Another first.

This time in New Delhi, a mega city with 100 million people living in its metropolitan area.

Today we had our first ONE DAY WITH INNOVATION in India.

And in our way to the ONE DAY we found 24 billboards promoting the Seminar.

A big event with a massive audience.

Thanks to the efforts of our INNOVATION’s Director in India, Pradeep Sharma.

He has done the same show for many years.

To show the crazy structure of multi-section broadsheets.

And specially with the dammed JUMPS!

So here it is again, this time during an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America.

Better than ever.

LIBE leads today the French press with its coverage of the Berlin Wall anniversary.

What a day, November 9 1989, to review today the failure of the world media to forecast the end of the Wall.

The New York Times reports about i:

It would be hard to find a less promising country in which to start a newspaper than Portugal. Not only are readers defecting to the Internet, as they are elsewhere, but relatively few people ever picked up a paper to begin with. And print advertising has plunged by more than 40 percent this year.Yet while newspapers elsewhere are shutting down or grappling with an uncertain future, Portugal recently got a new one, called i, short for informação, or information.

“Everyone was astonished that they went ahead with the launch when they did,” said João Palmeiro, president of the Portuguese Publishers Association, referring to Lena Group, the Portuguese industrial conglomerate that owns the paper. But he added, “Most of the people are sticking with it once they read it.”

Well, this Thursday, the regional chapter of the Society of News Design holds its annual meeting in Lisbon with a fantastic program that includes the award ceremony for the best designed newspapers of Spain and Portugal.

And the editors of  i will explain and present the new paper.

A colorized version of St. Louis Newsies in a May 5, 1910 photo by Lewis Hine.

Watch here the most recent and longest interview with Rupert Murdoch.

Tired?

Yes, but still willing to move ahead.

Retiring?

No.

Pay for content?

Yes.

How soon?

Very soon.

Stay tuned.

The news industry is facing big challenges.

Like in the past.

Like today.

Like tomorrow.

So let’s remember:

“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO what a ride”

(Thanks to INNOVATION’s Claude Erbsen)

The blog of the World Editors Forum writes about “i”, the newspaper that INNOVATION did with Sojormedia in Portugal.

As Emma Heald writes: Portugal’s newest daily newspaper, i, was launched in early May and has attracted a significant amount of attention due to its rising circulation figures and innovative approach. It recently won a design award from the Society of News Design.

See here a recent cover story with a unique front and inside pages that were produced on deadline:

I had been this week in Madrid to speak in an international seminar organized by El Mundo during its 20 Anniversary celebration.

Among other speakers were Robert Thompson (Wall Street Journal), Will Lewis (The Daily Telegraph), Pedro J. Ramirez (El Mundo), Ben Macintyre (The Times), Giorgio Valerio (RCS), Antonio Fernandez Galiano (Unedisa) and Martim Figueiredo (i-Sojornal).

This was my interview published in El Mundo this Wednesday.

(In the above picture, the King of Spain and Will Lewis during the El Mundo Awards ceremony where The Daily Telegraph was honored for its coverage of the MP’s expenses scandal)

A perfect front page for an eight page cover story.

Pure “daily-news-magazine.”

Miguel Torres talks to The Guardian and says that his firm re-invests 95% of its profits in the business.

Yes, 95%.

In vino, veritas!

So they are growing, selling more bottles than ever, expanding their markets and making more money than ever.

What a lesson for the Bancroft kind of media publishers of this world!

Time of crisis?

Time to invest!

So, less bonus, less memos, and more demos and prototypes.

Candid Japanese visual animations from the late 19th and early 20th century by T. Enami (1859-1929).

He was known as “King of the Stereoview, Master of the Lantern-Slide And Prolific Anonymous Contributor To the World of Yokohama Album Views.”

Watch here some of these fantastic 3D stereoviews depicting life in Meiji-period Japan.

And this was his fabulous business card

WE ARE DIFFERENT is a French quarterly magazine abour urban fashion and culture with fantastic covers quite:

Provocative.

Interesting.

Innovative.

And, yes, WAD is DIFFERENT.

(Via Nas Capas)

“Yesterday’s answer has nothing to do with today’s problems”

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft company.

“Here’s my one word secret to success: Anticipation”

Donald Reagan, the 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief of Staff in the Ronald Reagan Administration.

This 37 year old Portuguese journalist is the publisher and editor of i, the new quality national compact and compelling daily newspaper published by Sojormedia that was launched in May 2009.

Martim was the former editor of Diario Economico and later became the Communications Director of SONAE.

I had the opportunity top work with Martim and his team in the planning and implementation of a simple idea: let’s produce a new and relevant on and off line daily newspaper for the new generations of professionals in Portugal, hiring young journalists and giving them a “no limits” freedom to report, edit and present exclusive news and tell stories that move people.

In less than six months, i has become the most innovative newspaper of Europe, and the best designed newspaper of Spain and Portugal.

And Martim is now one of the main speakers in any big newspaper congress.

His case, a new quality newspaper when many old ones are not sure about the future of this industry, is a great example of courage, entrepreneurship and vision.

So Martim is, for sure, a Media Innovator!

(I took the above picture during my last visit to Lisbon before the launch of i: from the left to the right, Martim with his Commercial Director, Joao Pedro Mendes, and the President of Sojormedia, Francisco Rebelo dos Santos)

These are fake prototypes of the Apple tablet or, better, slate.

It will better, lighter and more appealing, I can assure you.

But not a rubber screen, as it will be soon or later.

A rubber paper.

We are like the Romans with the Acta Diurna, carving the news in stone surfaces.

Let’s migrate to the rubber paper.

56 concept designs and fake prototypes here.

You can be the owner of a great newspaper like The New York Times, but this doesn’t mean that you have the talent and character to lead a newspaper that it’s an institution.

A newspaper institution that, at the end of the day, “belongs” to thousands of loyal readers.

So here there are more stupid comments from the capo di tutti capi.

The New York magazine had a brief cocktail encounter with “Pinch” Sulzberger and he made these lousy comments comparing print newspapers to the Titanic!

He thinks that physical newspapers will stick around as well. “The best analogy I can think of is — have you ever heard of the Titanic Fallacy?” he asked. We hadn’t. “What was the critical flaw to the Titanic?” We tried to answer: Poor construction? Not enough life boats? Crashing into stuff? “A captain trying to set a world speed record through an iceberg field?” he said, shaking his head. “Even if the Titanic came in safely to New York Harbor, it was still doomed,” he said. “Twelve years earlier, two brothers invented the airplane.”

…

“We are trying to convert shipping companies to airplane companies,” said Sulzberger. “Same business: transporting people safely across long distances. Different cost structure, different way of doing business, but the same core business. There is still a very vibrant business in shipping. It’s just not taking masses of people across the Atlantic. It’s now taking families around the Seychelles, or something like that. There will still be passenger ships, but they’re not going to be in the same business. So print will still be here, I believe, decades from now. But will it be the driving force? No.”

As one reader of the pice said:

Airplanes did not surpass ships as the primary means of crossing the Atlantic until 1958. The TITANIC was not trying to set a speed record (it would have been physically impossible). Her construction was hardly shoddy. Airplanes in 1912 were little more than flimsy toys. The Atlantic was not crossed by commercial airplanes until the late 30s and then in hops. Lousy analogy!

Yes, a lousy analogy from a lousy publisher.

So with this kind of “friends”, the newsroom of The New York Times doesn’t need any enemy.

The enemy is inside.

It’s the owner!

(Picture by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)