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• Garcia Media and GateHouse Media

  "We at García Media are happy to have this opportunity to collaborate with the talented team at GateHouse Media"—Mario R. García Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Travel Magazines in Print: High Flying and Adored

  

  It is what the Financial Times describes as an "unlikely boom" for travel magazines in print. Who would have known? It is their web editions that are creating... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Watches: When Size Does Matter

  

  Supersize watches are all the rave: According to menswear stylist and writer Tom Stubbs, the vogues for huge watch faces (those at least 57 mm across) has... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• New Apple Watch Sport App from Austria’s Kronen Zeitung

  

  For readers of Austria's Kronen Zeitung, a good way to keep sports scores and information right on their wrist via this new smartwatch app. Read all about it. Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Mario Hanging Sign That Says “Gone to the Beach”

  

  It'a that time of the year and I will take the first of my three short summer vacations in the coming days. The blog will return June 22. Until then, enjoy... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Don’t Give up on Your Apple Watch, Ms. Friedman

  

  Vanessa Friedman, a writer for the Style section of The New York Times, has recently declared that she is breaking off with her Apple Watch because she simply... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• That’s Entertainment: Reading E-paper Editions Above the Clouds

  

  It’s ironic that the same week that I wrote extensively about the popularity of e-papers, Lufthansa has introduced its new Entertainment on board featuring... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• In Turkey: the +1T Newspaper Days Celebrates Design

  

  It is the 10th edition of the +1T Newspaper Days event in Istanbul, sponsored by Zaman newspaper. More than 400 students and aspiring news designers listen to... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Paperless La Presse in the Horizon

  

  Montreal's La Presse's tablet edition has been the subject of many seminar sessions globally, with its publisher recounting stories of success for his... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Those European E-papers Are Hot

  

  Nobody doubts the appeal of those e-paper editions. Yes, readers love flipping through the pages of their favorite newspaper while reading them on a tablet or... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Noticeable Moments in Print

  

  In the midst of conducting several workshops devoted to how we present and consume news on the Apple Watch, or dealing with the two tempos of lean forward and... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• France’s Liberation: One More Reinvention

  

  Lilbaration, or Libé, as it is affectionately referred to in France, has undergone yet another reinvention. We at Garcia Media were once one of the consulting... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• What We Can Learn from Those Newspapers of Another Era

  

  With the arrival of smartwatches, such as the Apple Watch, we have officially entered the era of "at a glance journalism". It is the type of storytelling that... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Scoops in the Era of Caitlyn Jenner

  

  What constitutes a scoop (in the old definition of the term) when we have 24/7 news cycles with the audience universally connected to us every waking hour? A... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• What About E-papers? Readers Are Now Reading Them on Various Platforms

  

  No question about it: traditional newspaper readers—and there are many of them still around—love e-papers. The Scandinavians tend to produce them with more... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Smartwatches and News Workshop: Some Takeaways

  

  It was a historic event, a workshop devoted to smartwatches and news, with participants actually looking at breaking news and preparing the content and visuals... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Roger Black: Digging into the Boxes as His Memoir Comes to Life

  

  I felt as if I was popping out of a chapter (or two) of the new Roger Black memoir this week. First, I had a great dinner with my long time friend and much... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Südkurier: Getting Ready to Celebrate Its 70th Birthday

  

  The German daily, one of our Garcia Media projects, prepares for a big party June 26 to celebrate 70 years of uninterrupted publication, serving the south of... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Dreaming of Designs for Future Cuban Newspapers

  

  This week The Wall Street Journal has published a piece about the efforts that I have undertaken with two extremely talented friends, also Cuban Americans, to... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The End of Print? Don’t Put a Date on It

  

  So USA Today's editor predicts that there may not be a print edition of his newspaper in five to six years. The Washington Post's owner, Jeff Bezos, has tip toe... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH