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• Happy Birthday, iPad. Hard to Believe You Are Only Five Years Old.

  

  It seems as if you have been around forever and many of us wonder how we ever survived our day without you. This anniversary prompts us to ask: what is the... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Story First Philosophy is the Way to Go

  In a recent interview with Germany's Spiegel, Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times, made it clear that in his newsroom, it is the story first, an... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Blizzard in the Front Pages

  

  It has been called a "monster" storm, and, as we now know, all that heavy snow that was predicted for New York City, did not make it to the city at all. But... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Add Virtual Reality to Your Bag of Storytelling Techniques

  Storytelling just became more interested---and engaging. Don't just take your audience to the scene of the story, but also inmerse them into it, as in face to... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The New Second Front Page

  

  At Spain's ABC daily newspaper, an interesting concept where there is one up front page one, followed by a more traditional Page One which is actually Page... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Gulf News of Dubai Gets Guantanamo Exclusive

  

  Dubai's Gulf News becomes the first Middle East newspaper to be allowed into the Guantanamo jail. The result? A multimedia story across platforms that... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Training the Next Generation of Mobile Journalists

  

  When my students and I toasted the end of the semester in May 2014 at Columbia University, I was proud to be heard saying that we had produced a good group of... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Suddenly: the Media Quintet is a Closer Reality

  

  I am delighted to announce my involvement with two students from Arhus (Denmark) University as they embark on a project to explore the potential for news... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Less Than Daily Printed Product: is This the Year for Take Off?

  

  I am not shy about stating it: the day will come when there will not be a printed newspaper delivered Monday-Friday. A robust weekend printed product chock... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Editing Your Impulses When Creating a New Product

  

  It's difficult sometimes for those of us creating a new product not to get too ambitious in our efforts to create something different. When is different NOT so... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Four Weekend Lean Back Reads If Your Time Allows.

  Here are four pieces that will provide for a good lean back and meditative weekend reading experience. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• La Presse and New Tablet Feature All Devoted to Films

  

  It's been over a year since the Montreal newspaper, La Presse, gambled on a daily tablet edition, La Presse+ that would be free. By all accounts, it is a... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Latest Curated Edition from NYT Adds to Lean Back Tempo

  

  It's curation at its best, and it comes just when the weekend starts, a reminder of the week that was, and perhaps of great articles and coverage we may have... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Our Hat off to the Charlie Hebdo Team: New Issue is out

  

  Barely a week after a senseless massacre in which many of the Charlie Hebdo 's team was gunned down as they held an editorial meeting, a new issue of the... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The New York Times Sunday Edition: Print Versus Digital

  

  I describe it as one of life’s simplest pleasures, especially on a wintry Sunday morning: to curl up with a copy of the printed New York Times. What’s so... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Visual Storytelling Made Easy

  

  A recent edition of The New York Times' The Upshot demonstrates that telling the story visually is often the best way to go: simple, direct and functional. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Paris Terror on Page One

  

  At least 12 people have been killed after gunmen stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, in Paris on Wednesday. I take a look at... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• CNN.com: a Polished, Functional Redesign

  

  It’s a new look and a more efficient navigational system for CNN’s website. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• A Genius Chef’s Food for Thought About Creativity

  

  While I never visited his ever so famous (and now closed) restaurant, El Bulli, in Barcelona, I have always tried to follow that genius of haut cuisine named... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• A Robust TIME Magazine Issue

  

  Remember when those news weekly magazines were robust and by holding them in your hand you felt like you were in for a great read? It's been a long time since w... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH