I always enjoy my appearances at WAN IFRA events, which I have been honored to do for many years.

Again this year I am invited to be part of the WAN IFRA World News Media Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, June 7-8, and I will be doing a presentation about various forms of storytelling across platforms, a summary of my Columbia University course, but reduced from 14 weeks to 45 minutes.

I plan to engage colleagues who are doing creative storytelling as well.

Here is a summary of my presentation:

The Mario Storytelling Showfest will present the various ways in which we are telling stories today in what I describe as the journalism of interruptions and everywhereness. How does one write, edit and design for an audience that gives us between 6 and 8 seconds before it dives into information. Storytelling is more vibrant and full of possibilities than ever before, and we have several platforms in which to present news and information. This session will concentrate mainly on the smallest screen—the smartphone. IT will also deal with the simplest of stories, as in a push notification, all the way to how breaking news flows and how editors must learn to accommodate the individual characteristics of each platform, including the role of print. This will be a fest, indeed, and the participants will leave with solid tips to make storytelling unique in their publications.

If you wish to attend, here is for more information:

http://events.wan-ifra.org/events/70th-world-news-media-congress-25th-world-editors-forum

Society of News Design New York: Celebrating 40 years

The Society for News Design’s 40th Anniversary Workshop, Creative Conference and Awards Gala will be in New York City, March 22–24.

Workshop chair Tyson Evans, of The New York Times, and an army of volunteers are organizing three packed days of talks, training, networking and inspiration about the future (and past) of storytelling, visual journalism and news products across print and digital.

Speakers announced so far include Scott Stowell, proprietor of Open and winner of the National Design Award for Communication Design; Jennifer Daniel, of Google; John Maeda, of Automattic and visual journalists from The New York Times, Washington Post, Axios, Vice, ProPublica and more.

I am honored to be one of the speakers.

If you would like to attend what promises to be one of the best SND gatherings ever, please go here for more information:

https://nyc.snd.org