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Dec. 7th It’s all about climate change: how newspapers report the Copenhagen conference

Updated Monday, Dec. 7, 08:17 EST

The blog will be updated throughout the day as I receive your pages covering the UN Climate Change Conference of Copenhagen. Send me your pdfs to

TAKEAWAY: It is one of the most serious and important issues all countries deal with these days.  Anyone who has seen the recent film 2012 will probably be paying close attention to the proceedings at the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference opening today in Copenhagen and running through Dec. 18.  We show you some pages covering that conference and hope to receive more from you in the days ahead.

Perfect climate for good, explanatory graphics

Mastheads of more than 50 newspapers worldwide participating in The Guardian’s initiative of one same front page editorial on climate change

Front page of today’s The Guardian of London: leading the initiative for newspapers worldwide to use same leader article about climate change on page one

London’s The Guardian has come up with an editorial initiative to have the same front page editorial about the importance of climate change published in newspapers across the globe.  Today, more than 50 newspapers worldwide join in publishing a leader article on climate change right on Page One.

Read all about how The Guardian’s project on climate change came about, and we will show you some of those pages here.

Among the titles taking part are two Chinese papers – the Economic Observer and the Southern Metropolitan – and India’s second largest English-language paper, The Hindu (a Garcia Media client).

Some of the world’s best known papers, such as Le Monde, El Pais, Russia’s Novaya Gazeta and the Toronto Star, are also on board, as is Dubai’s Gulf News, which you can see below.

The leader was the work of a team of Guardian writers and editors and went through three drafts to arrive at a text that satisfied all the editors involved.

 

Front page of today’s Gulf News of Dubai: joining more than 50 other dailies with front page editorial

 

 

Two inside pages from Dubai’s Gulf News today in special package about the Copenhagen conference on climate change

 

India’s The Hindu joins more than 50 newspapers worldwide today with page one editorial on climate change

Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung

Germany’s Tageszeitung published in Berlin. Headline reads: Two Weeks to Save the World

Austria’s Kleine Zeitung

Germany’s Tagesspiegel published in Berlin

It is all green on the front page of Belgium’s DeMorgen today

France’s Liberation

 

Here is front page of Copenhagen’s Politiken with top of the page advance promos to the Climate Conference

 

Argentina’s Clarin, published in Buenos Aires

Germany’s Hamburger Morgenpost published in Hamburg

 

Brazil’s Zero Hora, published in Porto Alegre

Opening page in the Gulf News introduces readers to the UN Climate Change conference

 

Gulf News graphic by Dwynn Ronald Trazo

 

Italy’s La Stampa’s Sunday editions, leading with climate change story

 

The United Nation’s Climate Change Conference that opens today Dec. 7 in Copenhagen and runs thru Dec. 18 is attracting hundreds of ministers and officials from around the globe.  At least 100 world leaders have said they are joining the forum, including US President Barack Obama, who will be present on the last day of the conference, Dec. 18.

This is a story where informational graphics can contribute immensely to explain the intricate climate patterns and how this situation affects all of us. I am hoping to see high caliber graphics and will love to show them here, including animated graphics.

I am interested in how newspapers cover the significant event, and the first two pages to arrive come from Dubai’s Gulf News.  Design Director Miguel A. Gomez sends these pages and looks for your comments.  The graphic that appeared in the Dec. 6 edition of GN is by staff artist Dwynn Ronald Trazo

Please share any interesting coverage/graphics of this UN Climate Change conference that you think our readers may enjoy viewing here.

 

Romanians elect a president

Front page of Bucharest’s Romania Libera

I am in Bucharest first part of this week working with the daily Romania Libera.

Here, it was political change—-and not global warming—- that was in everyone’s mind. This country celebrated elections Sunday, Dec. 6, the day I arrived.  Polls closed late, and when the editors closed the edition of RL there was no clear sign of who the winner would be in this very close election.  I think the treament of this page one, with the names of the candidates and numbers available at closing is clever.

Of course, the website updated constantly and had such traffic that it crashed, but readers were constantly glued to the website as editors prepared fresh stories and updated the election results.

In the end,  center right incumbent Traian Basescu, seeking a second five-year term, defeated Social Democratic challenger Mircea Geoana by some 80000 votes. 

Mario Garcia Jr discusses “tablets”

Mario Garcia Jr. discusses “tablets” in his blog just posted. 

Titled “Thou shalt not get this “tablet” thing wrong”, Mario Jr. writes about tablets and similar gadgets:

…. make no mistake, something is coming, something that will change (once again) they way we experience media and the way we engage readers and users.

Go here for Mario Jr’s blog entry:
http://garciainteractive.com/blog/view/49/

TheMarioBlog post #432

Posted by Dr. Mario R. Garcia on December 07, 2009