In Osnabrück: some still read on the wall!

What a happy sight this week as I made a visit to the newsroom of the Osnabruecker Zeitung in northern Germany. The newspaper is part of NOZ Digital/Medien, one of the largest regional newspaper groups in Germany.

This is a newspaper that I redesigned (print edition) in 2006, and now have been working with the team for almost two years on digital transformation.

I enjoyed seeing that the OZ still displays all the pages of the printed newspaper on glass windows, and even happier to see a couple of readers reading page by page on the wall. Curiously, when we left for lunch, there was a man reading, and he was still there, almost at the end of the edition, three windows over, when we returned one hour later.

This is, of course, a practice that I have witnessed in many parts of Latin America and Asia, and, years ago, in some European newspapers. Happy to see that there is still writing on the wall.

Here is a vintage image of a reader reading in the wall in Latin America:

Listen to my chat with Tyler Brulé in Monocle 24 Radio’s The Stack

This episode of Monocle’s The Stack was recorded live during the launch of my book, The Story, in Zurich, November 20 before a live audience. Tyler Brulé and I talk about the state of the media today, the makings of The Story, as well as the meaning of doing print happily in the mobile first era. Tune in here:

https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-stack/378/play/

From Monocle Weekend

THE INTERROGATOR / EDITION 30

https://monocle.com/minute/2019/09/21/

Mario García

Editorial consultant Mario García has advised the most important newsrooms in the world on design – and how best adapt to a digital transition. More than 700 publications, from The Wall Street Journal to the South China Morning Post, have received his strategic steer. Other than being an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, he also runs his own consultancy firm: García Media. Nowadays his speciality is how digital devices influence narrative structure and consumption; his latest book, The Story, was written specifically to be read on a phone. Here, though, he confesses to a few analogue pleasures.

What they are saying about The Story!

The Story is here!

You can now download my new mobile storytelling book, The Story, from Apple Books at $6.99
This is Book 1 of a Trilogy! The other two books coming soon.
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-story-volume-i/id1480169411

The newspaper remains the most powerful source of storytelling on the planet. But technology threatens its very existence. To survive, the Editor must transform, adapt, and manage the newsroom in a new way. Order The Story by Mario Garcia, chief strategist for the redesign of over 700 newspapers around the world.

My chat with in Monocle Radio

Listen to my chat in Monocle Radio’s The Stack: Latest episode‘The Face’ and ‘The Story’:We welcome the return of the print version of ‘The Face’ and talk to legendary newspaper designer Mario Garcia about his latest book, ‘The Story’.
https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-stack/368/play/

My interview with CNN en Español

I was a guest in the program Encuentro, hosted by Guillermo Arduino daily at CNN en Español. The interview was about how we read on mobile devices and my introduction of my new mobile storytelling book, The Story, to a Spanish-language audience.

García: Si tienes una buena historia, la gente la va a leer