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Archive for September 2011

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30: SND/STL: Make sure you visit the annual silent auction

The proceeds go to the SND Foundation to pay for scholarships and grants for students to attend things like this very event. Here’s how the annual silent auction works: Folks donate items. You check ‘em over and bid on them via a piece of paper. The winner gets the item. It’s that easy. There was a lot of great stuff [...]

30: SND/STL: Kicking off with Laura Stanton

I had the honor for filling in for the missing sherpa this morning for the day’s first print visual journalism speaker, Laura Stanton of the Washington Post. As I told the room here: I have very few infographics heroes left in the business. Laura is one of them. Even as I type this, she’s showing us a wonderful collection of [...]

30: SND/STL: Notes for Friday morning

Good morning, all. I don’t know about you guys, but I found Friday exhausting but exhilarating. The next two days are going to be a blur for all of us, I promise you. Things you’ll want to know about this morning… — DID YOU SET YOUR WATCH OR CELL PHONE CLOCK? Here in St. Louis, we’re on Central Time. If [...]

30: SND/STL: Folks looking to hire here in St. Louis (1)

While it seems like the entire industry is shedding people right and left, there are folks who are looking to hire. Some of them are here at the Society for News Design workshop in St. Louis this week. And some couldn’t make it. A few of them asked for a little help. Naturally, the blog is pleased to play matchmaker… [...]

30: Birthdays for Friday, Sept. 30

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to four wonderful visual journalists… Siyabonga Africa is online content manager for Indiana Public Media. A 2006 graduate of the University of Pretoria in South Africa, Siyabonga earned a graduate degree from the University of Stellenbosch and then worked as a reporter and a columnist for the Sowetan, Joburg Style magazine and ITWeb before [...]

30: SND/STL: This is why I love coming to Society for News Design workshops

Check this out: Two of my favorite people in the world: On the left is the award-winning Ryan Huddle, formerly of the Victoria (Texas) Advocate and now with the Boston Globe. Longtime blog readers will remember all the cool features packages he masterminded over the past few years. On the right is the award-winning Adonis Durado of the Times of [...]

29: A quick look at today’s baseball playoff pages

Well! While many of we visual journalists are en route to St. Louis for the Society for News Design conference, the regular baseball season ended with some of the most memorable fireworks ever. A  quick roundup of playoff pages… — ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH St. Louis, Mo. Circulation: 196,232 The hometown paper here in town was in a bind this week. [...]

29: Birthdays for Thursday, Sept. 29

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to six extraordinary visual journalists… Tan Ly is deputy news editor and business design director for the Washington Post. A 1996 graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Tan spent four years as a designer for the Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and then three more with the San Jose Mercury News before joining the [...]

28: SND/STL: Reporting live from St. Louis (1)

I’m in St. Louis this week for the annual workshop of the Society for News Design on Friday. The conference begins tomorrow will a number of full-day sessions on a number of topics. I’ll spend the afternoon in the college designer session, critiquing portfolios and offering career advice. Things really get going Thursday night with the official opening reception, down [...]

28: Finger lickin’ good? (3)

I’m not one who will normally check out the food page of a newspaper. So even if I had bought a New York Times at the airport today, I might not have spotted this. The anonymous tipster who sent me the link today says: NYT‘s food front illustration of an alluring skinned chicken is adorable. Reminds me of a Looney [...]

28: Why Gannett’s New York Central Media hub needs a copy editor (2)

New York Central Media — the Gannett subsidiary that puts out three newspapers in New York state — needs a copy editor to keep from misspelling names in its Sunday skyboxes. Like this one from two days ago: The name they were looking for, of course, is Today show co-anchor Hoda Kotb. Admittedly, it’s an unusual name. But that’s no [...]

28: Birthday for Wednesday, Sept. 28

Here’s wishing the happiest of Birthdays to Clif Page, a freelance photographer and designer in Pittsburgh, Pa. A 1977 graduate of Ohio University, Clif supervised the photo department at the New Castle (Pa.) News before joining the Beaver County Times in Beaver, Pa., in 1988. He spent 21 years there until the Times laid him off. Since then, Clif has [...]

27: For your consideration…

An interesting poster front page from the Daily Herald of Everett, Wash. The page was designed by the Daily Herald‘s Katie Mayer. She tells us: The photo is the tail of one of Boeing’s new 787s, with the livery of its launch customer, All Nippon Airways. The photographer is our Michael O’Leary. Since we started first started seeing and shooting [...]

27: Why the White House needs a copy editor (2)

The White House needs a copy editor. Preferably someone who can tell the difference between Colorado and Wyoming. Actually, I feel kind of bad about posting this one. I made the same mistake myself, once, in a graphic for the Des Moines Register. Our editor at the time — who had spent time at the Denver Post — wouldn’t let [...]

27: Florida Today of Melbourne, Fla., launches redesign (1)

Florida Today — a 67,970-circulation daily in Melbourne, Fla., — launched a redesign today. On the left is a front page from a month or so ago. On the right is today’s front.   See the changes? I think it’s fair to call them subtle at best. The rail is now a tint. Rules have been removed from everywhere except [...]

27: Here’s a plug for master photographer Matt Erickson

Wait a minute, I hear you say. Master photographer? Matt Erickson was a wonderfully successful news designer for the Times of Northwest Indiana in Munster. Won a big stack of awards. Left last summer to become a freelance sportswriter, primarily focusing on Mixed Martial Arts. Yes, that’s the MattE to whom I refer. He’s a master photographer. Even if he [...]

27: A guide to popular web infographic clichés (2)

I see a lot of “infographics” — really, more “data visualization” pieces that are more illustrated bullet-point boxes than anything else — on the web these days. And I see a lot of infographics about infographics. Folks like to send me links to these, thinking they might be good blog fodder. This one is one of the best — and [...]

27: An interesting way to localize that story about postage stamps

You probably saw the story from the Associated Press about the change in policy for postage stamps. Hope Yen and Stacy A. Anderson of the AP report: Who would you put on a stamp? Charlie Sheen? Lady Gaga? Yourself? Hoping to boost sagging revenue, the U.S. Postal Service on Monday abandoned its longstanding rule that stamps cannot feature people who [...]

27: Birthdays for Tuesday, Sept. 27

Here’s whiting the happiest of birthdays to six wonderful visual journalists… Elise Burroughs is a communications and event planning consultant based in Providence, R.I. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Elise spent six years as editor of Presstime magazine. She became director of technology conferences for the Newspaper Association of America in 2001 and then was executive director of [...]

26: Fox Sports apologizes for fake Chicago-area newspaper headlines (2)

By now, surely you know the story. But just in case… — SUNDAY, SEPT. 11 In a report aired during the fourth quarter of the season-opening Chicago Bears vs. Atlanta Falcons game, one of the Fox Sports broadcasters — former Cowboys player Daryl “Moose” Johnston — addressed media criticism of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler. Johnston said… These are the actual [...]

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