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Charles Apple: The Visual Side of Journalism

 

‘Particular newspapers’ archive

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April 26: Victoria, Texas, Advocate takes on the long-lost art of movie theater etiquette (1)

Julie Zavala of the Victoria Advocate writes: I’m sending you the Get Out cover and centerpiece that I wrote and illustrated this week. It’s all about movie theater etiquette and some of the worst offenders we’ve dealt with. I, myself, love to go to the movies but all it takes is one of these goofballs to ruin what could have [...]

April 26: The NFL Draft is like dogs playing poker (2)

Check out the amusing illustration Chris Morris created for the front of the NFL Draft special section in today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer. Chris tells us: Something I rarely do anymore is good ol fashioned, wet brush painting. But after two straight months of vector (for the Rock Hall of Fame project) this was a nice change. I watercolored the Dogs [...]

April 26: Boston Globe’s David Schutz named design director in Fort Lauderdale

David Schutz — deputy design director for graphics and news at the Boston Globe — wrote overnight to tell us he’s… …leaving to become design director of the Sun-Sentinel in South Florida. Below is the note that Dan Zedek sent out to the Globe staff to make it official. I’ll start in Ft. Lauderdale at the end of May. After [...]

April 25: An unusual recession-themed front page photo

Now, here’s something you don’t see every day on page one. Click for a larger view. The picture is by staffer Courtney Sacco. And you’ll note, of course, the little bit of Photoshop editing going on here. Average daily distribution for the free Metro Boston tabloid is about 163,000. The front page image is from the Newseum. Of course.

April 24: Orlando Sentinel’s Karen Bellville Beaman leaving the newspaper business

Print and online designer Karen Bellville Beaman is leaving the Orlando Sentinel for the world of academia. Todd Stewart — the Sentinel‘s head of interactive content — announced today: I’m sorry to announce that graphic artist Karen Bellville Beaman is leaving the Sentinel to become an Associate Course Director for Design & Computer Graphics at Full Sail University. Her last [...]

April 23: A ceremonial throwing of the shoes in Iowa

Did you know that when a wrestler retires, he ceremoniously tosses his shoes into the audience? Me, neither. But then again, I grew up in the South, where high school and collegiate wrestling isn’t really all that popular. Jeremy Gustafson — sports team leader for the Gannett Design Studio in Des Moines, Iowa — tells us: Sunday was the final [...]

April 22: How the Chicago Tribune played Saturday’s White Sox perfect game

Gary Metzker — former senior editor at the Los Angeles Times and currently a journalism professor at California State University at Long Beach and at Chapman University — saw my earlier piece today about the Seattle Times‘ headline on the perfect baseball game story and asked: What did the Chicago papers do with this story? I had to admit, I [...]

April 22: Seeing this unfortunate juxtaposition is indeed believing (3)

An anonymous blog reader writes: The Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn decided to advertise Catholic schools with a special Sunday supplement in the New York Daily News. To promote it, on Friday they had stickers placed on the front page of the paper. This is what the sticker ad looked like. One little problem, of course. Did you see Friday’s Daily [...]

April 21: Today’s burning question: How do they cut a pattern in the grass at baseball stadium?

OK, maybe the question isn’t quite so burning. But still, it’s at least an interesting question. And just in case you would like to know, the Washington Post today obliged us with that photo — by freelancer Matt McClain — and this nice graphic by Bonnie Berkowitz and Todd Lindeman. Click for a larger, readable look. Not very complex at [...]

April 21: Now, THIS is how you humiliate another city’s sports fans (2)

“Dear staff of the Philadelphia Daily News, “We here at the New York Post read with great interest the way you taunted the hockey fans in Pittsburgh with your ‘Cowardly Penguin’ front page the other day. And the way the Chicago Tribune had taunted your own hockey fans with a ‘Chrissy Pronger’ poster two years before.   “Amusing stuff. But [...]

April 19: This fun ASF on allergies is nothing to sneeze at

For many of us here in the U.S., allergy season is well underway. And there’s no better way to tell readers what’s making them sneeze — and how — than an Alternative Story Form. If that ASF can run on page one — which was the case today with the 28,900-circulation Advocate of Victoria, Texas — then it’s even more [...]

April 19: ‘Quite possibly the dumbest series logo I’ve seen in a newspaper’ (1)

That’s what someone I follow on Twitter called this logo used by the New York Daily News to denote ongoing coverage of the Secret Service vs. Prostitutes story. My tipster tells me: It was in today’s NY Daily News. Not sure if it’s a recurring logo or if it was brought out today. Here’s my question: It probably took you [...]

April 18: The only space shuttle Discovery page I’m going to show you today (5)

Many, many newspapers today built nice pages with photos of the shuttle Discovery, orbiting downtown Washington, D.C., on the back of a NASA 747 en route to its new home at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles airport. I was tempted to do a roundup of the best. But after I saw the front [...]

April 18: Today’s big story: The L.A. Times’ front-page photo of soldiers and dead insurgents

The big story this morning: The Los Angeles Times ran a photo of U.S. troops posing with dead Afghan insurgent suicide bombers. On the front page. As you might imagine, this has caused quite a ruckus today. The Times‘ David Zucchino reports: The 82nd Airborne Division [from Fort Bragg, N.C.]  soldiers arrived at the police station in Afghanistan’s Zabol province [...]

April 17: How Pulitzer-winning newspapers played their prizes on page one (2)

— UPDATE – 2:10 p.m. Links to winning entries added. — Granted, it’s a big deal when a news organization wins a Pulitzer Prize. It shows the commitment your newspaper has made to excellence — especially important when nearly everyone is cutting back on reporters, copy editors, photographers and designers. So you really can’t blame a paper for pushing its [...]

April 16: Virginia Tech student paper looks back on the shootings, five years ago today

Today is the fifth anniversary of the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech that left 32 dead. The student paper at Virginia Tech — the Collegiate Times — marked the event today with a special edition. Here’s the cover: The front page story is by editor-in-chief Zach Crizer. Read it here. Pages two and three continue the story off the front [...]

April 15: Fun front-page illustration depicts Facebook’s software engineers

Today, the San Jose Mercury News ran an interesting story on the learning curve — “Boot Camp,” they call it — through which Facebook puts all its newly-hired programmers. The Merc‘s Mike Swift writes: Bootcamp is one part employee orientation, one part software training program and one part fraternity/sorority rush. When new engineering recruits are hired at Facebook, they typically [...]

April 15: They might not have been ‘innovative.’ But today’s Titanic front pages were, in fact, effective. (3)

I was loathe to write about today’s Titanic front pages. Before I even thought out getting out of bed this morning, the Poynter Institute’s Julie Moos posted a large number of front pages from the Newseum. I changed my mind, though, when I saw this tweet from Ian Hill, currently of KQED News in San Francisco and formerly of the [...]

April 15: An extraordinary diagram to help explain an extraordinary event (1)

Today’s Virginian-Pilot contains an amazing, full-page diagram of the apartment complex here in Virginia Beach into which a Navy F/A-18D Hornet fighter jet crashed nine days ago. Eighty-five residents lived in the complex. Killed: Zero. Seriously injured: Zero. The diagram shows in detail how the plane hit the complex and then walks you through the complex, building-by-building and unit-by-unit. Click [...]

April 13: A stunning look at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by the Cleveland Plain Dealer (1)

Back on Tuesday, we looked at a series of full-page poster pages illustrated by Ted Crow and published this week by the Plain Dealer of Cleveland.         The pages commemorate acts that will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this Saturday: The Class of 2012. If you liked that, hold tight. You’re gonna [...]

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