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When a big story breaks, readers around the world instantly start paying attention to your reporting. Make the most of the opportunity [custom_font font_family='Open Sans' font_size='13' line_height='26' font_style='italic' text_align='left' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='#ffffff' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='10px' margin='10px'] By Matthew Bennett | Consultant, Innovation Media Consulting Group, Murcia...

Media outlets need to stay ahead of the game and understand how the news environment and technology are changing, and how newsrooms can get their stories to readers on the platforms they want to consume them on. [custom_font font_family='Open Sans' font_size='13' line_height='26' font_style='italic' text_align='left' font_weight='300' color=''...

One of the most innovative newspapers in the English language is losing a million pounds a week – and has now had a bitter parting with a Pulitzer-winning editor. How did this happen? And how can it bounce back? [custom_font font_family='Open Sans' font_size='13' line_height='26' font_style='italic' text_align='left'...

[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='left' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px'] Innovation in large media companies with a broad mix of legacy assets is no less of a struggle than innovating from the ground up with small new projects. Colombia’s El Tiempo told...

[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='left' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px'] Bono, Sir Elton John, Sir Richard Branson, Karl Lagerfeld and Lady Gaga have all guest edited newspaper in recent years, drawing attention to aspects of the news that are normally hidden in...

[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='center' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px'] Distilling complex story ideas into simple, striking metaphors is infinitely more difficult than the results suggest. INNOVATION asked Rodrigo Sánchez, the art director of Madrid daily El Mundo, to explain how Metrópoli,...

[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='center' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px'] Newsletters are having something of a second youth and some media outlets are making the most of the opportunity. Those who are not yet doing so must begin to incorporate them into...

[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='center' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px'] Digital, content and ad spending are all going mobile fast, and Google is now penalising mobile-unfriendly sites. Newspapers have many options to choose from, but choose they must, if they are to keep up with readers. [/custom_font] [custom_font...

[custom_font font_family='Raleway' font_size='19' line_height='26' font_style='' text_align='center' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='0px' margin='0px'] Nicolás Beytout and Christophe Chenut are trying to invest €20 million over four years to create the first new general interest print daily to survive in Paris since the 1970s, targeting premium...