Alejandro Banuet

Claude Monet, The Luncheon, 1868.

Pierre Auguste Renoir, Les Grand Boulevards, 1875

Edgar Degas, Ballet Class, 1880

Vincent Van Gogh, Entrance to the Public Gardens in Arles, 1888.

Pablo Picasso, La Suze, 1912.

Pablo Picasso, Man with Hat, 1912.

Carlo Carra, Demonstration for Intervention in the War, 1914

Joan Miro, The Tilled Field, 1924

Arthur Dove, The Critic, 1925

In this three part series for BBC Radio 4, Kim Fletcher (British journalist and media consultant) asks: is it too soon to write the obituary of the newspaper?

The episodes will be available on line starting today.

Monday 5 November, 11.00am
A farewell to print
After 150 years of little change in the print industry, the last few years have witnessed a revolution as the internet increases its dominance on the media landscape. Readers’ attention and loyalties have become divided as papers compete with round the clock reporting and unmediated comment.

Tuesday 6 November, 11.00am
How journalism is changing
Kim Fletcher interviews Jessica Callan,the founding ‘3am girl’ on her coverage of the nightclubs of London, and the draw of celebrity journalism. And in a world where print journalists now broadcast online, Emily Bell of the Guardian discusses the impact of the internet on the print journalist.

Wednesday 7 November, 11.00am
The end of the age of influence
In 1992, after Labour’s unexpected defeat, The Sun’s headline proclaimed, ‘It was The Sun wot won it’. But what influence does the partisan press have, both in Westminster village and on the public? David Yelland, former editor of The Sun, and Peter Preston, former editor of the Guardian, discuss.

A few weeks ago, Robb asked me if promotions of CDs, DVD’s or books were a usual business in México’s newspapers. Not yet is the answer.

But in Spain there is a completely different story. In Quioscos Locos you can find all the promotions available besides the CDs, DVDs, books, encyclopedias or english lessons. You can find tableware, mp4 players, digital cameras, cell phones, home theaters, Zidane’s official t-shirts, PSPs, GPSs, sun glasses, lead soldiers and figures, music boxes, Winnie the Poohs, free lawyers services, dolls, spoons, bikinis, hats, sandals, insects in glass boxes, remote control cars and airplanes, toy trains, maps, robots and cuckoo clocks… But yesterday with El Pais appear what could be the best promotion ever in a newspaper.
All you have to do is to send via SMS the special code in your print edition and you could enter in a daily contest to win a Class A Mercedes Benz (from monday to saturday) and a loft in Madrid on sundays.