It is Thursday and I find myself in Tampa, Florida, where I have come as a proud grandpa to attend two graduations for two of my grandchildren===finishing primary school and moving on to high school.
At INMA in New York
Tuesday I was honored to be the keynote speaker to kick off a workshop for Editors about Mobile Storytelling as part of the INMA Congress in New York City 2019. We had a packed room of editors, publishers and even marketing directors, all eager to learn more about the way we tell stories on mobile platforms.
It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces in the audience. My key takeaways were echoed robustly via social media, especially the idea of conceptualizing story for the small screen first, then going for other platforms.
Here are some of those social media items:
On video use
On websites and home pages
On the mobile first revolution
On the role of print
On why mobile first
The press crisis in Venezuela
In our Wednesday blog we reported how sad we are to read that one of Venezuela’s most respected regional newspapers, Panorama, has ceased to publish in print due to NOT having any paper available on which to print.
I am not surprised by the number of people who have written to me to share their concern and sadness with this news.
One of those writing is Patricia Pineda, a member of the family which has published Panorama for 104 years.
A newspaper has been silenced. One that during 104 years has been a champion of editorial pluralism has been silenced. A newspaper that with rigor and veracity has informed the day to day about our most important national issues of Venezuela and the world, and that which with consistency and continuity has defended the interests of our region of Zulia and of all the east of Venezuela is no longer. We are added to the list of Venezuelan newspapers forced, by so many difficulties involving our country, to stop its presses against the wishes of what the directors, journalists and employees would like to do.
Freedom of expression suffers another severe blow, a centenarian newspaper that has informed five generations of Venezuelans ceases to publish. However, while the newspaper has shut down its printing press, our job of informing the public continues via our digital platforms and social media.
Here is a copy of that last printed front page, with the headline “Hasta Pronto!” meaning “So long,” or “Until we meet again soon“. Truly a sad day for Venezuela’s press and for all of us who work in journalism and who value the presence of a free press.
Mario’s speaking engagements
Mario doing a keynote presentation at Newscamp 2018 in Augsburg, Germany
Here are places where I will be taking the message of mobile storytelling in the weeks ahead:
May 25, Milan, Italy, EidosMedia Annual Customer Meeting, Keynote: Mobile First Strategies for Publishers
June 12, NEC Media City, Bergen, Norway, Storytelling workshop for Editors
June 13, Fortellingens kraft 2019, Bergen, Norway, Long form Mobile Storytelling for Writers
July 11, Florida Media Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, Keynote for editors: The mobile first newspaper strategy.
Mario’s weekend rituals…..
Monocle interviews me about what I do on a typical weekend (is there such a thing? Not for someone like me who is seldom in the same location twice. But I gave it my best shot, for what may come as a normal weekend, when I am home in New York! Enjoy.
https://monocle.com/minute/2019/04/27/
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An interview of interest
http://www.itertranslations.com/blog/2019/3/11/fd60ybflpvlqrgrpdp5ida5rq0c3sp
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