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A visual look back at digital publishing in 2012

What kind of blog would Lean Back 2.0 be without an end-of-year list? In keeping with this tradition, here are the charts and infographics that best capture what 2012 meant for digital publishing. 1. The growing mobile landscape: Americans are increasingly reading news on their mobile devices. Source: Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in [...]

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Tags: 2012, ads, iPad, iPhone, smartphones, tablets

Infographic

Announcing the winners of the mobile news infographic challenge

A few months ago, The Economist Group and the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released new research confirming the important role that mobile devices play in how we get our news. The study found that the US has crossed a mobile threshold, with 50 percent of US adults now owning a tablet [...]

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Tags: data, infographic, mobile, mobile phones, news, Pew, smartphones, tablets

Tablets hold the promise of a measurable India

In September 2007, Haymarket Media launched the Indian edition of their advertising, marketing and media magazine, Campaign, of which I was the founding editor. For the first issue, I had requested Ogilvy’s Miles Young (now worldwide chairman and chief executive of Ogilvy & Mather) to write a guest editorial, given that he was “global”, yet [...]

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Tags: Apple, India, iPad, smartphones, tablets