Updated Friday, 09:40 EST
TAKEAWAY: The 2010 World Cup kicks off at Johannesburg’s Soccer City today as millions of soccer fans worldwide follow the games and bet on the teams they consider the best, and the players most likely to make history. For the media, an opportunity to display great storytelling, excellent and dynamic photography and infographics that help the fans make sense of it all. The fun starts today.PLUS: Our contdown to the Power of the Tablet conference at Poynter (June 14-15) continues with Reed Reibstein providing us links of interest to get us thinking tablets. Today: the iPad and books
World Cup 2010: Content we like
This graphic from Germany’s Welt Kompakt hits the spot when it comes to a creative way of presenting secondary/feature information related to the World Cup, about to open in South Africa.
It is all about how to set up the perfect room to enjoy the games. It is a perfect example, of the non-story story: this could have been written as a narrative, but it is much more attractive and fun to get this information through a graphic. Bravo.
Also from Welt Kompakt, the complete guide to the games: the fan’s essential tool to keep during the entire World Cup
Welt Am Sonntag: Sports Pages Go Classic
Who says elegance and classic typography do not belong on sports pages? Welt am Sonntag shows us it isn’t so.
From Germany’s Welt Am Sonntag, very elegant and informative pages about specific players at the World Cup 2010. Notice the typographic finesse used here, and how it helps these pages, allowing the reader to perceive that the stories are not sports breaking news, but more interpretation, analysis and narratives to be read leisurely.
Send us your World Cup 2010 best pages
As the games proceed, send me pdfs of any pages where you feel your newspaper/magazine has done something creatively different. Thanks in advance.
Send pdfs to: mario@garcia-media.com
Two launches in one day for Garcia Media Latinoamerica
Front page of the newly redesigned Opinion of Bolivia, which launched today
New portal for sports daily Diez, of Honduras
Rodrigo Fino, president of Garcia Media Latinoamerica in Buenos Aires, is a busy man today, as he and the GM team have launched the new look of Opinion in Bolivia, as well as the
portal in Honduras for the sports daily, Diez
Countdown to the Conference: 3 days to go
Submit Your Links!
On June 13, the day before the “Power of the Tablet” conference, I will post a list of the tablet-related links you, our valued readers, suggest. So send me your favorite articles, blog posts, tweets, e-mails from Steve Jobs , whatever! Tweet them to @rreibstein or leave them in the comments below.
As we approach Poynter’s The Power of the Tablet conference, I turn over the blog to our Garcia Media intern Reed Reibstein, who will also be blogging live from the conference. Reed’s idea is to “warm up” to the conference with daily postings of essential articles that will help everyone understand the tablet as a new journalistic platform.
“Print is dying. Digital is surging. Everyone is confused. Good riddance.” Good riddance to what Craig Mod calls “disposable books,” those that consist of words that are largely independent of how they appear in print. The stream of text in a junky paperback functions equally well on a smart phone, tablet, web browser, or printed page. But “definite content” intimately unites the words, their arrangement, and their context, requiring a level of design that until now has only been available in print. The iPad and future tablets provide an opportunity not just for reproducing definite content, but for expanding it with multimedia and new navigational paradigms. While Mod’s piece focuses on books, the concept of formless vs. definite content is fruitful in considering the possibilities for news on tablets.
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