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Al Bayan and Emirates 24/7 are two Dubai newspapers with a very good infographics department. The peruvian Luis Chumpitaz leads a great and heterogeneus team, showing every day the quality of their works, winning international awards on each contest they participate.

Now, SND jobs announces two information graphic designers positions in their team. They ask for someone who can talk in english or arabic, with journalistic background. They are also looking for two online developers (AS3-HTML5) and one digital illustrator.

So, if you feel attracted by working in Emirates, with am award-winning team in two quality newspapers, this is your chance.

The Times hires Mario Cameira (Publico, Portugal)

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The Times has a new professional for its infographics department: Mario Cameira, who works for the portuguese newspaper Publico. Mario won't start at The Times until the first of March, but the deal is done.

Mario is author of the blog Infografando, and has been hired as senior infographic journalist at the english daily. One thing we have to notice is that this hiring comes months after Rafa Höhr signed with The Sunday Times, so we can figure out the idea of the businness: more online graphics.

Both hirings has similar profiles: experience in print before becoming online nfographic journalists, with clear, clean and smart online graphics.

Congratulations to Mario Cameira and The Times.

Source: Publico.

Marca hires Matías Cortina: a commitment to online graphics

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This is not something new, it happened some weeks ago, but it's something I would highlight. Marca, the most read newspaper in Spain (a sports newspaper) has hired Matías Cortina, (El Mundo,  Terra y ELPAIS.com), to strengthen its online graphics production.
He meets ageain Germán Pizarro, former colleague at Terra, where they were one of the pioneers couples of the spanish online grpahics, and now Graphics Director at Marca. This movement shows the commitment of Marca to online graphics, a newspaper with an integrated department of infographics and one of the most awarded spanish media in online infographics.

Good luck!

Looking for a job?

We're in the middle of a huge crisis. As usual since I work in media.
But infographics is a good job, not just because, if you're reading this, is because you like it. But because there are still opportunities being an infographics journalists.

Just some examples of full-time jobs in media posted on the SND:

NORTH AMERICA


- Graphic artist (The Virginian Pilot) - Norfolk, Virginia (USA)
- Interactive graphics designer (The Baltimore Sun) - Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
- Interactive Graphic Artist (Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville.com) - Jacksonville, Florida (USA)
- Graphics Editor (The Wall Street Journal) - New York, USA
- Graphics Artist (San José Mercury News) - San José, California (USA)

- Graphic Artist (The Globe & Mail) - Toronto, Canada

SOUTH AMERICA

- Infografista (La Tercera) - Santiago de Chile, Chile

ASIA

- Infographic, english & arabic (Times of Oman-Al Shabiba, Oman) - Muscat, Oman

And these are just some examples...

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Murdoch's strategy for making people pay for The Times online: Infographics

The webs of The Times have already lifted the paywall. But if you want people to pay you got to give them something attractive, diffferent. Unique. And The Times thinks that infographics can be that added value.

They have hired one of the spanish stars of online infographics recently, Rafa Höhr. Former graphics editor of Prisacom (ELPAIS.com, As.com...) and who was working in the online media of Grupo Joly (a regional spanish media group).

Now they're also publishing interactive infographics for its iPad edition, as I could discover thanks to Esther Vargas.

The Times iPad infographic - “Health Profile of England” from Applied Works on Vimeo.

Infographics people are telling that time ago. We are not just cared about our jobs. Infographics can be the added value. The difference among the flood of webs. Murdoch thinks infographics are a good reason to make people pay. He can success or fail. But he's not just another person telling the same old story.


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Infographics journalists have future

According to indeed.com. Via @joegraphics


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Chema Matía and Bea Santacruz leave El Mundo

AVE Madrid-Zaragoza, by Chema Matía, from albertocairo.com

These are hard days for media. Owners are cutting jobs, and, although infographics departments are not the worst places to be, (with exceptions as the AJC and some others), there are also some damnified. And two of the lasts cases has been caused at the spanish newspaper El Mundo. The editorial company Unidad Editorial offered thw workers some advantages for those who decide to leave their jobs.Two historical members of the infographics department, Chema Matía and Beatriz Santacruz, decided to leave the place. Although the newspaper tried to keep them in the place, they continued with their idea and now walk free. Good luck for both!


Beatriz Santacruz.


Beatriz Santacruz

Graphics by Beatriz Santacruz from rafaestrada.net

Going... coming... staying

Not even in the middle of this crisis stops the movement of infographics journalists.

By Xocas' twitter (@xocasgv) I knew that Geoff McGhee, former The New York Times and now working as Multimedia Editor at Le Monde (Paris), leaves Europe to go back to USA. He has been awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship at the Stanford University. He will study data visualization tools for online jorunalists.
Other of the 12 awarded has been my colleague at InnovAtion Gabriel Sama, who will study about multiplatform publishing systems.

But there also movements here. We have made a new hiring atlainformacion.com. He has said something on his blog already. Carlos Gámez, who was working as head of infographics at ELPAIS.com joins the department of New Narratives, where I am Director.

And, although this is not a hiring, I may tell who happy I feel for The Boston Globe being saved, despite all the job cuts they will have to do. I've never read the paper, but just knowing how Javier Zarracina and hsi team works, is enough.

My last print graphic

Some pieces recovered, some new. This was my last print graphic. As I told you before, today was my first day at lainformacion.com, a project waiting to be released in some weeks...

Change

I leave Público and start a new adventure at www.lainformación.com. This is a new project, completely online, with the guiding of Mario Tascón and Vanessa Jiménez and that will be released in some weeks.

With Público I leave the print newspapers, very good friends, colleagues and great moments, although I think they won't miss me much, because they are some of the bests nowadays (and this is not just words, just take a glace and you will recognize them by their jobs).
Teh change doesn't come because I wanted to leave Público, but because I think is the perfect moment to keep learning and start a very tempting project.

So, from this moment you can have www.lainformacion.com saved on your bookmarks.

(Sorry, but mosts of the previous links are in spanish...)

More information
- Hoja de ruta (Spanish)
- Diximedia Digital (English)

Heraldo de Aragon loses all its infographics journalists

Trafalgar explained by Alberto Aragón

Luis Grañena and Alberto Aragón (Mandrake) have left Heraldo de Aragón,one of the big regional spanish newspapers, to start a new adventure with their new bussiness.
Grañena and Aragón are well known by their graphics, and they won the last gold medal at the ÑH, the awrds organized by the spanish chapter of teh SND to recognize the best design works of the years in Spain and Portugal. But what made them really famous were their illustrations. Local Estudio will be more focused on this discipline, so not just Heraldo de Aragón will miss them, the world of graphics could lose these great values.

Adding to all this, the third person of the departament, Isidro Gil, is now on the design team, so the infographics department is officially over.
This is a very bad new, not just for losing them, but for the sign that the newspaper makes with Gil's changing. They have no intention of hiring people to replace Grañena and Aragón. OK, we're in crisis, but you can't go to war leavibng some of your best weapons bahind. Not a very good example.


The spanish rock band 'Héroes del Silencio' as seen by Luis Grañena

The New York Times hires Xaquín González, 'Xocas'

It's official. Xaquín González Veiras, 'Xocas', leaves Newsweek and starts a new era at The New York Times, and as Graphics Editor. An impressive hiring, for both. I remember (I start a Grandpa Simpson story...) when I worked at La Voz de Galicia and my chief was Xoán González (Xocas' father), the person from whom I've learnt the most about infographics. I arrived after some years as student in the University of Navarre, collaborating with Malofiej on the big years of Jaume Serra at Clarin. Anytime I talked about Serra's graphics with him, he always said that The New York Times were still the best. He must be very glad and proud today. And NYT also should be glad. They have now one of the best online infographics journalists on its staff.

And good system that of The New York Times. There's a big crisis, its shares falls like dead bodies and they continue hiring some of te greatest professionals for its infographis department. Peçanha and Xocas in two months. A great messsage for infographics and a detail to comment to all the newspapers managing teams.

More at Xocas.com (in spanish).

Michael Agar, new head of infographics for the Telegraph Media Group

The Telegraph Media Group (Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph Online) has hired Michael Agar as head of infographics. Michael is one of the visible heads of the british infographics, and his work at The Independent on Sunday (which he leaves now) and The Observer is well known and recognized.
There's no doubt that the Telegraph wants to keep growing, and they see graphics as a great way to do it. A bet for visual communication. And Michael is the best person they could find for that. I don't know him personally, although I've talked with him several times as we both work as infographics consultants for InnovAtion and he has been a great 'source of knowledge' for me.
So, good news, for Michael Agar and for the Telegraph. And for infogrphics on UK, a country that seems to become (again) one of the references for infographics. Congratulations (everybody)!

Juan Antonio Giner talks about the hiring on Innovations in Newspapers

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The Merc fires Martin Gee... and Charles Apple leaves The Virginian Pilot

The author of this (and many others) sketchbook is Martin Gee. Just some days ago he was infographis artist and illustrator at The San Jose Mercury News, and one of the most known names of the infographics names on the USA infographics world. Despite all this, he has been fired, as part of the strange Merc politic.

You can know more on Charles Apple's bog, who is leaving The Virginian Pilot for new projects.

The summer starts with hirings

Yesterday, a comment by Alberto Cuadra on the spanish version of this blog told us a great new. Sergio Peçanha, Graphics Director at Dallas Morning News, is heading The New York Times. Congratulations to both. To Sergio for arriving to, possibly, the best infographics department in the world, and the NYT for hiring one spectacular artist and a great person.

And more locally, we also had movements on Público. Ana K. Landi left us the past may and now works for Xplane on its office in Madrid. Ana has been with us just some months, but she had time to be awarded with a bronze in Malofiej



We've already hired a sustitute for our department, Mónica Serrano, which I was lucky to work with a summer in Diario de Cádiz. She's already a good infographics artist, but her learning capacity is going to make a big one of her.

Good luck to everybody on their new jobs!


¡Mucha suerte a todos en sus nuevos trabajos!

Crisis, what crisis?

Everybody say we have one in the newspapers industry, and maybe that's true. But this is not what we can perceive from the hiring and movements in the infographics departments. After last year revolution, with some 'all-star hiring' as teh two made by National Geographic with Tumas (Clarín) and Baptista (El Correo). Pero no se nota en los movimientos de infografistas. Despué de la revolución del año pasado, en la que National Geographic fichó a Tumas (Clarín) y Baptista (El Correo), this year is beggining with other hits to the market.

Manolo Romero, Infographics Editor of Gurpo Joly and Diario de Sevilla, left his place in the andalusian newspaper to make his own bussiness, although he stays inside the infographics industry (if there is such industry)

Geoff McGhee, one of the 'historycal' members of NYTimes.com, start an european adventure at Le Monde, which could represent a revolution on the french media webs.

Mariano Zafra, infographic artist at El Mundo, goes to its main contendent, El País.

And all those whic have been and I didn't notice. And all that are still to come.

Congratulations to all, and the newspapers who hired them

Rafa Höhr, to Grupo Joly

One of the best online infographics artists (and also print) of the world has moved on. Rafa Höhr left the the online graphics team of ELPAIS.com to become the new Design Chief of the Grupo Joly webs (Grupo Joly is a regional newspapers groups of the south of Spain, with papers such as Diario de Cádiz or Diario de Sevilla, among others).
This way he comes back to the group where he began his career. He was infographics artist at Diario de Cádiz, and, after a short time in elmundo.es as one of the first online graphics artists in Spain and the world, he was hired by ELPAIS.com.
I must confess I have a special affection to Rafa, although e haven't met much. But my firsts steps in infographics were having him as reference. Mi first contat with infographics as aas Malofiej staff, and there I could see a Rafa's graphic about all the NATO power (ships, helicopter, planes...). And it impressed me. Then, my first ntership was that summer in Diario de Cádiz, where Rafa had just left. I had no idea about graphics and I need references for all. And all the archive was full with graphics made by him (and Rafa Estrada, whose isometric elements are still being used in the Joly papers). It looked for me imposible to make graphics the way I was seeing there. And, after a time, I realized that it actually was impossible.
I have no more to do that congratulate Grupo Joly for hiring one of the best online infographics artists of the world.
(image form Visualmente)

Some of his graphics (not the best ones, but which I've found)
- Juicio a De Juana Chaos
- Atentados 11S
- Grieta en la seguridad de Sony music

National Geographic hires in spanish or how success killed Spain

Two of the big ones of the world of infographics, Fernando G. Baptista, former El Correo, and Alejandro Tumas, from Clarín, have been hired by National Geographic, which spanish-talkers staff grows, cause they already have Juan Velasco ads Graphics Director.
The problem of the infographics brain drain is something worrying in Spain, where, after suffering these lasts year the american adverture of Cairo, Xocas, Zarracina and Baptista, have their referal infographics media "attacked", as were elmundo.es for online and El Correo dfor print.
The lack of these 'geniuses" in Spain in not just a harm for themselves, but also because new values have lost much of teh great potential teachers tehy could have. When Cairo take his way to Chapel Hill, left his 'pupil' Xocas at charge, but now he's gone too.
The infographics level in Spain is descending, maybe cause sucess is finally killing us.

Want to be Graphics Director?

The Detroit Free Press is hiring a new Graphics Director, so, if you're an infographics guru, it's time to go to one of th big ones. As Jonh Fleming, Deputy Graphics Director explains, they're looking for:
- someone who is concerned with content -- both visual and editorial -- and seeks to improve it at every turn.
- someone who performs well on deadline, with good communication skills and a team spirit.
- someone who understands a good story as well as a good photo.
- someone who seeks to simplify the complex and give depth and meaning to the routine.
- someone who can lead a veteran team of artists into the brave, new 3D and interactive world of information graphics.

More information here

Michael Agar moves from The Observer to The Independent on Sunday

Michael Agar, graphics director at The Observer moves to the The Independent on Sunday, working at the same position. Teh new has been released at Update, the SND blog.
Agar was president of the jury at Malofiej in 2005 and also works as adviser for Newcastle College and Innovation consultant, where his last work has been the colaboration on the redesign of the portuguese magazine Visao.
Update also says that Michael's wife has just give birth to a baby girl just one week ago. Congratulationa for both news