Innovations in Newspapers 2010

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:41:41 +0100

The 2010 edition of Innovations in Newspapers IS ALREADY HERE, with plenty of new and fresh ideas.

NEW NARRATIVES

New digital storytelling opportunities.

BUSINESS INTEGRATION

INNOVATION’s recommendations for modernizing marketing and sales structures to meet multimedia needs.

NEWSROOMS

How to transform a linear, paper-centric newsroom into a fully integrated digital news engine™.

NEWSROOM INTEGRATION

El Tiempo’s across-the-board newsroom integration.

INNOVATION

The story of ‘i’, a new Portuguese daily that went from launch to European Newspaper of the Year in six months.

PASSION BUILDS AUDIENCES

Sports newspapers: a bright spot in the newspaper landscape.

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

Size doesn’t matter when it comes to investigative journalism.

SOCIAL MEDIA

The growing relevance of social media.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

10 recommendations for newspaper IT departments.

TABLETS

12 concepts for designing for the iPad and tablets.

READERS’ CLUBS

New revenue streams provided by newspapers’ brand extensions through Readers’ Clubs.

FAMILY BUSINESSES

The challenges facing family-owned information companies.

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Oxford Tablet Summit - Key Messages

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:13:07 +0100

Some key messages from the Oxford Tablet Summit by INNOVATION

• Paper will stay. It will never die. But the business model and content proposition has changed. Tablets offer publishers an opportunity to recapture the reading of a defined product, with defined pagination, frequency and quality. Online you browse, on tablets people read.

• We have to reinvent the way we tell stories. It’s the journalism, not the platform. News you can read, watch and touch.

• Produce more for those who pay and less for those who do not pay.

• Paper as premium, tablet as premium, online and mobile as mass medium. Haute couture vs pret à porter.

• INNOVATION value equation: Who, What, Where, When – comodity – free; How, Why and What’s Next – premium – paid.

• Cooperation is not integration. Digital is the only multimedia platform. Change from media companies to information engines.

• The iPad cannot save the news media industry, but the news media industry might just save the iPad.

• We live in an age of constant digital content distractions. The iPad is the world’s greatest distraction. But strong content can combat distraction. Newspapers and magazines have that content to focus attention and help people disconnect and get back to reading a publication from beginning to end, rather than just browsing.

• We have to promote the integration of journalist, graphic and technology profiles inside the newsroom in order to empower the possibilities of our everyday work.

• Become applications creators, stress flexibility, enhance the user experience, organize your IT staff to deal with the day-today, expand the technical staff’s horizons.

• Tablets are one step more in the evolution to a multiplatform brand. We need a multimedia newsroom to create content for the new formats.

• CMS systems are the multimedia ‘printing plants’ of the future.

Are you ready for the change? Let’s check:

1. How can you handle new platforms when your newsroom still thinks print first?

2. How can you handle new platforms when your website people still think online first?

3. How can you handle new platforms when print and web newsrooms are still not integrated?

4. How can you handle new platforms when your sales people still don’t sell multimedia packages?

5. How can you handle new platforms when your journalists and managers don’t talk to each other?

6. How can you handle new platforms when your IT people want to control everything?

7. How can you handle new platforms when your visual journalists are still monomedia storytellers?

8. How can you handle new platforms when your journalists are not able to create unique, relevant and compelling content?

9. How can you handle new platforms when you are not organized as a 24/7 multimedia operation?

10. How can you handle new platforms when you don’t spend money on research, training and innovation?

• We have few storytellers able to write code (and we need more coders willing to tell stories).

• Good apps are non-linear, you can access content from anywhere in the app.

• Good apps don’t require the user to learn, if you need instructions then it’s poorly designed.

• Content is everything, designing for the tablet begins with sketching the outline of an article.

• Good storytelling is all about the diferent layers of information that your readers will peel through your articles.

• New digital narratives and new grammar: Each piece of information must take it’s place in a chain that makes the article an amazing storytelling experience for your reader. Most important, ideas. Finding the best way to tell a story.

I am a MOJO

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:03:29 +0100

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The sound of Newspapers

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:20:01 +0100

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Illustration revolution

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:32:41 +0100

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Revista Unica, a big hit

Mon, 17 May 2010 14:27:37 +0100

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Newspapers have a tendency to behave like the Phoenix

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:00:10 +0100

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Can top quality local bloggers help rescue newspapers?

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:27:09 +0100

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Raw pontential is irresistible, but current reality lags

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:55:23 +0100

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How to sell and price newspapers ads for the future

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:49:20 +0100

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Poll

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:56:32 +0100

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Tablet Summit 2010

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:03:07 +0100

WHERE: In Oxford

WHEN: May 17th & 18th

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How we can help with your iPad

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:05:06 +0100

If your organisation is considering what to do to have a popular and profitable iPad presence, INNOVATION can help.

We are already developing the first iPad products with a radical new content architecture, navigation and design

Digital News Design

INNOVATION is a pioneer in the creation and development of digital narratives and visual journalism, with decades of award-winning concepts, designs and products.

We have been commissioned the development of two major global newspaper iPad versions as well as three leading consumer magazines.

We have put together our best team of visual editors, multimedia journalists, designers and developers to expand our Digital News Design team so they can help our clients launch new iPad products in 2010.

This team is made up of the winners of ‘Best Newspaper Concept and Design’ in Europe and the World for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The team has a demonstrable record of success with its product conception and creation – success measured in notable increases in circulation and sales for each award-winning project.

You Cannot Pour Old Wine Into New Bottles

We believe you cannot pour old wine into new bottles. We believe the iPad is a new medium, a new platform which requires mastering and producing new digital narratives. The iPad and tablets require a new journalistic grammar, new workflows and innovative storytelling techniques.

Newsroom Integration

Producing content for the iPad also requires a new newsroom organisation where integrated teams can produce quality content without duplicating resources, overwhelming staff and diluting quality. We are world leaders in the integration and design of newsrooms and we have developed workflows and organisations that can help you do it all – including an iPad.

Business Unusual

We also believe, the iPad is business unusual and it requires a well-defined model for paying for its content. Our management team have developed methods and guidelines on how to get consumers to pay for iPad content from the very beginning at price-sensitive costs and with clear payment methods beyond iTunes.

If indeed you want to enter and embrace the iPad age, INNOVATION can help.

Innovations In Magazines

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:49:48 +0100

If ever there was a time to shake things up, it's now.

INNOVATION Media Consulting presents the Innovations in Magazines 2010 World Report: a look at the top magazines and publishers, and what they're doing not only to stay ahead of the curve, but to set it. While some struggling under the pressure of a tough economy, others are thriving because of it.

Over the past year, INNOVATION has sought out the brightest in the business, who are not only weathering the storm but developing new content and revenue streams to ensure their good health into the 21st century.

Here, you'll find new marketing strategies and new technologies. You'll see multimedia used like never before, and you'll see emerging forms of journalism and content. But most of all, you'll see where the magazine industry is headed. Publishers are getting creative and by blending future technology with old-fashioned hard work, they're making huge strides in moving the industry forward. The future of magazines is indeed bright, and in this first annual Innovations in Magazines World Report, we'll show you why.

The Innovations in Magazines 2010 World Report was first presented on March 1, 2010, by its editors and INNOVATION consultants, Juan Señor and John Wilpers, at the Digital Innovators' Summit in Berlin. The study is co-sponsored by INNOVATION and FIPP.

Click here to read the editor's note and take a look at the table of contents.

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The Community Newsroom

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:42:55 +0100

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How to organize for a multimedia world

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:45:50 +0100

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Innovations in Newspapers 2009

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:51:53 +0100

Read here, free, the Foreword written by Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation’s Chairman and CEO, for our 2009 INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS Global Report.

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INNOVATION AND THE IPAD

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:58:17 +0100

As of today INNOVATION begins the development of the first iPad newspaper app with a radical new content architecture, navigation and design.

We will launch it in a few months time. We have put together our best team of visual editors, multimedia journalists, designers and developers to expand our Digital News Design team so they can access the SDK code for iPads and begin the creation of the first original newspaper iPad.

New Apple Tablet

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:36:37 +0100

Juan Antonio Giner, president and founder of INNOVATION has started an only 20-day long blog in Spanish about the launch of the new Apple tablet.

i, Best european national newspaper of the year

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:33:00 +0100

A few minutes ago, the 11th European Newspaper Awards were announced and, i, the fantastic new paper from Lisbon is the big winner.

The European Newspaper Awards are organized by Norbert Küpper from Meerbusch (Germany) with the journalism magazines “Medium Magazin” from Frankfurt/Main, “Der Österreichische Journalist” from Salzburg (Austria) and “Schweizer Journalist” from Wilen/Wil (Switzerland).

A few weeks ago i was awarded as one the best designed newspaper of Portugal and Spain of the year.

Now i gets this European Newspaper Award.

This is not just a design contest.

The European Award includes “design and concept” and i is unique in both areas.

The Jury statement said;

“i” persuaded the jury through its special innovative approach. Newly established, the newspaper can start full of energy. It is precisely this that makes “informação” fascinating in all fields: Photography, page layout, alternative types of journalistic articles and innovative sections – completely focusing on the power of new ideas. All in all, a newspaper is evolved quintessentially, an all-round innovation. It almost goes without saying: The homepage www.ionline.pt has a similarly innovative appearance as the printed newspaper.”

INNOVATION’s Javier Errea has won right now more European Newspaper Awards than any other design consultant in the world.

Read here the INNOVATION MANIFESTO FOR i.

See here and here, a large selection of its best pages.

And here you can find a interview with its Art Director, Nick Mrozowski.

Yes, i is becoming the most innovative newspaper done by the INNOVATION team in the last 20 years.

A real revolution.

A needed revolution.

Launched just six months ago during the worst economic times…

A lesson for the newspaper industry.

And here are the real winners.

A young newsroom.

With energetic team of editors and managers.

And a brave company, Grupo Lena, investing in times of crisis.

The Award will be presented to i during the 2010 European Newspaper Congress (Vienna, April, 25-27).

(Picture by Joachim Blum)

New Libe 'chic again' and 'cool again’

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:22:00 +0100

Paris (France)

And almost one year ago, the new board of directors of LIBE, headed by Edouard de Rothschild, hired INNOVATION to produce a full graphic redesign of the paper with a new editorial formula developed after several meetings in Paris with Laurent Joffrin and his team.

L’info est un combat is the new slogan for the launch campaign to emphasise that LIBE is back to quality, punchy, investigative and non-conformist journalism of the politically incorrect.

Thanks to LIBE and thanks to INNOVATION team for your dedication and enthusiasm: Juan Antonio Giner (UK) and Juan Señor (UK), Javier Errea (Spain), Antonio Martin (Spain), Pablo Errea (Spain), Andrew Jaspan (Australia), Thomaz Souto Correa (Brazil), Juan Caño (Spain), Deborah Withey (UK) and Sophie Bougneres (France).

"i" The new Portuguese newspaper

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:59:28 +0100

Lisbon (Portugal)

SOJORMEDIA, a regional multimedia group owned by the Lena Group, has launched a new quality national newspaper in Lisbon, and INNOVATION has been the one in charge to develop this new project.

The INNOVATION consulting team involved in the project: Carlo Campos as Project Manager, Javier Errea as the Chief Design consultant, and Laura Cruz, Miguel Ángel Jimeno, Eduardo Tessler, Jorge Heili and Chiqui Esteban.