CAIRO: Will Apple ban popular newspaper apps from the iPhone App store?
UPDATE: Rob Curley of the Las Vegas Sun tells me that he is worried about his news app being banned. (full quote further down)
Update No. 2. The Guardian reports that “The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) is considering making a complaint to Apple over the computer firm’s request that German publisher Axel Springer censor the naked girls on one of its iPhone apps.”
MONACO: Mathias Döpfner opened his interview segment at the Monaco Media Forum with the stunning news that the German media giant’s newspaper division is showing a 25.4% profit.
“If print is a dead business, then this kind of death feels pretty comfortable for me.”
No kidding. Springer is riding in the opposite direction of almost every other western media house. Yes, Arianna Huffington is also on stage but is clearly outclassed in this discussion.
Below is a slideshow of great pages that proves the visual journalism is not dead.
Not dead by a mile - and work like this is even more necessary when editors need to tell complex stories in an economy of newsprint. Stories that can be scanned and read in non-linear fashion.
The quality of work submitted to the Visual Editors portfolio site every day illustrates that the craft and need for editorial visuals is still being produced at a high level in newsrooms around the globe.
Every few days the editors highlight the strongest page designs and graphics to be featured on the home page.
The Victoria Advocate's Harry Potter themed newspaper.
Visual editor, Ryan Huddle posted an impressive gallery of Harry Potter themed pages in the gallery on Visual Editors. (See slideshow embedded below)
He writes that his newspaper, the Victoria Advocate, had “a lot of success with the Victoria Prophet single pages we did in 2007. This year we went bigger and better with an entire section. We turned our weekly entertainment section into the Victoria Prophet with local feature stories, Advertising, Games, and we even have ads for the busniesses in the world of Harry Potter.”
In a time of contraction for some U.S. newsrooms it is heartening to see a paper take an idea like this and run with it and really, really do it right.
From Brussels, DeMorgen’s front page meshes the print and online worlds. A word glyph of the words from President Obama’s address paired with an iconic image and strongly worded headline.
Those word cloud graphics are striking and surprisingly easy to generate at worldle.net
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
