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Archive for October 2011

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31: The conclusion of the Victoria Advocate’s Halloween-themed graphic novel

For each of the past four Sundays, the Victoria Advocate — a 28,300-circulation daily in Victoria, Texas — has published two full broadsheet-sized installments of a Halloween-themed graphic novel written and illustrated by staffer Robert Zavala and using images of local folks as “actors.” The first two installments were published Oct. 9. Click for a larger look:   The next [...]

31: The last World Series page of 2011 (1)

The St. Louis Cardinals took a “victory lap” parade Sunday. The Post-Dispatch, of course, documented the celebration in a big way today with a section and a poster cover that wrapped around its usual Monday edition. The best picture of the day turned out to be a horizontal, so the paper turned page one on its side and ran with [...]

31: When journalists dress up for Halloween (2)

A number of my journalist pals out there dressed up for various Halloween functions this year. A sampling of cool costumes that danced across my Facebook newsfeed this weekend… Ashley Kritzer, a reporter for the Jacksonville Business Journal, took part in a local run this weekend. She writes: I ran 10 miles through a cemetery dressed like this. I think [...]

31: Halloween pumpkin carving with the Apples

Here in the Apple household, we just love Halloween. We love the sounds and the smells. We love the spooky decorations. We love scaring the bejeezus out of graciously handing out candy to the neighborhood kids. Most of all, though, we love our annual pumpkin-carving exercise. It’s not nearly as elaborate as what some folks do. But we’ve been doing [...]

31: Birthdays for Monday, Oct. 31

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to four extraordinary visual journalists… Jonathon Berlin is design and graphics editor for the Chicago Tribune. A 1998 graduate of the University of Illinois, Jonathon began his career at the Times of Munster, Indiana. He became assistant design director of the Rocky Mountain News of Denver in 2001 and then joined the San Jose [...]

30: ‘Dilbert’ takes on ‘digital media curation’

Boy, is there a lot of truth in this one. That’s today’s Dilbert comic strip by Scott Adams. Previous times that strip has appeared here in the blog: Dilbert takes on creativity Dilbert takes on social media Dilbert takes on art departments Dilbert takes on aggregation Find Dilbert‘s home on the web here.

30: Birthdays for Sunday, Oct. 30

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to three excellent visual journalists… Lisa Mauch is pagination editor for the Community Press/Recorder, an edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer. A 1994 graduate of Miami University of Ohio, Lisa spent three years as a reporter for CityBeat and then four more years as an assistant editor for the Xavier University alumni magazine before signing [...]

29: Why PaidContent.org needs a copy editor

PaidContent.org — a site owned by Guardian News that provides “global coverage on the economics of digital content” — needs a copy editor to keep it from inserting questionable links into its news stories. Friday, the site posted a story about the consolidation going on at Cox Media Group. The story quoted my own story from Thursday night, which is [...]

29: Saturday’s World Series pages (3)

Man, was I sorry to see this World Series end. This one felt truly magical, despite the fact that I’m not a huge fan of either team. (I’m a Braves fan. As you know, the Braves tanked in the final month of the season, allowing the Cardinals to take away their Wild Card playoff spot.) __________ ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 6, [...]

29: Birthdays for Saturday, Oct. 29

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to three wonderful visual journalists… Jeffrey Bruner is wire editor of the Des Moines Register. A 1991 graduate of Drake University, Jeff spent four years as managing editor of the Tribune of Ames, Iowa. He moved to the Register in 2001. Find his Twitter feed here. Jeff turns 43 today. Diana D’Abruzzo is a [...]

28: Pittsburgh alt-weekly prints Spanish edition as a protest

As a protest, this week’s Spanish edition of the Pittsburgh City Paper will get plenty of attention. The edition is a reaction to yet another proposal by a state legislator — Republican RoseMarie Swanger — to make English the official language of the state. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s Mackenzie Carpenter reports: “We were having a little fun because this discussion always [...]

28: ‘Dewey defeats Truman’ all over again?

Fox2Now — Channel 2 in St. Louis — had a little fun today at the expense of its sister Fox station in Dallas. The station posted on its Facebook page earlier today: KDFW has a “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment last night. Whoops… Heh. Find the Fox2Now Facebook page here.

28: Geekazoid Friday: Kryptonite candy for Halloween

I can’t eat candy any more. If you can — and if you love Superman comic books — then try this for something to take to that weekend Halloween party. Enjoy! Thanks to Boing Boing for blogging this today.

28: Four great Halloween features page treatments (1)

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. One big reason why: You can have a lot of fun with it in the pages of your newspaper. Halloween isn’t until Monday, so I imagine we’ll see quite a bit of stuff this weekend. But let’s kick off the weekend right with four examples of newspapers setting the mood [...]

28: Countering Tim Tebow-mania, the Detroit way

You’ll recall the story, a couple of weeks ago, after Tim Tebow was named starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos. The Denver Post created a cute little action figure readers could cut out and build themselves: Very nice. This Sunday, the Detroit Lions are faced with the task of stopping Tebow. So what is a paper like the Detroit Free [...]

28: Friday’s World Series pages

Unbelievable. __________ ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 10, TEXAS RANGERS 9 Game 7: Tonight, 8:05 p.m. EDT at St. Louis Series tied, 3-3 Just when I thought we had seen all the drama we could see for one baseball season, Game Six came along. Surely, this will go down in sports history as one of the greatest games ever. Unless you’re a [...]

28: Birthdays for Friday, Oct. 28

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to two fine visual journalists… Linda Johnson is a senior copy editor for the Dallas Morning News. She’s a product of the University of Texas at Arlington. Alison Powers is an interactive designer for Nemours Children’s Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. A 2007 graduate of the University of Missouri, Alison served as a designer for [...]

27: It’s official: Cox Media to consolidate editing, design of its four major dailies (3)

Cox Media Group announced today something that’s been talked about but unconfirmed for months: It will consolidate copy editing and page design functions among its four major dailies. Those papers: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, circulation 183,415 Austin American Statesman, circulation 137,681 Dayton Daily News, circulation 94,709 Palm Beach Post, circulation 117,149       The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports today: Under the plan, [...]

27: Why Pittsburgh skywriters need copy editors

Pittsburgh-based skywriters need copy editors to keep them from making spelling errors. After all, there ain’t no backspace key in the air. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Tuesday: WQED-TV hired a skywriter to spell out their new documentary, Pittsburgh From the Air. But things got off to a slow start when “PGH” was spelled “PHG.” Here’s the accompanying photo by the [...]

27: Your next favorite Tumblr blog…

…will be this one: Newspaper Snack Machines. The blogger — who I won’t out here — writes: I work at a famous American newspaper. In September 2011, the snack machine went from “bland but respectable” to “where flavors go to die.” Here, I will depict the fall of print journalism through the plummeting quality of newspaper snack machine offerings. And [...]

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