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May 10: Riddle me this: When is a bird not ‘the bird’?

It happened at Wednesday night’s NBA playoff game between the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat. With the Heat up by 41 points — 41 points! — the Bulls’ Joakim Noah fouled out. As he exited the court, he was booed by Heat fans, including this one woman who felt compelled to extend a middle finger nearly in front of [...]

April 20: A look inside Saturday’s Boston Globe (3)

What a fabulous job the Boston Globe did this week. Just wonderful work. Here is today’s front page, illustrated with area residents celebrating the Friday night capture of the bomber on the run. The photo is by staffer Bill Greene. Today’s front was designed by assistant managing editor Dan Zedek. That tag-team profile of the two brothers who went from [...]

March 23: Birthday for Saturday, March 23

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to Steve Warns, a copy editor for the Express-News of San Antonio, Texas. A 1997 graduate of the University of Toledo, Steve served as assistant sports editor and then sports editor of the student newspaper there, the Collegian. Upon graduation, he spent a year as a news assistant for the Toledo Blade before moving [...]

March 19: Psst… Hey, buddy… Wrong Pope.

Two Argentinian newspapers. Owned by the same company. Both with the same cover story Monday and both with similar cover pictures.   Just one little problem… While Clarín correctly ran a photo of the newly-appointed Pope Francis… …la Razon — somehow — used a picture of the previous Pope. The one who stepped down: Pope Benedict. Note the difference in [...]

March 18: Birthdays for Monday, March 18

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to three talented visual journalists… Ken Marshall is assistant graphics editor for print for the Plain Dealer of Cleveland, Ohio. A 1969 graduate of Ohio State University, Ken spent 12 years as a news artist for the Columbus Dispatch, a year as assistant graphics editor of the Dallas Morning News and then eight years [...]

March 16: Fort Worth Star-Telegram artist Steve Wilson becomes a food blogger (1)

My old pal Steve Wilson — senior artist at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram — has also been blogging lately for his newspaper. About cooking. He tells us his Weekend Chef blog… …is just something that I came up with that I was doing in my spare time the past year and a half that has taken on a life of [...]

March 14: Awesome sports photography at an awesome small paper

From time to time, Michael Beniash — the photographer-slash-sports editor of the Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, Vt. — sends me a page that just blows my mind. He did it again last night. Check out the heartbreaking — but outstanding — picture he shot for his Wednesday sports front. Michael tells us: I wanted to shared today’s sports pages featuring [...]

Feb. 27: The coolest thing I’ve seen lately: The future of residential skyscrapers

While I’m on my cross-country trek this week, a number of visual journalists around the country are lending a hand by telling us what is the coolest thing they’ve seen lately. Today, Alan Stamm — a former assistant metro editor of the Detroit News who now writes for Deadline Detroit, does communications consulting and writes a journalism and public relations [...]

Nov. 21, 2012: A couple of misspellings to kick off our Thanksgiving holiday

As we head out over the river and through the woods, here are a couple of fun — but needless — errors to put a smile on your face. June Stricker — a copy editor laid off recently by the Springfield, Ill., Journal-Register — writes: When I’m checking out the news of the day, I head to the websites of [...]

Nov. 21, 2012: Birthdays for Wednesday, Nov. 21

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to three wonderful visual journalists… Peter Conradi is a journalism instructor at Niagara College in Welland, Ontario, and creator of Bullet News Niagara. A 1981 graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Peter spent 25 years at the Standard of St. Catharines, Ontario. In 2006, he became managing editor of the Niagara Falls Review, where [...]

Nov. 12, 2012: Inside the Indy Star’s coverage of a horrific neighborhood explosion

There was a tremendous explosion Saturday night in the southeast suburbs of Indianapolis. Authorities suspect it was caused by some sort of gas leak. But it’ll be a while before they know for certain. You can see the vital numbers here across the top of page one of today’s Indianapolis Star, designed by Emily Kuzniar. Click that — or any [...]

Nov. 11, 2012: Jay St. Pierre’s take on the Nebraska vs. Penn State game

I didn’t get this until too late to post last night. But we can enjoy it this morning. Jay St. Pierre of the Omaha World-Herald sent along his latest sports front — a pregame for yesterday’s Nebraska vs. Penn State game — writing: We wanted to do something pretty clean and simple for [Saturday's] game and printed a second cover [...]

Oct. 31, 2012: Birthdays for Wednesday, Oct. 31

Here’s wishing the happiest of birthdays to six wonderful visual journalists… Jonathon Berlin is design and graphics editor for the Chicago Tribune. A 1998 graduate of the University of Illinois, Jonathon began his career at the Times of Munster, Indiana. He became assistant design director of the Rocky Mountain News of Denver in 2001 and then joined the San Jose [...]

Oct. 22, 2012: How they celebrated homecoming at Princeton this year (2)

Princeton hasn’t been a football power for decades. Homecoming there simply isn’t what it use to be, back in the days before hard helmets and facemasks. Yet, Princeton’s Homecoming foe this past Saturday was Harvard — undefeated in its last 14 games and without a loss to Princeton since this year’s senior class was in the ninth grade. So, what [...]

Aug. 28, 2012: Jon Wile leaving the WaPo for American City Business Journals (3)

Jon Wile — senior news designer for the Washington Post — has been named creative director for American City Business Journals. Jon tweeted Tuesday morning: Lots of new challenges ahead. I’m ready to stretch some new muscles. Jon will based at ACBJ’s corporate headquarters in Charlotte. He tells us: I will help oversee the design of the Business Journal of [...]

June 13, 2012: A quick look at a few NBA Finals pages

Oklahoma City came from behind to knock off the Miami Heat 105-94 Tuesday night, winning Game One of the NBA Finals. Let’s take a belated look at a few front pages… — OKLAHOMAN Oklahoma City, Okla. Circulation: 132,294 Sports designer Bill Bootz sends us the front of the Oklahoman’s 8-page section that wrapped around today’s paper. The photo is by [...]

June 12, 2012: NYT found an interesting way to cover a huge, huge local sports weekend

Wayne Kamidoi of the New York Times tells us: We had one of those sports election nights on Saturday — a convergence of major events from morning to night, here and abroad. Our sports editor was envisioning a themed Sunday section to reflect the “day like few others.” This project kicked off last Tuesday — a week ago today — [...]

May 16, 2012: This just in…

Stop the presses, everybody. Brad Richards of the New York Rangers had two — count ‘em, two — bowel movements during Monday night’s 3-0 playoff win over the New Jersey Devils.. That’s according to this onscreen graphic by the NHL Network. I suspect they meant shots. But I wouldn’t bet money on it. These guys need to find themselves a [...]

May 9, 2012: Washington Post graphics director Hannah Fairfield returning to the NYT

Poynter’s Andrew Beaujon reported earlier today that Washington Post graphics director Hannah Fairfield is returning to the New York Times as a senior graphics editor. Hannah was a double-major — English and Geosciences — from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. She went on to earn two master’s degrees from Columbia University, in Journalism and Earth and Environmental [...]

May 1, 2012: Help a colleague land a year-long blogging gig (1)

Darlene Horn — wife of web cartoonist and former San Diego Union-Tribune artist Paul Horn — is after a new job. It’s “only” a one-year gig. But hey, it’s a gig. And you can help her out. Darlene — who’s written about food for years, now — is aiming to be the food blogger for the tourism folks of Richmond, [...]

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