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Archive for May 2012

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31: You need a dirty mind to be a business editor (1)

Lee Steele of Hearst’s Bridgeport, Conn., hub found this today, reposted it on his Facebook timeline and called it… …A headline goof probably too dirty even for Charles Apple. Heh. Wrong. That’s pretty bad. Those of you considering phasing out your copy desks, take note: A newspaper or web site really needs to be able to catch something like this. [...]

31: Two more great examples of “why they need a copy editor” (2)

Two more great examples of “why they need a copy editor”… — Amy Goldstein — a copy editor for ESPN.com and herself a onetime participant in the Scripps Spelling Bee — passed along a tweet last night that asked: What is wrong with Fox News? I dunno. Looks like business as usual to me. (See examples one, two, three, four, [...]

31: San Antonio Express-News celebrates Spurs’ playoff history (1)

The San Antonio Express-News today published the third in a series posters depicting of Top 5 playoff moments in Spurs history. Here was today’s installment: David Robinson and Tim Duncan winning the 2003 NBA Finals. This ended Robinson’s career with a championship. I asked Express-News art director Adrian Alvarez to tell us the story behind these full-broadsheet-sized posters. Adrian replies: [...]

31: Longtime visuals editor Craig Newman named managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times

Longtime visuals editor Craig Newman was named managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times Wednesday. Crain’s Chicago Business quoted a staff memo from new editor-in-chief Jim Kirk: While overseeing the day-to-day operations of our news delivery, he will be responsible for helping move all of Sun-Times Media to a digital-first focus. Craig has touched all parts of the news operation as [...]

31: Birthdays for Thursday, May 31

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to six terrific visual journalists… Diane Cunningham works at the Times of Northwest Indiana in Munster. A graduate of Iowa State University, Diane turns 28 today. Hadley Gustafson is a videographer and web designer for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in Durham, N.C. A 1993 graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, [...]

30: The right tool, used in the right way and for the right assignment. And it’s an iPhone app. (1)

Here’s a fresh way to shoot your local high-school all stars: With an iPhone app. And it’s not Hipstamatic. Nor is it Instagram. Click any of these pages for a larger view: Rich Boudet — sports designer for the Seattle Times — tells us: Bettina Hansen is our new photographer on staff. She comes via the Hartford Courant. Bettina’s original [...]

30: About that famous “Drop dead” N.Y. Daily News headline…

As you may have heard by now, former New York Daily News editor-in-chief Michael O’Neill has passed away, the Associated Press reports. He was 89. The unbylined AP story states: O’Neill started at the Daily News in its Washington bureau in 1956 and rose through the ranks to become the top editor in 1975. His tenure included the period of [...]

30: Is this an error? Or is Groupon trying to be funny? (4)

Since we seem to be on a content-free rant today about errors… Do you suppose this is an error? Someone tried to update the text of a Mother’s Day ad, perhaps? Or are the folks at Groupon just trying to be funny in a way that is nearly guaranteed to go viral? The latter, I expect. And, I suppose, I’m [...]

30: Here are two more media outlets that need copy editors

After a busy Tuesday, there’s not much going on today in the world of visual journalism. Therefore, let’s triple up today and give you two more examples of who needs a copy editor… — Radio consultant Scott Fybush sends along this screencap of weekend anchor Lester Holt, from Sunday’s NBC Nightly News. Lester is obviously talking about that YouTube proposal [...]

30: Why the Mitt Romney campaign needs a copy editor

The Mitt Romney campaign released a new app Tuesday that allows you to… well, to share pictures with slogans superimposed over them — slogans in support of Mitt Romney for president. One little problem, though. At least one of the overlay templates has a fundamental defect, of sorts: A better Amercia? How about a better spellchecker! Naturally, as soon as [...]

30: Birthdays for Wednesday, May 30

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to four excellent visual journalists… Benjamin Brink has been a staff photographer for the Oregonian of Portland, Ore., for more than 21 years. He’s a 1977 graduate of Ohio University. Find his Twitter feed here. Anisha Frizzell is a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She’s a 1992 graduate of Northwestern University. Jeff Goertzen is [...]

29: Looks like the Indianapolis Star has a new fan (1)

The proud folks at the Indianapolis Star are passing around this photo today, taken by Brian Spurlock of US Presswire. That is movie star Ashley Judd, admiring Monday’s 12-page special wrap around the Indianapolis Star. After all, her husband — Dario Franchitti — won his third Indy 500 Sunday. I can’t help but want to have some fun with this, [...]

29: NPPA’s Photojournalist of the Year: Ross Taylor of the Virginian-Pilot

The Virginian-Pilot‘s Ross Taylor was named Photojournalist of the Year  — for “large-market” papers — today by the National Press Photographer’s Association. Ross always does amazing stuff. But among the best work I saw this year was this result of two weeks in Afghanistan, following the staff of a NATO hospital. Click for a much larger view of that 19-year-old [...]

29: The weirdest front-page illustration you’ll see today (2)

Today’s weirdest front page is most definitely this one from the Philadelphia Daily News. The story by staffer Jason Nark is about a possible resurgence in the use of LSD as a recreational drug. Seriously. That’s his name. As if this couldn’t get any weirder. That cover though: Whoa, dude. Ben Franklin on LSD. He looks like a cross between [...]

29: New S.F. Examiner design director promoted from within

The San Francisco Examiner announced today is is promoting arts and entertainment and special projects designer Brooke Robinson to design director. An unbylined story posted today reports that Brooke will oversee design at both the Examiner and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, which the Examiner is in the process of buying. The story states: Since joining the newspaper in 2008, [...]

29: Bad timing on error makes for cross words in Canada

Normally, this might be pretty funny: That’s one of the two crossword puzzles in today’s National Post of Toronto, Canada. Someone goofed up and ran the answers in place of the puzzle itself. What makes this worse than usual: The timing. Just last night, Postmedia Network — the publisher of a number of Canadian dailies including the National Post — [...]

29: Who needs a copy editor? Tag: Maryland is it.

Bob Dillier — a journalism instructor for the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Md. — writes this morning to tell us: Maryland, in its infinite wisdom, eliminated metal temporary car tags and replaced them with a printable template dealers could copy onto an 8 x 11 sheet of white paper, then tuck into a plastic bag for display. But [...]

29: Birthdays for Tuesday, May 29

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to four brilliant visual journalists… Dave Elbert is a retired business editor and columnist. He stepped down in April after more than 30 years of reporting and editing business news in central Iowa with the Des Moines Register. Dave turns 65 today. Joey Kirk is lead designer for High Gear Media of Palo Alto, [...]

28: Today’s 11 best Memorial Day front pages

Here’s a look at the best page-one Memorial Day treatments, as found at the Newseum… — OMAHA WORLD-HERALD Omaha, Neb. Circulation: 135,282 The World-Herald today took a look back at the Cold War with this front page file photo of a soldier watching a B-52 returning to Guam from a bombing mission in 1966. The picture refers to a 12-page [...]

28: Getty Images updates its watermark

Getty Images is changing its watermark from an obtrusive logo plastered across a photo to something actually helpful: A direct link to the image. Also included in the new watermark: The photographer’s name. This brief video explains all. Thanks to PetaPixel for blogging about this today.

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