« Older Entries  |  Front page

Charles Apple: The Visual Side of Journalism

 

Archive for December 2010

Number of comments in parentheses

31: Fargo Forum’s Rob Beer leaping to online side

Rob Beer — presentation editor of the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, N.D. — is moving to the online side, he tells us. Rob wrote us earlier this week: I’m starting Jan. 3 as online editor of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, a newly created position. I spent the last four years as presentation editor and the past 20 years in the print [...]

31: Indy Star’s Sam Riche leaving newspapers

The newspaper world loses yet another talented person. The Indianapolis Star‘s Scott Goldman passed along an announcement from director of photography Mike Fender: OK… the headline here is that Sam Riche is leaving the Star for a position as a senior multimedia developer with Clarian Hospitals. Now… the rest of the story. I have a letter from Sam dated Sept. [...]

31: Birthdays for Friday, Dec. 31

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to a pair of fabulous visual journalists… Ryan Huddle is creative director of the Victoria Advocate in Victoria, Texas. A graduate of Collins College in Phoenix, Ryan spent seven years as a designer and creative services coordinator for the Hutchinson (Kan.) News. He moved to the Brown Publishing Company in Troy, Ohio in 2003 [...]

30: Why the New York Post needs copy editors (1)

The New York Post needs copy editors to keep it from making mistakes like this one: That was the the way the splash page of the Post‘s web site appeared for at least a couple of hours earlier today. Thanks to Ernie Smith for the tip. You know who else needs copy editors? The Virginia general assembly. And college alumni [...]

30: Gannett hires fourth of five design hub managers

The Gannett Design Studio director for Louisville has been hired: Jim Kirchner, longtime copy desk manager for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Courier-Journal executive editor Bennie Ivory announced back on Dec. 17: This is a promotion that Jim richly deserves as he was the chief architect of the current design hub, which includes Louisville, Asheville and Greenville. Jim will assume his new [...]

30: Birthday for Thursday, Dec. 30

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to Emiliano Ponzi, a free-lance illustrator working out of Milan, Italy. Emiliano’s work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books and advertising. His clients include United Airlines, Business Week, Newsweek, Le Monde, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. He’s won a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators and a gold and [...]

29: Covering the blizzard of 2010, day three

Sorry I’m posting so late today. I zipped up to D.C. for a meeting this week and my wife, Sharon, played chauffeur. Our trip back home today featured a layover at Potomac Mills outlet mall. — Seth Mates — news art director for Newsday — writes: Not sure why it didn’t make the Newseum, but wanted to pass along today’s [...]

29: Birthdays for Wednesday, Dec. 29

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to three wonderful journalists… Steve Cavendish is an editor/designer for the Chicago Tribune, working primarily for the features sections. A 1993 graduate of Belmont University in Nashville, Steve served as assistant design editor for the Nashville Banner before moving to the San Jose Mercury News as A1 designer. He later became the Merc’s news [...]

28: Covering the blizzard of 2010, part two

The blog received some nice feedback on yesterday’s roundup of blizzard front pages. Naturally, we’ll have to follow that up with a sequel, using pages posted at the Newseum. We’ll start out with this fun, fun photo by Michael Conti of the Fayetteville Observer. Isn’t that terrific? Click that — or any of today’s pages — for a closer look. [...]

28: An unusual day-after-Christmas page in Huntsville, Ala.

When I asked Paul Wallen — design director of the Times of Huntsville, Ala., circulation 47,107 — to send me a high-rez copy of his Sunday front, he sheepishly replied: I have to admit, I’m feeling a little bit like an attention hog. The reason: I’ve written so much lately here in the blog about Paul and his paper. Like [...]

28: Birthdays for Tuesday, Dec. 28

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to five wonderful visual journalists… Brandon Dingess is a designer for the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. A 2004 graduate of Marshall University, Brandon spent two years as editor of the Parthenon, Marshall’s student paper, before becoming a page designer and copy editor for the Herald Bulletin of Anderson, Ind. He moved to the Charleston (W.Va.) [...]

27: Covering the blizzard of 2010

Truly, I feel like I’m back in Iowa again. This is just amazing. And I’m so glad we decided to drive overnight Christmas rather than wait until Sunday. I’m sure we would have been stranded somewhere along I-95. I’ve seen reports that Hampton Roads got a foot or more. Here at the Apple household in Virginia Beach, the total on [...]

27: Birthdays for Monday, Dec. 27

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to five superlative visual journalists… Tim Ball is a sports designer for the Washington Post. A product of the City College of San Francisco, Tim has worked at a number of papers including the San Antonio Express-News, the San Jose Mercury News, the Wisconsin State Journal, the Indianapolis Star, the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and [...]

26: Christmas with the Apple family (1)

So, after all that hustle and bustle of working in South Africa for six weeks and then the problems I had getting home, you’d think I’d want to spend my three-week Christmas break relaxing. And, y’know, I did want to spend it relaxing. If I could. But I can’t. There are too many things to do and too many people [...]

26: Birthdays for Sunday, Dec. 26

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to four terrific visual journalists… Jason Boyd is an associate editor for Sporting News magazine in Charlotte, N.C. A product of East Carolina University, Jason worked as a sports copy editor for the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Ga., before joining Sporting News in 2008. Jason turns the big 4-0 today. Scott Goldman is senior editor [...]

25: Birthdays for Saturday, Dec. 25

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to Brian Root, a team leader for reporters at the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va. A 1990 graduate of Washington & Lee University, Brian served as managing editor of the Bulletin of Martinsville, Va., before moving to the Newport News Daily Press in 2003. He jumped across the James River to the Pilot three years [...]

24: A ho, ho, ho’le bunch of Christmas Eve page treatments (1)

A number of papers judged their local news scene this week to be sufficiently unnewsy enough to devote their fronts to a feature treatment for Christmas Eve. The Houston Chronicle — circulation 343,952 — ran a collection of faces of kids who were visiting with a local mall Santa: The pictures were by staffer Mayra Beltrán. In particular, check out [...]

24: Birthdays for Friday, Dec. 24

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to a pair of wonderful visual journalists… Tyson Evans is an interface developer with the New York Times. A 2005 graduate of UCLA, Tyson spent his senior year as editor-and-chief of the Daily Bruin before striking out as a news design intern for the Los Angeles Times. Later that year, he went to work [...]

23: How the Des Moines Register covered the death of Bob Feller (7)

Bob Feller was a huge, huge baseball star back in the day. That day was in the 1940s. He was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 — the year I was born. Still, Iowans are very proud of this guy. So when he passed away last week, the Des Moines Register published a four-page special section that [...]

23: Birthday for Thursday, Dec. 23

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to Michael Higdon, an editorial designer for Swift Communications of Reno, Nev. A 2009 graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, Michael worked a summer internship with the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Nev., was a Pulliam Fellow at the Indianapolis Star and an summer fellow at the Poynter Institute. He also did some work for [...]

« Older Entries