25 Feb Quote Unquote: A Selection of Comments from Industry Leaders in News Media
This article is one of many chapters published in our book, Innovation in News Media 2018 World Report....
Author: Innovation Media Consulting
18 Feb The New Print: Creativity in Newspapers
Print is not dead. Print is alive! This is a portfolio of some of the impressive ideas, projects, publications and people re-inventing the print media world. KIOSKS A London Print Saloon [caption id="attachment_6923" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Photo courtesy of Magculture.com[/caption] MagCulture, originally a blog about magazines by art director Jeremy...
11 Feb Choose Your Media Technology Wisely: Innovations to Strengthen Your Media Brand in 2019
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,...
28 Jan Media Morphosis: How to Change Your News Culture
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...
14 Jan Key Interior Design Tips To Build Digital Newsroom Spaces
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...
07 Jan Change your newsroom, change your fortunes
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...
10 Dec Power to print!
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...
26 Nov INNOVATION’s Decalogue for good user experience and human-centred design
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...
19 Nov “And in this corner, the challenger: The new lean, mean print magazine”
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...
05 Nov The top six media technologies you need to know about
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...