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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. 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. 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: 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 [...]

Feb. 14: A look at the Arizona Republic’s special centennial statehood edition (4)

Chris George — the news design team leader for the Arizona Republic at Gannett’s Phoenix Design Studio — tells us: Today, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, Arizona celebrates the 100th anniversary of its statehood. The Arizona Republic marks the date with a hefty centennial edition, chock full of special content. (And lots of color ads that met the color-page-count limits of [...]

Feb. 12: Two papers begin early 50th anniversary celebrations of John Glenn’s space flight

The 50th anniversary of America’s first astronaut in orbit won’t happen until Feb. 20 — that’s a week from tomorrow — yet two papers began their celebrations early with elaborate page-one displays today. — VINDICATOR Youngstown, Ohio Circulation: 44,952 Astronaut John Glenn was born in Cambridge, Ohio — a good 80 miles southwest of Youngstown — but his career as [...]

Feb. 10: Another amazing web site ad juxtaposition (1)

Our pal Yuri Victor tweets: Best ad juxtaposition ever. Ever. Internet over. Yep. That’s one for the Hall of Shame. That was Gawker, earlier today. Don’t look now, but it’s even worse now (4:40 p.m. EST): Geez. The Twitter icon holding the gun tacked directly beneath the Walking Dead logo. Surely that’s not intentional. Find Gawker here. Find a lot [...]

Feb. 9: What it’s like to sit in on a news meeting held in Afrikaans

From time to time, folks ask me what it was like working for months at a time in South African newspapers. It was a lot like working in U.S. newspapers, really. Except much of the time, everyone spoke Afrikaans. So attending planning meetings can be like going to a meeting in the U.S. in which they’re discussing, say, programming. Or [...]

Feb. 7: A look at the Washington Post’s huge political earmark story (3)

The big story today in Washington D.C.: The Washington Post launched the next big segment of its ongoing series in which they examine the personal finances of all 535 of our legislators in the House and the Senate. Today’s topic was huge: Earmarks. We used to hear a lot about “pork barrel” politics. That meant when a Congressperson or a [...]

Feb. 5: An inside view of today’s Super Bowl from the Indianapolis Star

Scott Goldman – director of digital and visuals at the Indianapolis Star – is on duty at the Super Bowl today. And he’s tweeting like mad. Around 3 p.m. EST, he tweeted: An hour later, he had found the Star‘s seats. He tweeted: Here is the view from those seats: Scott refers to Star sportswriter Phillip Wilson, who’s livechatting from [...]

Feb. 4: Save yourself some time Sunday

Don’t bother to watch the Super Bowl tomorrow night. The New York Giants’ official web site has already announced the Giants won. Or, at least, it did. Until someone apparently realized they had hit a wrong button and they took the page down. Read the whole story at Mashable. Thanks to David Sheets for tweeting about this tonight. — Back [...]

Feb. 3: The Associated Press needed a copy editor for its Super Bowl interactive

Tonight, I spotted this note from the Associated Press on Twitter. Ah, great! An interactive look at Super Bowl history. That would be a fun read tonight. So I gave it a look-see. That particular link the AP offered sent me to the web site of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where I settled in for a look at 45 years [...]

Feb. 3: Jon Fisch and Kevin Fujii — laid off last month by Seattle Times — are hired by MSN.com

Jon Fisch — laid off a month ago by the Seattle Times — writes via Facebook: Want a follow-up to your post about the Times laying us all off? Both Kevin Fujii and I have been hired by MSN.com. Kevin as a photo editor. I’ll be working as a content editor. Kevin started a few weeks ago. I start next [...]

Feb. 2: That premature Donald Trump + Newt Gingrich story? The NY Post has been there and done that. (2)

By now, you’ve probably seen this: A number of outlets today posted a story about inside sources telling them that Donald Trump planned to endorse Newt Gingrich as the Republican candidate for president. A little later, however, the story took a 180-degree turn. It’s Mitt Romney Trump intends to endorse, the story said. As of this afternoon, the Fox News [...]

Feb. 2: Inside the special Super Bowl section wrapped around today’s Indianapolis Star (2)

Earlier today, we took a look at great Super Bowl advance pages from Luke Knox of the Boston Globe. Now it’s time to check out a bit of the 24-page special section wrapping today’s Indianapolis Star. Director of digital and visuals Scott Goldman tells us: Design director Phil Mahoney gets the kudos for the cover design and most of the [...]

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