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• Javier Errea’s Love Affair with Printed Newspapers

  

  It is the Spanish designer Javier Errea's first book and he takes us on a journey around the globe where he has been quite active redesigning newspapers. The... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Headlines That Seduce in the Digital Age

  

  Writing headlines can always be the most interesting part of an editing class—or so it used to be. In the digital age, in the era of quick glance journalism,... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Printed Front Page Still Carries Loudest Voice

  

  This week, for the first time since 1920, The New York Times carried an editorial on its front page. Here is to the power of print. Here is hoping that the... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Give What’s App Attention It Deserves

  

  Publishers reviewing strategies for the new year should spend time considering the popularity of What's App with users. While What's App is not the most media... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Product Development, Innovation Are Key

  

  It is almost the end of 2015 and, while we have made progress on so many fronts concerning a journalistic world where mobile is king, it is not enough. I have... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Add This to My List of Professional Regrets

  So Esquire asks the question (which it proceeds to answer convincingly: Is Martin Baron the best news editor ever? Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Value of Those E-newsletters

  

  Part of the role of curating content for a newspaper or magazine is to promote content. The New York Times seems to be doing this well and I, as a subscriber,... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• It’s The Hindu in Mumbai Already

  

  The well-respected Indian newspaper, The Hindu, has made its incursion into the media-crowded market of Mumbai. Here are some pages from that first edition. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  It is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States and we pause to spend time with our family and to give thanks for our many blessings. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Smartphones Will Continue to Be the Media Story Next Year

  

  It's no surprise: the majority of us is getting information from smartphones. If you live in Singapore, it is 91% of you, with Spain and Ireland coming a close... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Smartphones Will Continue to Be the Media Story of 2016

  

  It's no surprise: the majority of us is getting information from smartphones. If you live in Singapore, it is 91% of you, with Spain and Ireland coming a close... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Hindu: Making Incursion in New Market Mumbai

  

  The Hindu's new edition in Mumbai will be out on November 28. The Editor of The Hindu, Dr. Malini Parthasarathy, characterizes it as "the most ambitious project... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Details Magazine Closing: Men’s Magaziines at the Crossroads?

  

  Condé Nast will stop publishing Details magazine at the end of the year. Yet, the magazine still had a circulation of about 560,000. Did Conde Naste pull the... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Guardian Mobile Innovation: Small Screens, Frequency

  

  Here is one "newsroom lab" we will be keeping an eye on. The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab wants to experiment with news on phones. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Facebook’s Instant Articles: How to Lure the Masses

  

  They are easy to download. They put articles and information out there where the masses congregate. They are Facebook’s Instant Articles. And now we know tha... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Cultivating Those Loyal Subscribers

  Subscribers are getting a lot of attention this day, as they should. This week, at the Tow Center Conference, Journalism + Silicon Valley, at Columbia... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Paris Carnage: The Front Pages Tell a Story of Horror

  

  It’s not something that we like to do, but it is sad that we tend to do this more often these days: to display front pages of newspapers covering a terrorist ac... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Journalism + Silicon Valley: The Takeaways

  

  The centerpiece of Thursday's Journalism + Silicon Valley was the effect of social media in the practice of journalism today. Speaker after speaker, panel afte... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Today at Columbia: Journalism + Silicon Valley

  I will be part of a panel today at Columbia University's Tow Center (School of Journalism). The program is titled Journalism + Silicon Valley and it explores ho... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Daily Mail: Gives Digital Users a Choice

  

  We like this idea and apparently do millions of users of the UK’s Daily Mail. Now, readers who visit the site on mobile are offered the option to land on the... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH