Presenting my course at Columbia for Spring

One of the most important challenges for the college professor is that of updating course content each semester. Not to keep updating is to do less than the students—and the craft—deserve.

Especially in our field of journalism, changes are fast, furious and monumental. I will now start my 7th year teaching the course I created at Columbia’s School of Journalism, titled Multiplatform Design & Storytelling.

The course has evolved each year, hopefully becoming better and more responsive to the needs of students as they face the job market upon graduation.

While the course continues to emphasize multiplatform journalism, instructing students to consider the platform in which the story will be consumed, and sometimes doing more than one version of a story, I believe that the course I will introduce today is more mobile driven than any of the previous semesters.

It is the way the consumption of news and information goes, and how newsrooms are quickly transforming to adapt.

It is what I do in workshops around the globe weekly.

So, as a new group of students will come to listen to my introduction tomorrow and evaluate if this is the course for them, my 45-minute presentation will offer glimpses into linear storytelling, the visuals of mobile journalism and the importance of changing work flows to accommodate how stories flow today.

What will be emphasized?

I will devote more time to the creation of effective newsletters, and perhaps this will be the subject of the Midterm project.
I will introduce a segment about Podcasts and the importance of audio.
I will spend more time on the writing/editing/designing strategies for mobile.
I will require that students engage in greater weekly analysis of new products for mobile consumption of information.

Launch party for The Story in Zurich

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