PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Let it be said upfront: Indian newspapers have sold their front pages to advertisers before, and The Times of India is not the first. In 1948, India’s self-proclaimed “national newspaper”, The Hindu, reported the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on its back page, because, back then, the “Mount Road Mahavishnu”…
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Who, why, when, how, where, what, what the…
The new, redesigned Newsweek has had plenty of what can only be mildly termed “negative fan following”. The designer Juan Antonio Giner wrote recently that it was time to “forget Newsweek“. “It’s irrelevant. Awful design. Cheap opinions. No reporting. No news. No quality. No necessary content. And… a newsroom of hundreds. For what? Fat newsroom…
How to wish ‘Happy Birthday’ without a script
On his 48th birthday, US President Barack Obama wishes the grande dame of the White House press corps, Helen Thomas, on her 89th. Let history record that the Wisher-in-Chief did not use a teleprompter when he wished her Happy Birthday. Link via Juan Antonio Giner/ Innovation in Newspapers Also read: The fastest 100 days in…
Seminar on managing newsrooms in crisis times
How to manage a news organisation in a recession? How to make the best use of depleted resources and revenues? How to find new revenue streams in online and mobile digital platforms? How to design and integrate newsrooms for the multimedia era? Those are some of the big questions facing global media today, and Innovation…
World Association of Newspapers congress put off
The annual congress of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), scheduled to be held in recession-hit, scam-hit Hyderabad in March this year, has been put off to the end of the year. According to one report, the meeting was postponed to due to low registration. “The economic crisis has had a devastating effect on participation…
Sure, size matters, but does only size matter?
How much smaller can a newspaper sheet get before it becomes a newspaper chit? From 60-inch web presses (the old Wall Street Journal or The Hindu) which generated very wide 15-inch by 22¾ front pages, we have come down to acceptable 54-48 inch web presses which generate 12½ to 13½ inch front pages (New York…
GUARANTEED: 20 ways to kill a newspaper
At the World Association of Newspaper summit, Juan Antonio Giner, vice-president of Innovation, has unveiled a surefire recipe to kill a newspaper. 1. be dull and boring 2. change slowly 3. print yesterday’s news 4. don’t take risks 5. expect different results by doing things the same way 6. insult your readers 7. lie to…
Change when you are on top, not at the bottom
La Vanguardia, the leading quality newspaper in Spain, has had a fine year after it “changed without changing.” In 2006, Innovation International Media made several recommendations on how to go about the change. Juan Antonio Giner, the founder-director of Innovation, lists the lessons learned from the exercise. 1) Change when you are a leader 2)…
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