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Charles Apple: The Visual Side of Journalism

 

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March 26: Seriously: Take the equivalent of a graduate course in iPad design by reading this one article (3)

There are a lot of talented people in visual journalism. I write about them every day here in the blog. But then there are a few certain individuals who transcend visual journalism. Individuals who operate at a whole ‘nother level than the rest of us and who always will operate at that level. I’m thinking of geniuses like Karl Gude, [...]

March 22: amNewYork’s Christopher Sabatini to join People magazine

Christopher Sabatini — design director at New York City tabloid amNewYork –tells us: Starting Tuesday I will be at People magazine. I know I will be designing some part of the magazine and do some tablet stuff. But to be honest, I went in having applied for one thing and walked out having been told I would be doing a [...]

March 19: Oh, the Google ads you see when you travel

I zipped over to the Huntsville Times web site last night, in search of that paper’s front page. I didn’t find what I was looking for — that’s so often the case for that paper; I love the print edition but the web site is a mess. However, I did find myself laughing at the ad that inserted itself into [...]

March 14: USA Today’s Chloe Park leaving editorial design for the West Coast (1)

Chloe Park — a designer for USA Today‘s magazine division — is leaving journalism to work for a West Coast consultancy. She tells us: I’ll be working full-time for Curio Inc., a user experience design and development consulting company. I’m very excited about this opportunity not only because it’s based in the beautiful city of San Francisco… … but because [...]

March 9: Don’t just steal an image from Google to illustrate your story

In order to illustrate a story about fewer teens bothering to get driver’s licenses in Florida, Y100-FM in Miami just pulled something off of Google image search. Bad idea. More people are talking about that art element than are talking about the story itself. Check out the poor woman’s street address. Believe it or not, that’s a real license, issued [...]

March 8: The 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Ironclads (1)

You’ve probably heard of the infamous battle of the Civil War ironclads, the Monitor and either the Virginia or the Merrimack, depending on whether you attended high school south or north of the Mason-Dixon line. That battle — depicted here by lithographers Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives — happened 150 years ago Friday. When the Civil War began in 1861, [...]

March 6: Huntsville sports editor John Turner moving to the Sporting News

Sports editor John Turner of the Huntsville Times announced today via Facebook: I’ve accepted a position as Senior Digital Editor with The Sporting News and will be moving to Charlotte two weeks from today. I couldn’t be more excited for this opportunity, yet at the same time grateful for the chance The Huntsville Times took on me as a young [...]

March 6: Is it the shoes? It’s gotta be the shoes.

Just in time for this conference tournament season: Why it is that even some short guys can dunk a basketball. Click for a much larger view. Ah, it’s gotta be the shoes. Right? Wrong. It has more to do with the ass. Full disclosure: I’m six-foot-one. All I can dunk is a doughnut. And I don’t even do much of [...]

March 5: A superb Super Tuesday primer by the Washington Post

And it’s not a print piece, nor is it an interactive. It’s a video. Proving that news videos can be done well. Sometimes I wonder, given all the dreck I see out there. See if this Washington Post video doesn’t explain nearly all you need to know about tomorrow’s Super Tuesday races. You’re watching Chris Cillizza of the Post‘s the [...]

Feb. 29: A wonderfully entertaining advert for the Guardian’s open journalism

A brilliant bit of advertising was released today for the U.K. Guardian‘s “open journalism” initiative. Enjoy: Thanks to Tyler Dukes, managing editor of Duke University’s Reporters Lab for tweeting this today.

Feb. 27: There’s just no way this headline wasn’t intentional (2)

This wickedly funny headline comes from Second Front, the political blog of the alternative online magazine known as Weld for Birmingham. I spent some time poking around that site last night and I couldn’t find any other headlines that struck me nearly as edgy as that one. So perhaps this was purely a coincidence. Or not. Most likely not. — [...]

Feb. 23: A ‘replay’ of today’s Poynter chat with researcher Paul Bolls (3)

The Poynter live chat I hosted this afternoon with University of Missouri’s Paul Bolls went even better than I could have hoped. Paul and his team are studying something of great importance to visual journalists, especially those of us who design for the Web: Not how typography or photos play on the Web. Not how design affects how the reader’s [...]

Feb. 22: Coming Thursday: Psychological-driven web design with Missouri’s Paul Bolls (2)

Tomorrow, I’m hosting another live chat at the Poynter Institute’s web site. Our guest this time around: Paul Bolls, associate director of the Psychological Research on Information and Media Effects Lab at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. Using equipment that measures physiological responses in viewers, Paul is studying how the human brain perceives and processes news and advertising. [...]

Feb. 22: You’ll be glad to know that I’m real

Stop the presses, everybody. I’ve been declared a real, live human being and not a machine. I, for one, am relieved. I turn 50 in April. I think that’s when my Applecare warranty runs out. Judgment on my metallic fleshy ass has been passed by today’s cool online toy: Bot or Not, created by journalism students at the New School [...]

Feb. 22: ‘Trust us’? Why would we NOT trust the Washington Post? (3)

The folks at the Washington Post tweeted a few minutes ago: Wow. That certainly is an incredible photo of the Capitol, shot by Angela Pan — a reader, evidently. But that tweet sure seems like an odd choice of words. I mean, why would we not trust the post? Oh. Right. Refresh your memory of that little episode here. in [...]

Feb. 21: Excélsior’s Alexandro Medrano promoted to corporate-level position

Alexandro Medrano of Excélsior — one of the five publications recently named World’s Best Designed by the Society for News Design — has been promoted by Excélsior‘s corporate parent, Grupo Imagen. My tipster tells me that last week — the day before SND’s Best Designed was announced, in fact — Alexandro was appointed… …the new Director for Innovation and Development for [...]

Feb. 19: Two — count ‘em, two — big visuals projects in today’s Fort Myers News-Press

There were two — count ‘em, two — giant visuals projects in today’s News-Press of Fort Myers, Fla. And both of them are worthy of note. First up is an A-section look at Saturday’s Edison Festival of Light. Check out the great A1 photo by staffer John David Emmett of two local kids on a parade float. Click that or [...]

Feb. 18: An appreciative reporter brags on the designer who worked on his story (1)

Nashville Tennessean reporter Tony Gonzalez wrote Saturday: I wanted you to see the treatment of my Instagram story on A1 today. The story explores how locals who know each other only through Instagram photos will meet in real life today [Saturday]. Here’s the front page. Click for a larger look. Tony writes: Here’s a neat, subtle thing about the design: [...]

Feb. 18: Surely this will be the end of the ‘cute’ Jeremy Lin headlines (5)

I was hoping those Mad magazine parody Jeremy Lin headlines the other day might be the last word on that topic. But apparently not. Following Lin’s 9-turnover performance Friday night — which snapped the Knicks’ winning streak — ESPN decided to spit out one more attempt at a cute headline. A misguided attempt at a cute headline. I mean, really. Not [...]

Feb. 14: An elaborate marriage proposal in front of a news audience

This afternoon, Poynter’s Mallary Tenore wrote about the elaborate “infographic” marriage proposal Drake Martinet posted today for his sweetie, Stacy Green. The proposer — Drake — is social media editor for All Things Digital. The proposee — Stacy — is a vice president at Mashable. The graphic — more of an illustrated fact box, really; don’t get me started on [...]

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