Updated Friday, March 20, 11:29 am EST
The six-part series is about The Future of Capitalism, and the visual extends, one page at a time, over the run of the entire series.
Above we show the six pages of a series titled “The Future of Capitalism” published by the Gulf News over a six-day period in its business section.
The illustration work is by senior illustrator Ramachandra Babu. According to Gulf News Design Director, Miguel Angel Gomez:
We try to use this technique when we map out a single topic series of articles. We feel that if the illustration is planned over the entire life of the series, then we can project it visually to say more than if we use a different image each day. This was a story from the Financial Times that we were bringing to our newspaper. It was not illustrated like we did in the original FT treatment. We sat down, planned the overall look and feel of the piece, then came up with the idea of a rollercoaster. It worked.”
One wonders if the readers actually get to put all the six pages side by side, as we have done here. If one does, then Babu’s illiustration comes across as a strong, meaningul part of the storytelling process here.
The Monocle Weekly: Mario in the Tyler Brulé radio show
Sunday’s The Monocle Weekly radio show is devoted to the future of news; Tyler Brulé‘s guests discuss the end of the Seattle P-I, the future of network news
On the heels of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s final printed edition, Tyler Brulé devotes his weekly Monocle Radio show to the future of newspapers. I was honored to be one of the guests.
For those interested to listen: the program airs live this Sunday, March 22, at 12:00 CET and is downloadable on iTunes as The Monocle Weekly and is available to listen to on Monocle’s website, www.monocle.com.
This week’s show is definitely a ‘state of the media industry’ special and it includes a conversation with the Senior VP for news at ABC, who discusses the future of the network nightly newscast.
At TIME Magazine: an experiment on the “made-to-order magazine” takes off
We have often referred here to the “unbundling of the newspaper” in a sort of iTunes strategy where one selects what article or section of the newspaper one wishes to read, then pays for that, and not the rest of the offerings available.
Now, TIME Magazine has announced that it is experimenting with a customized magazine that combines reader-selected sections from eight publications as it tries to mimic in printed form the personalized news feeds that have become popular on the Internet. The experiment is closely linked to one advertising partner, Toyota Motor Corp., and particularly for the Lexus 2010 RX sport utility vehicle.
Called “mine,” the five-issue, 10-week experiment allows readers to pick five titles from the eight subsidiaries of Time Warner and American Express: Time, Sports Illustrated, Food & Wine, Real Simple, Money, In Style, Golf, and Travel + Leisure.
The magazine is free, but the print edition is limited to the first 31,000 respondents, while an online version is available for another 200,000. If interested, go sign up at http://www.timeinc.com/mine, with the first issue to be shipped in the mail in early April,
Complete International Herald Tribune article:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/18/america/Made-to-Order-Magazine.php
Is it all about “me” and “mine”?
It is probably not just purely coincidental that TIME has decided to call its new “made-to-order” magazine experiment “mine”. Read on!
Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, of The New York Times, surely has something going when he tells us, in a column headlined, The Daily Me, that:
….. there’s pretty good evidence that we generally don’t truly want good information — but rather information that confirms our prejudices. We may believe intellectually in the clash of opinions, but in practice we like to embed ourselves in the reassuring womb of an echo chamber.
Kristof argues that this emphasis on our wanting to segregate ourselves into the groups/opinions/clubs of like minded people is the reason that newspapers and network news are suffering, as more people are seeking news not from these traditional platforms, but online, where they can be their own editors and go to sites that agree with their views.
By the way, Kristof confesses that he, too, is guilty of turning to where others agree with his views:
Let me get one thing out of the way: I’m sometimes guilty myself of selective truth-seeking on the Web. The blog I turn to for insight into Middle East news is often Professor Juan Cole’s, because he’s smart, well-informed and sensible — in other words, I often agree with his take. I’m less likely to peruse the blog of Daniel Pipes, another Middle East expert who is smart and well-informed — but who strikes me as less sensible, partly because I often disagree with him.
Don’t we all flock to where we find opinions that we share?
And, by the way, is there a more authentic edition of The Daily Me than, for example, Facebook?
It is here that all of us can be columnists, editorialists, feature writers, photographers and celebrities. Not to mention “weatherman”. Just connected to Facebook to read my friends’ postings, which include:
“so nice to feel the sun on my face, ” “watching the snow fall in Montreal,” “hoping for early spring here,” “saw a lizard outside, behind my kitchen door this morning, could spring be far behind?”
Perhaps this is what newspaper weather pages should have done all along: invite readers to express their Daily Me of the weather. Might not be too late for some.
For entire column:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/opinion/19kristof.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=Nicholas%20D.%20Kristof&st=cse
Alas! Somebody buys the San Diego Union-Tribune!
It is, indeed, good news that one of my favorite U.S. newspapers, the 130-year-old San Diego Union-Tribune, one of the first to use color well, has bucked the trend of the disappearing newspaper, as it has reportedly found a buyer, Platinum Equity, a Beverly Hills private equity firm that specialises in turning around troubled businesses. The Union-Tribune, with a daily circulation of 300,000, was formerly owned by the Copley family.
I share Union-Tribune Editor Karin Winner’s enthusiasm. Here is part of what she told her staffers:
This is terrific news. This is really exciting news,This is a company that really believes in us and the future. This is a company that really wants to see journalism continue. They believe in this region. … They are a strong, healthy company.This to me is the first ‘up’ piece of news ,the first positive piece of news at a time when newspapers are folding and the industry is in decline.”
Readers flocked in with congratulatory comments, and giving thanks to Platinum for saving their newspaper. One of the comments caught my eye:
The paper needs help, but leave the comics ALONE!
It is that sort of passion that readers feel for something in their newspaper that reminds us of the important role they play in people’s lives.
For more information:
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/mar/18/bn18sale105226/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/19/san-diego-union-tribune-buyer
Mario Garcia Jr. discusses online navigation
Go here:
Is top navigation still necessary on news sites?
http://garciainteractive.com/blog/view/37/
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https://garciamedia.com/latinamerica/blog/
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