Duel between red and white teams

We loved this double-page from El Correo when we saw it. It is an outstanding way of putting an excellent idea onto a page. Both teams´ careers ever since they played the Europa League´s final match in Bucharest.

It is always interesting to find well-planned, though-out, elaborate pages. Like this interview we have read in Diario de Navarra:

Another example of well-developed information, from La Verdad´s Sports section:

Página 2

“There are many newspapers that attempt to launch the day´s stories with an opinion section, one that is more or less fixed, that puts the reader in front of everything he will find inside. Quite frequently routine and standard stories turn readers off. In Heraldo we considered a “Página 2” (second page) with an informative and opinion-based tone which encompasses the newspaper´s most representative stories from the Heraldo staff´s perspective. Actually, we are talking about the most-commented topics when deciding the day´s stories, and that are narrated in an original way without always using the same tools.”

 

"The use of monochrome, as well, emphasizes the importance of opinion over other graphic elements but always transmitting a desire to innovate and surprise. It becomes a small challenge that is overcome in the morning planning session (it is also the object of change depending on the flow of news), although always sustained by what we consider to be valid concentrating the most significant stories of the day. A short, but measured, look at a reality that has a transversal nature (local, sports, national, etc.). It is a product of journalism that, we believe, anchors the reader and also adds value to the newspaper from the start."

This is what Mikel Iturbe, the newspaper´s director, has told us about your interesting “Página 2”. Lets look at some pages:

How it will be

A good example of how to tell readers about changes that will occur in their city.  From “how it is now” to “how it will be”. We have seen it in El Periódico:

Wanted

Jorge Luis Sosa: Spanish judicial courts have been looking for him for a couple of years. He lives in the United States and is a boxer. Here he was known as Makelele, in the US he is known as Terrible Sosa (“the terrible Sosa”). Good story and good follow-up work from La Voz de Galicia:

Explaining facts

From facts to explanation. From facts to their reasons. We have read an outstanding example in La Vanguardia

What is published first

Prior coverage to events usually gives interesting information. We have seen two recent cases focused on soccer in Heraldo and in  Las Provincias. The facts were different: The first one, highlighted that Zaragoza´s soccer team had not scored any headed goal yet… and they finally did it. The second one said that Valencia was the worst team from its autonomous region … and nothing changed.

Is it the enemy?

We keep defending the idea that Spanish newspapers tend to approach really well “the day after” of the facts.  Today we are showing four examples. Heraldo focuses on the danger of the civil war bombs; La Voz, on the presence of cetaceans in Galicia´s coasts; La Vanguardia, on kids´ attendance at  soccer games in the Premier League; and El Periódico, on some world leaders´ personal phones.