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• The Quartz Homepage Gains Renewed Attention

  

  For many publishers, the home page is not what it used to be. More often, readers are coming into a newspaper or magazine website via social media (read: the... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• This New York Times’ Virtual Reality is Fun

  

  Storytelling generally got a big push forward this weekend as The New York Times unveiled its virtual reality example via The New York Times Magazine. Here we... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Zeit Magazin Now in English, Too

  

  It is the sister publication of that great German weekly, Die Zeit, and now Zeit Magazin publishes in English, with a complilation of the best that publication... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Virtual Reality at the New York Times Starting Today

  

  It’s virtual reality for The New York Times starting today with a special story about children displaced because of war in their countries. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Instant Articles: Story Structures for at a Glance Journalism

  

  The article is moving up front and center. It is the point of entry for so many of our readers. Editors and designers are beginning to pay the article its due. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• For Traditional Newsrooms: a World Without Print Legacy?

  It was a note about Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat. The editor mentioned that “ we would be better at digital if we didn’t have to produce the paper.” Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Mobile Storytelling Strategies at Dow Jones

  Erin Sparling, head of newsroom development at Dow Jones, talks about storytelling strategies for the creation, curation and syndication of stories on mobile... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Surprise: Good Design Stimulates the Brain

  

  We knew it all along: the brain likes good design! So, how about those chaotic designs in some very successful titles? Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Unzipping the News

  

  Seeing is believing. You have heard about the front page as the map to the journey? The front page as a place where you seduce and invite the reader to come... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Tablet Discussion in MediaShift Podcast Today

  I will be part of a discussion today via a MediaShift podcast at 13:30 ET. This segment is titled Tablet News Apps Stagnate as Smartphone Apps Boom. Hope you... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• This Movie and the News Coming to a Marriott Hotel Near You

  

  It is a movie studio and even a “marketing newsroom” for the Marriott Hotels as they add storytelling to their business. Everyone wants to be a storyteller in... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• “Today, It Must Be the App with Something Extra!”

  

  In the wake of the discontinuation of the three Postmedia evening tablet editions for The Ottawa Citizen, The Montreal Gazette and The Calgary Herald, i have... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• What Next for Tablet Editions?

  

  Sometimes the news hurts just a little. Sometimes in comes in a triple dose. Ouch! You mean to tell me that those sparkling, content rich Postmedia tablet... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Espen Egil Hansen: Man of a Thousand Daily Front Pages

  

  I say it often: Espen Egil Hansen, CEO /Editor in Chief of Norway’s Aftenposten is one of the most progressive and inventive newspaper editors in the globe... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Frequency and Retention. Amen.

  

  I have been saying it for over a year: we need to create newsroom environments in which editors realize that the notion of frequency has changed for a newspaper... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Aftenposten: Setting That Inspires Creativity

  

  Visiting the Norwegian daily Aftenposten this week and it is my first time in their new building in the center of Oslo where they moved 15 months ago. It is... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Obituaries of the Times: an Insider’s Look

  

  It never fails: whenever I sit on a focus group anywhere around the world readers confess that obituaries are among the top favorite topics found in a newspaper... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Fonts and Nadine Chahine in the Times

  

  We first worked with the talented type designer Nadine Chahine when we were invited to redesign An Nahar, Lebanon's leading daily. What a surprise to read... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Bild to Ad Blockers: You Are Not Welcome

  Axel Springer has banned readers who use ad blockers from its Bild tabloid website, stepping up a fight by publishers to stop online advertising revenues being... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Insider: the Story Behind the Story

  

  The New York Times now tells us the story behind the stories via Insider, a richly populated add-on to the newspaper's subscription with stories about the... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH