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Oct. 17, 2011: Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Michael Tribble named AME for digital and online (2)

Michael Tribble — for the past four years, director of design and graphics for the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio — has been promoted to assistant managing editor of that paper’s online operations. A 1997 graduate of East Texas State University in Commerce, Texas, Michael spent nearly five years as a reporter, photographer, editor and designer for the Paris (Texas) [...]

Sept. 25, 2011: From garbage bins to Playboy bunnies: Six notable Sunday front pages

A look at the day’s most notable front pages, as seen today at the Newseum… — THE TRIBUNE San Luis Obispo, Calif. Circulation: 34,718 The big story today in San Luis Obispo: The city council passed a law specifying that garbage and recycling bins must be stored in a place where they’re not visible from the street. Might not sound [...]

Sept. 11, 2011: A look at today’s 9/11 anniversary newspaper visuals (8)

There’s a lot of amazing work out there today. So amazing, in fact, that I was a little swamped trying to process it all. My solution was to try something unusual. I posted the first half of my material so folks could begin digesting it. And then I added as the afternoon faded into evening. Not the way I’d prefer [...]

Sept. 10, 2011: The most notable of Friday’s and Saturday’s 9/11 anniversary pages (1)

Oh, the 9/11 tribute pages have come fast and furious late this week. Dozens upon dozens of them. Many of them looking the same. There’s simply no way to show them all. I hope your feelings don’t get hurt if I leave yours out. Expecting to see a ton of pages tomorrow, I thought we’d look back tonight and pull [...]

Sept. 3, 2011: Football preview section: Lose yourself in a cartoon illustration by Chris Morris (1)

Next up in our line of football special section covers: The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which ran its college preview Friday. Gracing the cover is this wonderful piece by “the new guy,” designer and illustrator Chris Morris. Make sure you click on this one, folks, for extra-big goodness. Oh, there’s just so much to love here, from gentle little sight gags [...]

Aug. 24, 2011: How East Coast papers covered the Great Quake of ’11 (2)

You knew it was coming today: Wall-to-wall coverage of the Great Earthquake of 2011. Of course, folks on the West Coast and in various regions of the world are shaking their heads and wondering about us. No deaths. No suffering. No tsunami. No substantial damage to speak of. So why the fuss? Because we’re not accustomed to earthquakes in this [...]

July 13, 2011: Las Vegas Sun’s Chris Morris moving to Cleveland Plain Dealer

Rachel Perkins — creative director of the Greenspun Media Group — announced tonight: I regret to announce that Chris Morris, GMG’s illustrator extraordinaire, is leaving to become Art Director at the Plain Dealer in Cleveland. He joins a seasoned, SND award-winning visuals team with arguably the best illustrative department in newspapers. His last day is July 31st. …He will be [...]

July 8, 2011: Space shuttle media gaffes… and more wonderful shuttle graphics (3)

We’ve seen the last launch of the U.S. space shuttle program. As you can see from this photo posted today by Tom Burton of the Orlando Sentinel. Read more about the launch in the Sentinel. Despite the iffy weather, the launch went off pretty smoothly except for a one brief, nerve-wracking moment. With just over 30 seconds to go, there [...]

June 9, 2011: Is that really Terrelle Pryor’s autograph?

Yes. Yes, it is. We’re talking about the front of Thursday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer. Terrelle Pryor is one of the football players at the center of the huge memorabilia scandal at Ohio State. Click on this for a much, much larger view. Design and graphics director Michael Tribble tells us: That is indeed Pryor’s autograph. We got it from authenticated [...]

May 31, 2011: Front page coverage of the resignation of a football coach

Football coach Jim Tressel resigned Monday from Ohio State University. He was under tremendous pressure in the wake of a number of deepening scandals there that involved players trading for favors among local merchants — most notably a tattoo parlor. The bigger issue, however, was that Tressel knew about what was going on but took steps to cover it up. [...]

May 29, 2011: Ten wonderful Memorial Day front pages

Lots of papers published wonderful Memorial Day treatments today on page one. Here’s a look at ten of the best. — GAZETTE Colorado Springs, Colo. Circulation: 76,030 The folks in Colorado Springs focused on a Korean War veteran. The man’s face reflected in the frame holding his medals is a bit haunting. That lead photo is by staffer Jerilee Bennett. [...]

May 8, 2011: Notable Sunday bin Laden pages

Today marked six days since the announcement that U.S. forces had killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. And for some U.S. newspapers, it was a time for a little reflection. With emotional visuals and some long-form journalism. The Arizona Republic of Phoenix built a front-page centerpiece out of a nice Washington Post project about how the U.S. tracked [...]

May 3, 2011: A look at Tuesday’s graphics-heavy bin Laden presentations (3)

Anybody ready for another spin into the world of Osama bin Laden aftermath? While yesterday’s fronts were — in some cases — big and bold, they didn’t have a lot of story to tell. That’s partially because of the late hour at which the story broke. Read much more detail about that — and how several papers ripped up their [...]

May 2, 2011: The stories behind today’s Osama bin Laden front pages (3)

What we had today was a story for which we had no real live art of the event itself. If you were designing Monday’s page one, your choices were to build your page around one of these visuals: A file photo of Osama bin Laden. A photo of President Barack Obama standing behind a podium. A photo of crowds outside [...]

May 2, 2011: Sorry, all circuits are busy… (2)

So, after staying up ungodly hours last night — bringing you preliminary and low-resolution newspaper front pages in progress, purloined from every Twitter and Facebook feed I could find — my plan today was to get up early and compile a collection of the best Osama bin Laden fronts from around the U.S. Ah, well. Best-laid plans and all that. [...]

May 2, 2011: Tomorrow’s front pages today (2)

A small selection of front pages from tomorrow’s newspapers, blatantly stolen from Facebook and Twitter feeds… Chicago Sun-Times Circulation 250,747 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Circulation 181,504 Casper, Wyo., Star Tribune Circulation 24,121 Twin Falls, Idaho, Times-News Circulation 23,081 Charlotte, N.C., Observer Circulation 155,995 Fort Myers, Fla., News-Press Circulation 56,834 Albany, N.Y. Times Union Circulation: 68,992 Rochester, N.Y. Democrat and Chronicle Circulation: 119,399 [...]

April 14, 2011: Five clever headlines from Wednesday’s front pages

As I made my daily sweep through the Newseum yesterday, I found a handful of headlines that made me stop and laugh. It cracks me up, for instance, when we can find a way to use an expression like “OMG” on a story that has nothing to do with texting or the deterioration of the English language. That’s the Herald [...]

March 3, 2011: N.C. State student paper pays homage to an administrator… as well as the Cleveland Plain Dealer

The vice-chancellor of student affairs at N.C. State University in Raleigh announced his retirement this week. That’s after four decades of service to the university. The student paper of N.C. State — the Technician — honored the man with this interesting page. Click for a much, much larger look… Does that look familiar? It should. It’s meant as a direct [...]

Nov. 11, 2010: Don’t forget about the free SND quick course in Cleveland (3)

Free, that is, if you’re an SND member. Non-members pay just $75 for a full day’s worth of knowledge poured into them via folks like Zach Wise of the New York Times and Andrea Levy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. View Cleveland Plain Dealer in a larger map The quick course will be held in the community room of the [...]

Nov. 3, 2010: The best and the brightest Election Day front pages (4)

Just when you think you’ve seen U.S. papers fall into a huge, huge rut, something like a midterm election comes along and — boom! — just like that, dynamite pages are produced all over the country. It’s taken me a while to pull this together. But hopefully, I can take you on an interesting tour of the best and brightest [...]

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