Giner cruises into the blogosphere
From the title, Juan Antonio Giner’s Innovations in Newspapers blog sounds like a weighty, academic analysis of, well, innovations in newspapers.
But I was pleasantly surprised to find it a mostly pictorial blog full of posts that are at times critical, others amusing, Giner’s posts are always interesting.
In the style of ABC’s Media Watch or Crikey’s Media Briefs it takes a look at things like headline usage, page layout and editing in big papers from around the world.
All this is interspersed with the odd in-depth post from Giner about what he’s been up to in the media world.
Giner’s current blog-on-the-side, QE2: The Last Crossing, chronicles his journey on the final Atlantic crossing of the QE2 cruise ship.
In this post dated October 15th, he tells the story of how the blog came about. Apparently, he pitched the idea to several editors and newspapers and no-one was interested in the story so he went ahead and blogged on it himself.
Giner says he had overwhelming interest in his QE2 adventure and is now considering writing a book about it.
Giner’s QE2 success story gives a big middle fingered salute to snooty editors who think they now what is news and what isn’t.
Go Giner.
