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May 23: Omaha’s Jay St. Pierre moving to Chicago Tribune’s RedEye

Sports designer extraordinaire Jay St. Pierre announced via Facebook this week: Well, it’s official: I took a design job at RedEye, a Chicago Tribune publication, and am moving to The Windy City in June!!! It’s been an amazing two years in Omaha, and I cannot thank the people at The World-Herald enough for everything they did for my career. A 2009 [...]

May 21: A look at today’s notable Oklahoma tornado front pages (2)

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 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 [...]

April 19: I second the motion

  Way to go, RedEye, for putting into words — and visuals — what all of us are thinking today. RedEye, of course, is the free commuter+youth tab published daily by the Chicago Tribune. Its average daily distribution is about 250,000. That front page is from the Newseum. Of course.

April 16: A look at today’s best and not-quite-the-best Boston bombing front pages (6)

As you’re already aware, the Boston Globe and its photography staff rose to the challenge of yesterday’s bombings during the Boston Marathon. Pictures by staffers John Tlumacki and David L. Ryan appeared in papers around the world, bringing the horror and the emotion home for readers everywhere. Here’s a quick review of some of the day’s notable front pages… — [...]

April 15: Bad news: An error in display copy above the fold on page one (1)

An anonymous blog reader sends us a picture of his Sunday Chicago Tribune. Pay particular attention to the little deck beneath the Cubs video screen headline: That might be a little hard to see at that size, so here’s a blowup of the last three words of the deck. You see the problem, right? Wrigley is misspelled. It’s embarrassing enough [...]

March 8: In this month’s Chicago Tribune photo app: Vintage celebrity photos

First a bit of news. And then a funny story that might — but, more likely, might not — be related. My friends in the photography department of the  Chicago Tribune launched an iPad app earlier this year. This is a monthly e-magazine. According to the Tribune‘s marketing materials: Inside each edition you’ll find the most compelling news, sports, features, [...]

Feb. 12: A look at today’s most outstanding Pope Benedict XVI pages (1)

Huge news broke Monday morning: The Pope is resigning. Pope Benedict XVI will be the first pope in 598 years to resign, as opposed to dying in office. This move — along with the baggage the Catholic church is carrying around these days — made for huge play atop page one of today’s New York Times. That picture by L’Osservatore [...]

Jan. 29: Sure. They bring in a huge bar 14 years after I leave the place.

This is terrific news for folks in downtown Chicago. It’s even better news if you work at the Chicago Tribune and you’re too damned lazy to walk across the street and descend below street level to visit the famous Billy Goat Grill and Tavern. Opening in the next Month or so on the first floor of Tribune Tower on Chicago’s [...]

Jan. 14: Clever headline alert

Slightly naughty, but mostly funny. That’s how I’d describe the headline afront today’s RedEye, the free commuter+youth tabloid published daily by the Chicago Tribune. The headline refers to the hosts of last night’s Golden Globe award telecast, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. I’d love to dish out credit for this minor piece of genius today, but my one and only [...]

Jan. 7: Inside the Chicago Tribune’s BCS title game pregame coverage

Associate managing editor for sports Mike Kellams send along — for our viewing pleasure — the first six pages of the sports section of today’s Chicago Tribune, in which the paper previews today’s BCS Championship bowl game. He tells us: No special section, just regular Sports space. But that was hardly a handicap, as you’ll see. Here’s the front cover, [...]

Jan. 1: Inside the Chicago Tribune’s Lovie Smith special section

Monday was a huge news day in Chicago. The Chicago Bears fired their coach, Lovie Smith — one of only three winning coaches the team has had in my lifetime. Naturally, this made for the centerpiece story on page one of today’s Chicago Tribune… …but it did not make page one of today’s sports front, where college football held court [...]

Dec. 31, 2012: Why I’ve been following the Tribune bankruptcy case so closely (1)

Today, the Chicago Tribune Company emerged from bankruptcy, four long years after it was driven there by the inept (at best; evil at worst) actions of then-owner Sam Zell and his minions. I’ve had a unique front-row seat throughout the entire debacle. Let me explain… Four years ago, I sold one of my election graphics to a Tribune-owned newspaper. I [...]

Dec. 3, 2012: Breaking down a huge ‘fiscal cliff’ graphic from the Chicago Tribune (3)

One day last week, I heard from a longtime editing expert who had a complaint about a full-page graphic offered by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services in Washington, D.C. He though the graphic was a mess and, I think, he hoped I think so, too. And, sure ’nuff, when I first looked at it, I thought: Whoa! Too much! I put the [...]

Nov. 26, 2012: RedEye creative genius Trent Koland leaving newspapers for the world of advertising

Trent Koland of the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye commuter tabloid announced tonight via Facebook: Big life news that I can officially make official now: I have accepted a position with Leo Burnett and I will be leaving the RedEye. It was a difficult and hard decision to make, but one that I make with great excitement and hope for my professional [...]

Nov. 6, 2012: Today’s five best Election Day front pages (1)

Let’s start today’s roundup with one I do not like: This one from the New York Post that I’d call less of a newspaper front page and more of an editorial. I don’t have a problem with page-one editorials per se — in fact, I’ve been known to praise them from time to time. But an editorial should be labeled [...]

Nov. 6, 2012: A fun walk down political memory lane with the Chicago Tribune (5)

You’re familiar, of course, with the all-time most famous Chicago Tribune election front page: For what it’s worth, that headline ran in only two — out of 11 — editions that night. But it was enough to make it into the famous picture of President Harry Truman holding the page aloft with glee. The Tribune reports: Besides the gross blunder [...]

Oct. 2, 2012: An amazing photo and other notable Tuesday A1 presentations

Let’s take a quick look at a few notable front-page presentations… ___________________________________ THERE’S NO WAY THAT’S NOT PHOTOSHOPPED — CHICAGO TRIBUNE Chicago, Ill. Circulation: 414,590 That’s what I thought the first time I laid eyes on this amazing image by Chris Walker of the Chicago Tribune. But, sure enough, that is not a computer rendering. That is Sunday’s “harvest moon” [...]

Sept. 18, 2012: On patrol today for sharkhoppers (1)

Now that South Korean rapper Psy has appeared on Saturday Night Live singing his annoyingly catchy song Gangnam Style, has that song jumped the shark? Not quite yet, perhaps. But it has jumped a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. That’s a screen cap from the latest Gangnam Style lipsynch video, filmed by cadets at Annapolis. The picture [...]

Aug. 13, 2012: A happy portrait subject

My old pal Rick Tuma of the Chicago Tribune creates watercolor portraits for the Trib‘s Monday biz page. Rick writes today: Some of the Chicago Tribune profile subjects are happier than others. Take today’s, for instance, Amanda Lannert, CEO of Jellyvision. Check out her instagram photo on Twitter: What’s even funnier is that Amanda’s sister, who works at Sirus XM, [...]

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