Updated Tuesday, Nov. 18.
Leroy Sylk, design director of The Nation, shares images with us of The Nation’s Sunday edition, which yesterday went out with its new narrower format. In addition, The Nation introduced a new glossy Sunday magazine, Ace, of which we show you sample here.
Here is what Leroy had to say about the change at his newspaper:
The Nation English daily along with its Thai-language sister paper has gone for a narrower width—12 inches—on Sundays. We’re the first to set the ball rolling in Thailand because I won’t be surprised if other newspapers here follow suit. Neither will I be surprised if our daily Nation at some point in the near future becomes narrower. Sure, it helps cut costs a bit, but at the same time we feel the narrower width is more reader-friendly especially if the reader has to hold it up to read or when he/she goes through it on the subway or the Skytrain. We’ve also introduced a glossy lifestyle Sunday magazine called Ace, which makes for lighter reading, and gives the reader more choice. Here are some of our new broadsheet Sunday pages, with the cover running a large promo (for 3 sundays in a row with a different screen colour each week) for our new mag Ace, which is big for us
I foresee that, especially in the United States, a large number of broadsheets will go to the narrower web width, not only to save money, but also to provide readers with an easier to manage product.
This week again: Mario the grandfather
As you all know, I welcomed my 10th grandchild, David Mario Lazaro, into the world Nov. 10.
Since then, I have been helping my daughter Elena (David’s mom) with her other two children, Sophia and Danny. In the process, I am gaining incredible respect for the work of moms who juggle a dozen things. I thought I was a multi tasker, but, THIS is real multi tasking.
My day starts getting Sophia ready for school (she is in kindergarten), and I follow the list my daughter has prepared for me (except that I sneak Oreo cookies into her snack pack, contrary to Elena’s best advice, what are grandpas for?). Then one hour later, I prepare Danny for his pre-school day, and make sure that he has his favorite DVD playing in the back of the car on the way to school. Yes, he is the one who taught me how to turn on the machine, how to insert the DVD, and tells me when it is over and a new one needs to be put in.
By noon, I am picking up Danny, then treat him to a MacDonald’s lunch (Mom Elena does not do that), and I know all about Happy Meals and the entire set of Madagascar movie animals.
Yes, he desperately wants the penguin, but so far no luck getting it. Maybe tomorrow.
In between, I help Elena with other things around the house, then comes afternoon homework (I am happy to see that caligraphy has a place in the kindergarten curriculum again). Soon, it is playtime, then dinner and a bath, and bedtime storytelling. Sophia is into princesses, so when I have read every possible princess story in the books, I make up stories of my own, which she relishes, especially if I tell her about far away places that she can only imagine (try India), but that I visit frequently. Danny likes stories about robots, with which I am not familiar, so I have made up a story about the encounter of a big turtle and an alligator in the river behind my house, and he asks for that fictional account time and time again. And, although he knows the ending, his eyes always express the amazement of the first time I told him the story.
And, yes, I try to find a one hour window to do my run, although there is no specific schedule for that, so I take it as it comes.
My daughter asked me today if I missed the flying, the hotels, the work, and she said: Dad, it would be great if you were retired and here all the time.
But, of course, if that was the case I could not spoil the kiddies with Oreo cookies and trips to MacDonalds everyday. Or I would run out of stories about turtles, alligators and Indian princesses.
It was the great Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi who said that grandchildren are God’s dessert to man.
Indeed, and I am savoring the sweetness of mine daily.
Oh, yes, baby David Mario is a joy to look out as he sleeps peacefully through it all.
In Spanish: ElBlogDeRodrigoFino
Here is the link to ElBlogDeRodrigoFino: https://www.garciamedia.com/latinamerica/blog/
Today: Rodrigo Fino writes that blogs are here to stay
For those who read in Spanish, here Rodrigo describes the objectives of his blog:
Todos los días en español una enrada sobre diseño, periodismo, internet,
nuevos medios y tendencias.
TheMarioBlog posting #140