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• At WaPo: Storytelling for Each Specific Platform

  

  At The Washington Post, storytelling that is specific to each platform Perhaps it is owner’s Jeff Bezos’ influence, or... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• BuzzFeed: the Japanese Edition Has Arrived

  

  It's a joint agreement between BuzzFeed and Yahoo Japan. We shall see how the popular site fares in this foreign incursion. Social media habits are different... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• It’s VR for Los Angeles Times

  

  One of my predictions for 2016 lists more virtual reality experiments, that is why I am happy to see that The Los Angeles Times has given immersive journalism... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Year of (more and Better ) Video

  

  It is the question nobody should ask anymore: is video important to news consumers? Of course. Video should be central to any newsroom’s digital strategy. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• LaPresse Says Adieu to Print and Banks on Tablet Edition

  

  It was a death announced for its print edition: execs of the French-Canadian daily, La Presse, are banking that their successful tablet edition will be enough... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Forget the MacAttack, It is the TypeAttack

  

  It is all about boxes for McDonald's along with the use of big type as part of its newly designed packaging. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Tributes to David Bowie

  

  David Bowie, the so called Picasso of Pop, has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 69. We like how these publications paid tribute to this iconic and eve... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• ePapers Continue to Resonate with Readers

  

  New Visiolab report provides us with more information about the behavior of ePaper readers. In 2016, it is the year to pay attention to those ePaper editions,... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Mobile First Begins as a State of Mind

  

  With the new year comes the need for mobile first strategies to become part of the daily gymnastics of every newsroom. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Create Your Own Serendipity This Year

  Serendipity is one of those words that make the English language unique. It’s hard to find a translation for it in other languages. It’s also difficult to... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• It’s a New Design for Poynter’s Website Today

  

  Take a look at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies website today: it's the launch of a new design with better navigation, new content features and even a... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Those Pictorial Front Pages

  

  It is not just readers who bring their digital mentailty to print. Apparently, designers do as well. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Sustainability of Those Printed Newspapers

  For those who may think 2016 is the year when print makes an exit, ask the folks at The Boston Globe, whose delivery problems have caused major frustration... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Downtown Times Offers a Surprise

  

  It's a new year and, for The New York Times, it apparently begins well in the advertising department. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year

  

  As we pause to celebrate Christmas and New Year, we wish to thank all of you for coming to TheMarioBlog each day. We wish you a healthy, happy and successful... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The New York Times, Virtual Reality and the Movies

  It’s all about storytelling these days, and the platforms for those stories keep increasing in number. Now The New York Times will take its virtual reality to... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• De Correspondent: Here’s How It Should Be

  

  I have only recently discovered De Correspondent, a Dutch online journalism platform that focuses on background, analysis, investigative reporting, and the kind... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Bloomberg Business: How the New Homepage Looks

  

  If your team is discussing the fate of home pages (and many teams are doing so as the year ends), take a look at Bloomberg Business. The future of home pages... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• It’s a New Website Design for Quartz

  

  "Homepages, it turns out, aren’t dead so much as reborn," says Zach Seward of Quartz. And so, the Quartz website is doing just that with a clean, very visual... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Javier Errea: “A Newspaper Cannot Be a Catalog.”

  

  In our Wednesday blog we reviewed Javier Errea’s new book, which is officially launched Dec. 18. The book has been difficult to put down and many ideas are... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH