Norway’s Dagbladet: storytelling training

This is the week of the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States so that there will not be postings of TheMarioBlog until Monday, December 2, reporting from Hamburg, Germany.

As far as my mobile storytelling workshops, this one was special from the start. Attended by about 50 members of the Dagbladet team, the group included editors, reporters, designers, photographers, videographers and developers.

We took the group into the three areas that are the basis of my new mobile storytelling book, The Story: Transformation, Storytelling and Design. The session was followed by a Q & A session.

The day also included more of a “salon” type of session with a small group of members of the newspaper’s magazine team, Magasinet, with the discussion moderated by Trude Lorentzen, who heads the digital storytelling unit.

During this salon we got into actual step by step discussions of stories the team is now working on: how do we take those stories to mobile. Why not start planning for mobile, the smallest platform, then take it to larger platforms (such as print)?

From sketching to executing, our discussion included a variety of stories and emphasized the importance of the planning session when a story is first conceived.

Here are photos that show the beautiful settings of Dagbladet:

Here is a sculpture of a “newspaper boy” that I found interesting. I commented that we don’t see many paper boys delivering newspapers anymore.

***A sculpture of an iconic “newspaper boy” at Dagbladet headquarters in Oslo.***

The view from the small auditorium where we conducted the main session:

Here is a look at the participants:

Also these images, including the parting shot, where the team presented me with a giant bottle of bubbly and a Dagbladet coffee cup. That was a fun day.

***A small “salon” type of creative exercise with the team of Magasinet***

***All is well that ends well! Thanks, Dagbladet team.***

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