TAKEAWAY: A sampling of pages from Colombia’s El Tiempo shows the evolution of the rethinking introduced October 3. PLUS: The bi-monthly magazine, Big City, has published a special edition saluting 9780 victims of the Stalin era. With a simple but dramatic page design, Big City gets its point across.
Recent front pages of El Tiempo
Section fronts of the Debes Leer and Debes Hacer section
Several of you have inquired about the El Tiempo project and how its radical rethinking, which launched a new look and content organization Oct. 3, has evolved.
To that effect, I have asked Beiman Pinilla, design director at El Tiempo, to send me some recent pdfs to share with you. He tells me that the process gets easier each day in the newsroom, and that reader acceptance continues to be at high levels five weeks after the introduction of a concept that totally changed how content flows in the newspaper.
As you may recall (see links below), we went for a three track organization of content: Debes Saber (what you must know), Debes Leer (what you must read) and Debes Hacer (what you must do), and all content is now channeled through those sections, each color coded—-blue, green, orange.
We will continue to update you from time to time as the visual and editorial elements of the project evolve.
To read our other posts about El Tiempo’s new concept
El Tiempo launches new concept today
https://www.garciamedia.com/blog/articles/el_tiempo_launches_new_concept_today
El Tiempo :selling the concept to editors, readers, advertisers
https://www.garciamedia.com/blog/articles/el_tiempo_selling_the_concept_to_editors_readers_advertisers
El Tiempo at 100: a fresh proposition journalistically, visually, digitally
https://www.garciamedia.com/blog/articles/el_tiempo_at_100_a_fresh_proposition_journalistically_visually_digitally
Big City mag, big special edition
Notice the faces of some members of this family have been covered with color ink. Surviving relatives did not wish to be identified as related to those killed, for fear of retaliation against them. So, I am told, it was customary for members of a family to erase or obliterate the faces of relatives who had been victims of Stalin’s government
The lists of 9780 names of victims of the Stalin era.
Several pages present photos of relatives who tell the story of losing family members during the Stalin Era (1928-53)
The first thing that caught my eye when I looked at a cover of this magazine was the photograph where what seemed like a family portrait appeared, but where someone had also taken color markers to draw over the faces of four of the persons in the photo.
Upon inquiring, I was told that this was a special Big City edition honoring those who died or disappeared during the Stalin era. Reportedly, more than 700,000 citizens died during this period, 1928-53; it is said that the majority were killed during 1937.
The magazine put the names of 9780 of them throughout the magazine, then included narratives and photos of surviving relatives of these victims, many holding photographs of their dear ones, and telling the sad stories .
Big City is distributed free in Moscow every two weeks.
Of special interest:
The Wall Street Journal and Samsung tablet edition:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/11/app-review-wall-street-journal-tablet-edition-for-android/
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Is iPad’s First Real Rival
http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20101110/samsung-galaxy-tab-tablet-review/
It’s a Tablet. It’s Gorgeous. It’s Costly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/technology/personaltech/11pogue.html?_r=1?ner=rss&emc=rss
Meet Intersect, where storytelling, time, and location get all mashed up
http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/11/meet-intersect-where-storytelling-time-and-location-get-all-mashed-up/