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,...
Arab News has won 2018 Best Redesign in the World silver award at the WAN-IFRA Print Innovation competition. The competition judged by a distinguished jury of industry leaders recognises the best cases of ‘innovation with impact’ in terms of audience engagement, relevance and increase in revenue. The...
Media companies who employ the best of storytelling tools will win audiences; everyone else will shrivel and many will die. This is the Golden Age of Journalism But perhaps not for you. You’ve heard the phrase before, and you’re probably sick of slick slogans like that. But, aside from...
Earlier this summer, INNOVATION Media Consulting completed the successful reinvention of Tiso Blackstar Group's two Eastern Cape news brands The Herald and The Dispatch in South Africa. The Herald, in Port Elizabeth, and the Dispatch, in East London, now sport dynamic new designs that reflect also...