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Feb. 3rd Cleaning the files, comparing notes, discovering the way we write a book today

TAKEAWAY: Time for office file cleaning, and the discovery of bulky files of another era.  However, the scraps of paper brought back the memories.  How will we reminisce without the tangible collective memory that those pieces of paper provide?

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Feb. 2nd Long form journalism finds perfect home in the iPad

TAKEAWAY: All that frequent talk about iPads being a “lean back” platform may be one reason that longer narratives do so well there.  A new app celebrates the long story.  Newspaper editors may take a cue from it. 

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Jan. 31st The Daily turns one: why is it still not a habit with me?

TAKEAWAY: It’s the first newspaper entirely created for the iPad and this week The Daily turns one. Like one year olds, it’s starting to walk, has teething pains and not talking much to me yet.

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Jan. 31st Money Magazine iPad app: expanding the canvas

TAKEAWAY: Money magazine has invested time and creativity in a great looking iPad app that I recommend you sample.  Following quickly in the footsteps of its print redesign, this tablet edition is elegant, clean and functional.

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Jan. 30th Becoming a better media consumer in the era of “everyone’s a journalist”

TAKEAWAY: So a large member of our media audiences are involved in reporting, sharing and interacting with us directly.  Perhaps there should be an Intro to Media course taught in every high school, to prepare a generation of media consumers to be better prepared for the important role they are already playing, which is likely to grow tremendously in the future.

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Jan. 26th They can’t relocate my memories of The Miami Herald’s iconic building

TAKEAWAY: So The Miami Herald is moving its operations to a different location.  To me, the building at One Herald Plaza will always be the place where I discovered what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

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Jan. 26th We take a look at Newsweek’s new iPad app

TAKEAWAY: It is a new iPad app for Newsweek and it may represent what magazine apps will be like in 2012: moderation rules, reading mode is king, photos shine and, well, you will find one bell and one whistle, not a dozen.

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Jan. 24th Financial Times and “distilled storytelling”

TAKEAWAY: Now that the successful Financial Times series, Capitalism in Crisis,  is finished, Kevin Wilson, head of design, explains the concept of the “barcode” as a visual foundation to carry the series from one segment to the next.

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Jan. 24th Newspapers in 2012: some expand, some up for sale

TAKEAWAY: It is mixed bag of news for newspapers as the last week of January 2012 starts.  One announces territorial expansions, a famous one may be up for sale, and a broadsheet Down Under beefs up coverage and makes new editorial appointments.  Welcome to the world of newspapers in an age of transitions.

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Jan. 22nd Apple, textbooks and new publishing opportunities

TAKEAWAY: Apple obviously wants to create good reading habits on its extremely popular tablet, the iPad, and it wants to do it through textbooks, allowing a generation that is already quite familiar with that platform, to study and to learn from it, via textbooks.

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Jan. 19th Sydney Morning Herald: good things happening here

TAKEAWAY: We conclude our reports from the Asia-Pacific region with this profile of the Sydney Morning Herald, an organization where stories come first, and each platform shines based on its own strengths. AND: A new design for Money magazine

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Jan. 18th Report from Hong Kong 2012:  #2 Evolution of a design, and what are those ads doing there?

TAKEAWAY: We take a look at a selection of pages published in the South China Morning Post since their May 16, 2011 rethinking ALSO: What happens when advertisements that pay well become too invasive? AND: Do you know some news apps that deserve to be shown in my book, Storytelling in the Times of the iPad?

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Jan. 17th Report from Hong Kong 2012:  #1 Infographics at the South China Morning Post

TAKEAWAY: We take a look at some fantastically informative infographics published in the South China Morning Post AND: Do you know some news apps that deserve to be shown in my book, Storytelling in the Times of the iPad?

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Jan. 16th Get ready for the tabletazzi

TAKEAWAY: Gossip and celebrity fanatics, the app you have been dreaming about is coming your way next month: The National Enquirer will premiere its tablet edition next month.

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Jan. 15th Covering a disaster at sea

TAKEAWAY: It was supposed to be the cruise of a lifetime for many of the thousands of passengers on board the Italian cruiseliner that ran aground this weekend.  We show you how Il Secolo XIX ,Bild and other newspapers covered it.  THIS WEEK: Reporting from Hong Kong

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