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Charles Apple: The Visual Side of Journalism

 

‘Particular newspapers’ archive

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today: A look at today’s notable Oklahoma tornado front pages

In the future, whenever you think of the horrifying tragedy Monday in Oklahoma, you’ll remember this image: That was shot in Moore, Okla., by Sue Ogrocki of the Associated Press. Sue’s first-person story is downright chilling: I expected chaos as I approached the piles of bricks and twisted metal where Plaza Towers Elementary once stood. Instead, it was calm and [...]

May 17: For your consideration…

Heh. That image is from the Newseum. Of course.

May 16: You gotta wonder, sometimes, about Google ads

At one point Wednesday, I clicked on a link to a story at the Chicago Tribune about the unfolding IRS scandal. What I found fascinating were the ads the Tribune added to my news. First is that Amazon ad across the top. I had been searching for “Harry Truman” earlier in the day. Google knows that and stripped an ad [...]

May 16: Three features treatments for the ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ movie (2)

Tonight, the new Star Trek Into Darkness movie opens around the country. In fact, it actually opened last night on some Imax screens. Most of the reviews I’ve seen are pretty decent. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for Saturday, which is the first chance I’ll have to see it. In the meantime, here are a few [...]

May 14: Two cool Sunday sports fronts from San Diego

This page caught my eye Sunday in the Facebook timeline of U-T San Diego. Click for a much larger view: Design director Peter Nguyen tells us: The concept actually came from Anthony Tarantino (former sports designer, current A1 designer) during one of our group brainstorms. Brainstorming is an important part of our process, because I feel the best ideas come [...]

May 13: Today’s media must-read

The New York Times‘ David Carr — in a story entitled Newspaper monopoly that lost its grip — completely disassembles Advance Publications: The name Times-Picayune, which had stood for quality and civic constancy for decades, does not mean the same thing anymore. The vaunted Web site that was to be the lifeblood of the new enterprise remains a creaky mess, [...]

May 13: A look at the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Sunday missing persons wrap

Sunday, I took note of the front-page treatment by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Here it is again: Find my ode to this page — and especially to the story downpage — here. Today, I offer a correction of sorts. That was officially the front page of Sunday’s Plain Dealer and the front page that appeared at the Newseum. But that [...]

May 12: Forget the ‘feel good’ Mother’s Day story. This one is heartbreaking and powerful. And important.

As you might imagine, the Plain Dealer today led with a look back to the huge story of the week, adding details, updates and perspective to the horrifying story on the three teenaged girls who were kidnapped and then held in chains and ropes for up to a decade. These stories are powerful and I recommend them highly. But what [...]

May 10: Let’s go surfin’ now. Everybody’s learning how. Come on a safari with me.

Wednesday, the newspaper I work for — the Orange County Register — ran a terrific graphic on the back page of sports that explains some of the finer points of how to surf. First, put on some Ventures or the Beach Boys. And then click this for a much larger view: These graphics were reported, written and drawn by the [...]

May 9: A skinny governor of New Jersey, thanks to a page-one photoillustration

One of my blog readers asked Wednesday: This seems…wrong. Do you have thoughts? The page she was referring to was this photoillustration afront the Asbury Park Press. That’s New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is famously overweight and who had banding surgery on his stomach earlier this year in hopes of losing weight. The illo — by Jeff Colson of [...]

May 9: Ethics? What ethics? State-of-the-art photo retouching tips from 1946 (2)

The find of the day: An instruction manual on how to retouch photos for publication, published in 1946. The PetaPixel blog posted a number of pages from this book, Shortcuts to Photo Retouching For Commercial Use, by Raymond Wardell. PetaPixel’s Michael Zhang writes: Think of it as a “Photoshop 101″ book for photographers who came more than half a century [...]

May 8: Inside the Plain Dealer’s kidnapping rescue coverage (2)

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past two days, you’ve seen the amazing news out of Cleveland: Three women were rescued after being kidnapped and held captive in a house for a decade. Here’s how the Plain Dealer played the story on page one Tuesday: The lead art — of family members of one of the women celebrating [...]

May 6: A really cool interactive look at baseball salaries by the LA Times

Illustrator and cartoonist Greg Kelly tips us off about this really cool interactive graphic posted recently by the Los Angeles Times. This presentation breaks down the salary teams pay at each position and presents it in bubble chart format. Or, rather, half-bubble chart format. Because the really cool thing is the ability to dial up any two teams you want [...]

May 6: Move over, Batboy: Meet Van Meter’s winged ‘Visitor’

My old pal Nathan Groepper, creative director of the Gannett Design Studio in Des Moines, Iowa, writes: I thought this might appeal to your offbeat sensibilities. The Des Moines Register [ran on Saturday] a story about a sighting of a giant winged monster in a small town in Iowa 110 years ago. The mysterious creature was discovered in a coal [...]

May 5: A look at this weekend’s Kentucky Derby front pages

Both Lexington and Louisville went with illustrations on the covers of their Saturday newspapers to advance yesterday’s 139th running of the Kentucky Derby. The Lexington Herald-Leader put this wonderfully graphic illustration by Chris Ware on the front, showing roses falling upon the downs. Meanwhile, the Courier-Journal of Louisville went with a photoillustration of a trainer who had five horses running [...]

May 2: Victoria, Texas, has some fun with the new summer super-hero movies

Assistant presentation editor Luis Rendon of the Victoria (Texas) Advocate, writes to show us what he and the crew of Get Out — the Advocate‘s weekly entertainment tab — did for today’s edition. Luis writes: We originally had planned to focus on a Cinco de Mayo story, but changed course when we realized that Iron Man 3 was coming out this [...]

April 30: Inside the Boston Globe’s eight-page ’102 Hours in Pursuit’ project

I mentioned this past weekend that the Boston Globe ran a comprehensive recap of the events of two weeks ago. The project kicked off on page with with this fabulous picture of the second explosion going off by Globe staffer David L. Ryan. Assistant managing editor Dan Zedek sent us the inside pages for the 102 hours project. These pages [...]

April 30: Maybe Martha should just call Tim

As much as I dislike the New York Post — and whatever it is that passes for journalistic ethics there — I have to grudgingly admire its headline writing today. Curious, I had to go read that Martha Stewart story. That’s not what she said at all. However, she did come out and tell the Today show yesterday that she [...]

April 30: Six months after Sandy, the N.Y. Daily News looks at a ‘ghost town’

This weekend was the six-month anniversary of Sandy. The New York Daily News — which, you might be aware, lost its headquarters in the superstorm — observed the landmark Monday with these aerial photos of the Breezy Point section of Queens, where more than 100 homes burned to the ground after the storm. The Daily News‘ Kevin Coughlin — who [...]

April 29: Fargo Forum’s Bill Wambeke moving to Des Moines’ Gannett Design Studio

Nathan Groepper, creative director of the Gannett Design Studio in Des Moines, emailed his staff Friday: I am thrilled to announce the Design Studio has hired Bill Wambeke. Bill has earned attention from around the country for his creative work as Presentation Editor of the Forum in Fargo, N.D. You can find a portfolio of his pages here. Many of [...]

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