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Archive for July 2010

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31: NYT’s Hannah Fairfield named graphics director of the Washington Post

Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli and managing editors Raju Narisetti and Liz Spayd announced a number of adjustments in the Post‘s visuals leadership, starting with yet another huge, new hire: We are delighted to announce that Hannah Fairfield will become our Graphics Director. Hannah has been a graphics editor at The New York Times since 2000 and moved to [...]

31: Shadowing Meg Lavey as she designs A1 in Harrisburg (2)

My teaching expedition this week to Harrisburg, Pa. — at the Patriot-News, circulation 77,598 — has coincided with my good friend Meg Lavey‘s first few days designing A1. Megan, you might recall, is a talented writer, editor and designer. Her career took her from the Selma (Ala.) Times-Journal to the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier to the Lewiston, Maine, Sun Journal [...]

31: ‘I can haz cheezburger’ in Victoria, Texas

Friday, I received another shipment of PDF pages from my pal Ryan Huddle of the Victoria (Texas) Advocate, circulation 33,549. Ryan is the Advocate‘s design director. With a background primarily in Advertising and promotional design. Ryan has spent the past few years getting more and more involved in editorial design, via the Advocate‘s weekly M3 entertainment tabloid. Victoria’s M3 teammates, [...]

31: Alex Fong returns to the San Jose Mercury News (1)

Alex Fong is returning to the San Jose Mercury News, reports Merc design director Tiffany Pease. Tiffany and AME for production Ron Kitagawa announced Thursday: Please join me in congratulating Alex Fong — yeah, the guy with the bow-tie — who is the new deputy design director for the Mercury News and its San Mateo edition. Alex joined the BANG [...]

31: Birthdays for Saturday, July 31

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to two wonderful visual journalists… Lynn Hicks is executive business editor of the Des Moines Register in Iowa. A 1991 graduate of Drake University in Des Moines, Lynne joined the Register as a copy editor, moved to a reporting position in 1997 and then was promoted to assistant metro editor in 2000. A year [...]

30: How to promote a redesign (1)

JCK — a trade magazine that caters to the jewelry business — launched a redesign in June with this neat little trick: Yep. Got my attention. The photo was passed along to me via Facebook. I can’t find it online anywhere to read more about the promotion. You can read about the redesign itself, though, here.

30: For your consideration…

You’ve seen this, right? The new issue of Time magazine? The horrifying picture is by South African photog Jodi Bieber. Time‘s Aryn Baker writes: Now hidden in a secret women’s shelter in Kabul, [18-year-old] Aisha listens obsessively to the news. Talk that the Afghan government is considering some kind of political accommodation with the Taliban frightens her. “They are the [...]

29: A wonderful breaking news map centerpiece from the Idaho Statesman (1)

So here I am in Harrisburg, Pa., teaching visual journalism at the Patriot News. On today’s (Wednesday’s) schedule was two beefy presentations to various newsroom folks and a half-day of intensive map training with two staffers. But before I got to any of this today — while cruising through the Newseum over breakfast — I stumbled across this page from [...]

29: Critters gone wild in Dubuque, Iowa

Is this a fun photo or what? Click for a larger view, of course. That’s a man walking his geese around the Dubuque (Iowa) County Fair on Wednesday. The photo — a real keeper, I think — is by Dubuque Telegraph-Herald staffer Jeremy Portje. Who doesn’t like geese? This li’l tyke, evidently: Wonderful stuff today (Thursday) afront the Telegraph Herald, [...]

29: One of the smarter — and scarier — things I’ve read lately (4)

Navneet Alang of the TECHi blog wrote a few weeks ago about old media vs. new media. Most posts along these lines I find laughable. They teach us nothing; they steer us nowhere. All much of the writing on this topic does is show us the personal bias and preference of the author. This one, however, rang true. So please [...]

29: Birthdays for Thursday, July 29

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to four dynamite visual journalists… Bill Marx is senior NASCAR editor at the Sporting News in Charlotte, N.C. A 1982 graduate of the University of Central Florida, Bill spent 16 years as a copy editor and then chief of the sports copy desk at the Orlando Sentinel. He moved to St. Louis in 1992 [...]

28: Have Hawaiian shirts, will travel (1)

I’m in Harrisburg, Pa., this week teaching infographics and other visual journalism-related topics at the Patriot News. It’s been a few months since I went out on a teaching gig. It’s easy for me to forget just how colorful my traveling wardrobe is: I don’t have very far at all to travel for today’s sessions. The new suburban offices of [...]

28: This talker is courtesy of Martin Gee (1)

Here’s was the Tuesday features tab cover by Martin Gee of the Boston Globe: Martin posted to his Facebook page yesterday that the story is about… …how porn is twisting our attitudes about sex. (It’s) my headline too! To get the full effect, though, you have to look at the art from a distance. Or squint. Let’s take another, smaller [...]

28: Birthdays for Wednesday, July 28

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to four superlative visual journalists… Liza Albrecht is editor of Rapport, the Afrikaans-language national Sunday paper of South Africa published by Media24 in Johannesburg. Liza is a 1993 graduate of Stellenbosch University near Cape Town. Michael Dupras is web development editor for the Post-Standard of Syracuse, N.Y. A 1994 graduate of the State University [...]

27: Today’s USA Today, take two

As I reported earlier… At an I-64 westbound rest stop — just before I got to Richmond — I found this in a USA Today newsrack: That’s the weekend edition from Friday. And today is Tuesday. Not good. At my next rest stop, however — on I-95 between D.C. and Baltimore — I found another USA Today rack. Curious, I [...]

27: On the road today to Harrisburg, Pa.

I’m sitting in a McDonald’s, just off I-95 in Fredericksburg, Va. Where, evidently, a race car has burst through the wall and is threatening to crush two women: Boogedy, boogedy, boogedy! Don’tcha just love the fake drywall exploding outward? The car isn’t terrifically rendered, but it’s darned near actual size. Which adds to the effect. Sharp-eyed blog readers will note [...]

27: An interview with the NYT graphics braintrust

Gestalten TV recently conducted an interview with Steve Duenes and Archie Tse, leaders of the infographics geniuses of the New York Times. Enjoy: In case the video doesn’t work, find it online here.

27: Cool things you can do with discarded newspapers (1)

Tucson, Ariz., artist Nick Georgiou knows what you can do with your old newspapers. And books, too, for that matter. Turn ‘em into fine art: Wendy Campbell of the Daily Art Fixx blog quotes Nick as saying: Books and newspapers are becoming artifacts of the 21st century. Whatever we used to read off paper, we’re now reading off digital screens. [...]

27: Birthdays for Tuesday, July 27

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to four outstanding visual journalists… Monica Moses is editor in chief of American Craft magazine in Minneapolis. A graduate of St. Olaf College in Minnesota, Monica worked at the Anchorage (Alaska) Times, the Arkansas Gazette of Little Rock and Gannett Suburban Newspapers in Rochester, N.Y. before becoming assistant managing editor of the Rochester Democrat [...]

26: Today’s witty headline courtesy of the Beaver County (Pa.) Times (4)

A few papers put the reported departure of BP CEO Tony Hayward on the front page today. But no one did it with more style than did the Beaver County Times of Beaver, Pa., circulation 32,905: Pure genius.

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