Mario Garcia: storytelling by design

Mario Garcia has been described as the most in-demand news designer on the planet but he never trained as a designer.
He talks to Upgrade Media about what drives him, how news publishers need to rethink their formats, about mobile first, and what we can learn from children's books of the 1920s.

As well as working on over 700 news projects, Mario Garcia is the  Senior Adviser on News Design at Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism, and can be contacted at Garcia Media.

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Chapters

• 0:49 Not by design
• 2:25 Why this is the best time ever to be in news
• 3:23 Mobile storytelling.... and children's books
• 4:43 Journalism of interruption
• 7:12 Think mobile
• 12:04 How mobile impacts on design
• 13:12 Let the audio/video do the talking
• 16:15 Turning visual assets into journalistic assets
• 16:30 How local media can keep up