Newspapers Report 2015

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[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...

[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'] Some non-profit journalism organisations have produced world-class investigative reporting but financial backers are becoming more demanding and it is not clear how the impact of reporting can be easily measured. [/custom_font] [custom_font font_family='Open Sans'...

[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'] As media outlets around the world struggle to make journalism work with advertising again, and as readers continue to ignore online ads, big titles in the US and Europe have discovered a...

[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'] New projects are focusing on the possibilities of data journalism but so far it has been bigger traditional media players around the globe who have scooped up the most success in this...