Updated Tuesday at 16h, Dusseldorf, Germany
TAKEAWAY: It made perfect sense in 2002, it is a requirement in 2009: the survival of print depends on editors’ ability to embrace the new media. Today’s Pure Design installment discusses the issue. PLUS: Moonstruck after 40 years: front pages and man’s landing on the moon
Extra! Extra! All About Moon Landing
Il Secolo XIX of Genoa, Italy, went beyond the front page to include a double page treatment inside about the moon landing—courtesy of Design Director Massimo Gentile
Moon pages from Reformatorisch Dagblad (The Netherlands). Sent by Henk de Boer
Newsday of Long Island, New York turns to the future with its headline
That lady up there has not lost her ability to seduce us. Forty years after man first landed on the moon, we are still moonstruck. I have been checking how many newspapers worldwide are playing up the 40th anniversary of man’s landing on the moon right on Page One. Some of these appear here.
Send me your “moon” page pdfs as I wish to celebrate the occasion in our blog as well.
Print is eternal, with some requirements
I did not question it in 2002, and I don’t today: print will always be around. However, survival depends on how print editors adjust to the changes taking place; how they manage to transform their products into “companion” pieces to the digital media; how they redefine news; how they concentrate to see what “relevancy” is to readers and users (as opposed to traditional journalists).
Today’s installment is as fresh as ever. Perhaps I would make the language stronger, substituting all the “shoulds” for “musts”.
TAKEAWAY: Make change and innovation a constant part of your work. In today’s environment, one does not make rethinking a “project” in the traditional definition of the word. Or, perhaps, it is the project that is carried out continuously. ALSO: Death of an anchorman: Page One and Walter Cronkite PLUS: A French video about the future of books
Walter Cronkite: Dean of Anchormen
My generation grew up with Walter Cronkite as a dinner guest each night. His calm, efficient and always insightful presentation of the news was a part of the evening ritual in American homes everywhere. He has been called “the most trusted man in America”. He died Friday at the age of 92. With him we come to the end of a journalistic era—-one in which, as Cronkite said many times, an anchorman was a news presenter, and, in his case, a managing editor. His job was to offer the facts. He never considered himself a TV personality, although he was one of the medium’s biggest. I was curious to see how American newspapers covered the Cronkite obituary. The ones shown here picked my interest. In each case, Cronkite has been put on page one, where he belongs.
Interesting to note that foreign newspapers have covered Cronkite’s death as well, including Il Secolo XIX of Genoa, Italy.
Follow me at www.twitter.com/tweetsbydesign
Follow the Marios
Two Marios. Two Views.
Follow Mario Jr. and his blog about media analysis, web design and assorted topics related to the current state of our industry.
http://garciainteractive.com/
Visit Mario Sr. daily here, or through TweetsByDesign (www.twitter.com/tweetsbydesign)
In Spanish daily: The Rodrigo Fino blog
:
To read TheRodrigoFino blog, in Spanish, go:
https://garciamedia.com/latinamerica/blog/
TheMarioBlog posting #311