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‘San Diego Union-Tribune’ archive

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Jan. 27: Would you like to ride in my beautiful… blimp?

Yes — Yes, I would. Especially if the view is like this. Click for a much larger look: That is downtown San Diego on the left and Coronado on the right, separated by San Diego Bay. Way in the distance at the upper right is the Pacific Ocean. We’re looking south, so if we could peer through the haze, we [...]

Jan. 3: San Diego Union-Tribune makes changes to its nameplate, branding strategy (2)

The Union-Tribune of San Diego — under new ownership since mid-November — made a change to its branding strategy this morning. A note to readers today explains: We will now use one company name and logo on all of our media products and communications: U-T San Diego. This change marks a new era in our company’s history. It will help [...]

Jan. 2: Infographics day for two Southern California newspapers (1)

Two of Southern California’s largest newspapers featured infographics on page one today. Neither was particularly complex or even spectacular, perhaps, in scope or rendering style. But both were extremely effective in telling their respective stories. Which, of course, justifies their front-page play. — LOS ANGELES TIMES Los Angeles, Calif. Circulation: 572,998 The big story in L.A. this holiday season was [...]

Dec. 31, 2011: Today’s top ten ‘top ten news stories of 2011′ pages of 2011

Is it just me, or has news ever been as slow as it’s been this week? Unless you’re in Iowa, covering the last week of caucus campaigning. Or the New York Post, I mean. Many papers chose to fill the time — and their space — with the traditional look back on the biggest stories of the year. These stories [...]

Dec. 7, 2011: Today’s ten most interesting Pearl Harbor anniversary front pages

Many, many papers observed the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on their front pages today. Here’s a look at ten of the best. — VICTORIA ADVOCATE Victoria, Texas Circulation: 28,900 One of my favorite small-town papers — the Victoria Advocate — cleared everything off A1 today and ran a poster-like photoillustration of a local man who was [...]

Nov. 11, 2011: How you outfit an aircraft carrier for a basketball game

So, how do you hold a huge college basketball game on the deck of an aircraft carrier? Well, you warn the players not to dive for a loose ball, I’d imagine. Seriously, though, the No. 1-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels will take on Michigan State this evening in San Diego, upon the deck of the USS Carl Vinson. Tipoff is [...]

Sept. 21, 2011: San Diego’s Yuri Victor to join Washington Post (2)

Yuri Victor — digital content and design manager for the San Diego Union Tribune — announced this morning via Facebook: Excited to announce I’m heading back to DC to work at The Washington Post. Yuri tells us: I’ll be designing news applications for washingtonpost.com. The position is a chance to move back into the newsroom in full and focus on [...]

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. 9, 2011: Lights out last night in San Diego (2)

While the Northeast struggled with flooding and renewed terror threats and the Midwest and the Gulf Coast were entertained by a close football game, 5 million people on the West Coast found themselves with no electricity. Apparently, the San Diego area has two main sources for power: A large trunk like from the east. And a good-sized nuclear plant to [...]

Aug. 5, 2011: How newspapers played the stock market free-fall on page one

The story of the day, of course, was that disastrous day for Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points Thursday. It has lost more than 10 percent of its total value over the past 10 days. Thursday was the single worst day for the stock market since… well, since 2008. Which doesn’t sound all that [...]

July 24, 2011: (Probably) the last space shuttle pages you’ll ever see

You’d think that we’ve seen just about all that can be seen regarding the late, great U.S. Space Shuttle program. But then you’d be wrong. There is still a universe full of wonderful shuttle visual journalism that was published over the past few days. Here’s a look at it… ————————————————————— TWO MORE COOL SHUTTLE INFOGRAPHICS… We’ve seen a number of [...]

July 21, 2011: A look at the San Diego Union-Tribune’s comic-con coverage (1)

Today, the annual comic-con convention opens in San Diego. As you’d imagine, the Union-Tribune is all over it today. The top of page one has been converted to a comic book motif. And a mainbar plus a column about the SDCC appear downpage. Managing editor/creative director Kris Viesselman cited these credits on her Facebook page today: Design Director: Peter Nguyen [...]

July 20, 2011: Going to the San Diego Comic-Con? Keep an eye out for Paul Horn

Former San Diego Union-Tribune news artist and illustrator Paul Horn is preparing for yet another crazy week at the San Diego Comic-Con. A 1991 graduate of the University of Nevada-Reno, Paul spent a year as an illustrator for the Daily Sparks Tribune of Sparks, Nev., before becoming assistant graphics editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal in 1990. He moved to the [...]

July 4, 2011: I didn’t realize sharks got this big (1)

But apparently they do. At least according to this graphic in today’s Union-Tribune of San Diego. Click for a larger look. If you dare. That’s a hell of a lot larger than the Jaws-type Great White Shark. Which is the one in the lower right. The graphic is simple and effective. Any more detail would have ruined it. You’re looking [...]

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 [...]

March 12, 2011: Eighteen front pages that told the earthquake story particularly well, visually (2)

I really should be in bed by now — it’s already after midnight — but I have a lot of pages I want to point out to you. There was a lot of good work done out there today on page one. Probably because so many of you lived by the golden rule of news page design: If you have [...]

Feb. 11, 2011: San Diego Union-Tribune celebrates 100 years of Naval aviation (5)

I live in a section of Virginia Beach that is smack dab beneath the flight path of all of the East Coast-based Navy carrier based airplanes. Despite all the racket, these aircraft raise — and all hours of the day and night — I’m a fan of Naval aviation. I love the planes. I love the carriers. I love movies [...]

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 [...]

Oct. 13, 2010: How papers covered the Chilean mine story (3)

The miner rescue story posed particular problems last night for the print media. For starters, the first miner was brought up very close to deadline — at least in the Eastern U.S. Plus, the story is an ongoing one: The last miner won’t be rescued until dawn Thursday, if all stays on schedule. So how does one play a story [...]

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