia was a pleasure, and he also wrote a terrific Foreword for our 2009 INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPER, and he was very gracious with us.

(Illustration by Luis Grañena)

The 2010 INNOVATIONS IN MAGAZINES World Report will be on sale and available online next Monday.

FIPP will be launching the first Innovations in Magazines report at its Digital Conference on 1 March 2010.

INNOVATION’s Juan Senor (London) and John Wilpers (Boston) are the co-editors of the new 100-page report.

The report is a global look at the most innovative initiatives to increase magazine reach, relevance, revenue, and readership.

The survey will highlight a series of magazine case studies and interviews showing initiatives that have a proven track record of being successful, focusing on identifying innovation in content-driven solutions. The study will be co-published by Innovation Media Consulting, which has also produced the annual World Association of Newspapers World Report for more than 10 years.

John Wilpers said: “If press reports were an accurate thermometer of the health of the magazine industry, publishers, editors and sales people would be out in droves looking for jobs in different industries. Instead, IINNOVATON found the brightest minds in the magazine industry to be bursting with innovative energy. Good news never makes the nightly television broadcast, but there is an abundance of good news as technology, out-of-the-box thinking, and old-fashioned hard work are enabling innovation that is delivering new readers, revenues and relevance to magazines around the world. The future of magazines is indeed bright, and we’ll show how and why in the first annual Innovations in Magazines report.”

Illustrated by Deborah Withey and Luis Grañena, and designed by Javier Zarracina, the first INNOVATIONS IN MAGAZINES is a fantastic report inspired by our two INNOVATION’s magazine gurus: Juan Caño and Thomaz Souto Correa.

Read here, free, the Foreword written by Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation’s Chairman and CEO, for our 2009 INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS Global Report and get here the full edition now on sale.

Our first annual world report about INNOVATIONS IN MAGAZINES is almost ready to go to the printer.

Like the INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS Global Report that we have done since 1999 for the World Association of Newspapers, this new one was requested by the International Federation of Periodical Publications (FIPP) in London.

INNOVATION’s John Wilpers and Juan Senor are the co-editors of this new report that will be presented in Berlin at the third FIPP Digital Magazine Media Conference, the Digital Innovators Summit, that will take place at the Deutsche Telekom Conference Center in Berlin, Germany, on 1-2 March 2010.

The conference is hosted by FIPP along with the association of German magazine publishers, VDZ.

The 100-page report will be available in print and pdf versions after the conference in our website.

Thomaz Souto Correa and Juan Caño, INNOVATION directors and very well known magazine-gurus were the main contributing editors of this new project.

Another fascinating special issue.

Covering serious topics.

With an unique presentation.

Plenty of creativity.

And fun.

This what makes Libération controversial and different.

Keeping and improving day by day the INNOVATION’s new editorial and graphic formula.

Libé at its best.

(Thanks to La Buena Prensa)

Days before the launch of the Apple iPad, INNOVATION started this Facebook Page about Digital Narratives.

The new Page is a showcase of the best digital narratives and digital news design for the iPad, mobile apps, tablets and websites as selected by Pedro Monteiro and Juan Senor.

You can subscribe here.