Over the last year media technology has continued to do what it does best: surprise us. We've seen innovation in augmented reality and virtual reality change the way we think about and produce news. We've seen the growing interest in and the strengthening of AI,...
The business we're in has changed substantially and companies must adjust their ways of thinking and operating accordingly. Changing corporate culture in newsrooms is a must, if media companies want to successfully meet the needs of consumers, readers and their digital audiences, and change their...
You will always need “media architects”, some of whom have designed hundreds of fantastic “open-space” newsrooms. Other companies, who decided to try to reinvent the wheel instead of trusting their experts, have produced some very bad, and very expensive, failures. YOU NEED SPACE: FROM 10-14 SQUARE...
Over the past 20 years, INNOVATION has designed many multimedia newsrooms, several of which are industry benchmarks worldwide. Here are some of our suggestions. 1. OPEN SPACES, WALLS-DOWN INNOVATION FORMULA Open Newsroom Creativity + Communication + Collaboration = Better Content 2. DIGITAL-FIRST (JOURNALISM-FIRST) News first, platform second. We tell...
Print products continue to thrive in the digital world, so just what are print’s enduring qualities? It’s not unusual for any of us to still flip a magazine open or read a print catalogue that has been dropped through the mailbox. But you may be surprised...
1 Reduce cognitive load Understand how human factors influence the experience and work towards a solution with the least cognitive effort for the user. Example: The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab's notifications experiment during the UK's snap election in June 2017 learnt from previous experiments to include easy...
Properly positioned (think premier, subscription-based publications), print can drive significant revenue for a long time to come. Duck! Here comes the print pendulum, screaming back with speed and long-lost momentum. It’s coming back a lean, mean, laser-focused magazine machine. “New Print” is leaner not just because the old print...
Walk, don’t run, to the future (but start walking now!) What are you, some sort of troglodyte? It’s 2018 and you STILL haven’t converted your entire editorial department into a virtual reality studio that also builds chatbots, creates audio pieces for those hot voice-activated personal assistants, and...
After the so-called “Facebook Apocalypse”, media companies will actually be better off in the long run. How often does a drug dealer cut off his own customers? Never, right? But that’s basically what happened on January 11, 2018 when Facebook smacked media companies upside the head and said:...
The flux and change that mark the financial picture of our industry today bewilder companies around the world. There is no single solution to address falling revenues, but it is clear that news publishers must get better at exploring diverse revenue streams outside print advertising,...