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Feb. 21: Excélsior’s Alexandro Medrano promoted to corporate-level position

Alexandro Medrano of Excélsior — one of the five publications recently named World’s Best Designed by the Society for News Design — has been promoted by Excélsior‘s corporate parent, Grupo Imagen. My tipster tells me that last week — the day before SND’s Best Designed was announced, in fact — Alexandro was appointed… …the new Director for Innovation and Development for [...]

Feb. 16: Q: Is this use of text on page one inspired? Or just lazy? (2)

Via Twitter, David Redwood — reporter, editor and the man behind the North and Agricola hyper-local blog in Halifax, Nova Scotia — poses a question: Good question, David! This comes up a lot when papers run all-text centerpieces. Here’s today’s front page, as seen at the Newseum. I don’t know if I’d call the page inspired. I’m not fond of [...]

Feb. 15: A sneak peek at a redesign of a Nigerian newspaper

My old pal Robb Montgomery has been in Abuja, Nigeria, lately, working on a redesign for Leadership, a seven-year-old daily newspaper printed in both Abuja and Lagos. In this video, Robb talks to design director John Friday, overseeing production of the launch edition. The best part is when they look at the food page. “Beer and potatoes,” Robb notes. Heh. [...]

Feb. 14: This sports injuries illustration in today’s Globe and Mail is a scream

And I mean that literally. Especially if you don’t like the sight of blood. Because Murat Yukselir of the Toronto Globe and Mail chose to illustate eight stories of outlandish sports injuries in the most outlandish way possible today: By using a lot of blood and carnage — in a cartoonish, “Itchy and Scratchy” way, if you’re familiar with the [...]

Feb. 9: What it’s like to sit in on a news meeting held in Afrikaans

From time to time, folks ask me what it was like working for months at a time in South African newspapers. It was a lot like working in U.S. newspapers, really. Except much of the time, everyone spoke Afrikaans. So attending planning meetings can be like going to a meeting in the U.S. in which they’re discussing, say, programming. Or [...]

Feb. 8: SND judges honor first Best of Show winner in ten years (1)

The last time the Society for News Design’s annual competition resulted in a Best of Show winner was 2002: The New York Times won the honor for its coverage of the events and aftermath of 9/11. Meet this year’s Best of Show: Svenska Dagbladet — Stockholm, Sweeden’s third-largest daily. The story that produced this amazing edition was that tragic, two-pronged [...]

Feb. 7: An accusation of visual plagiarism from last year’s SND contest (1)

The graphic in the center of this double-page spread from La Stampa of Torino, Italy — reviewing how trapped miners in Chile were rescued in October of 2010 — won an Award of Excellence last year for breaking news graphics in the annual Society for News Design competition. You’ll find it at the bottom of page 205 of SND32, the [...]

Feb. 2: How newspapers played the Facebook IPO on page one today (2)

Just a few papers had fun today with the announcement that Facebook is about ready for an Initial Public Offering — or IPO — of stock. This is expected to raise $5 billion or more for the company. — DAILY NEWS Palo Alto, Calif. Circulation: 18,500 The paper in Palo Alto led today with a picture of tourists standing beside [...]

Jan. 26: For your consideration… (2)

I like it. I’m just not quite sure I get the cover of Thursday’s Libération of Paris, France. Click for a larger look: The headline for the main story — superimposted on that blimp-looking airplane in the foreground — says: The U.S. president launches campaign Obama 2 I can’t get a decent translation out of Google for the bit across [...]

Jan. 24: It’s not an error, but it sure looks like one

Malcolm McDowell Woods of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee spotted this beauty today at the web site of the Guardian newspaper of London. Note the text in the little grey box beneath the picture: Josiah “Jeb” Barlett was never president of the United States, of course. He was a fictional president on the old West Wing TV show, played by Martin [...]

Jan. 21: A field guide to Canadians in winter (1)

In her sketch blog today, Tonia Cowan of the Toronto Globe and Mail presents a field guide on how to identify Canadians during winter. Click for a larger view: Cute. Tonia has a lot of fun in her sketch blog. Some of her entries are gags like you might see in a high-class magazine. Others are simply doodles she makes [...]

Jan. 19: Yet more recent — and amusing — juxtapositions

My recent posts on news and advertising juxtapositions have resulted in a whole new round of submissions by the best blog readers in the world: You guys. First up is this one in Dagens Nyheter of Stockholm, Sweden, that country’s largest morning newspaper. On the left is the ongoing story about the cruise liner accident in Italy. On the right: [...]

Jan. 17: Yet another amusing cruise ship juxtaposition (4)

Ingrid Muller — formerly of the Hartford Courant and the Denver Post and now a freelance designer and marking consultant in Denver — posts on Facebook today: News design lesson no. 1,327: Every once in a while, it’s good to step back from your page and see how everything works together. Sure, that is a dream holiday. If you’re Aquaman. [...]

Jan. 16: Let’s buy the Queen a boat… BUT NOT THAT ONE (1)

There’s a very odd — but amusing — juxtaposition today on the front of the U.K.’s Guardian. Today’s lead headline was about a government minister who suggests the country buy the Queen a new royal yacht for her golden jubilee anniversary. However, today’s lead art is about the cruise ship that sank this weekend off the coast of Italy. Sure, [...]

Jan. 11: Exiled Zimbabwean newspaper to launch redesign Thursday (4)

The Zimbabwean — a twice-weekly banned by the Zimbabwe government but published and distributed by expatriates in the U.K. and elsewhere — launches a redesign tomorrow. On the left is the most recent issue from Dec. 15. On the right is a prototype of the new look.   Here’s a closer look at that prototype page: UPDATE: That’s not a prototype. [...]

Jan. 11: China Daily’s Bridget O’Donnell moves to the Shanghai Daily

Bridget O’Donnell — a designer at the Beijing-based China Daily for the past two years — has changed jobs. She announced in her blog Tuesday: …Starting today, I will be working for Shanghai Daily as an A1 and general news designer. Shanghai Daily, an English-language newspaper covering China’s largest city, recently underwent a redesign last month. On the left is [...]

Dec. 29, 2011: North Korean news operation engages in second Photoshopping incident of the year (1)

A handout photo by the (North) Korean Central News Agency of yesterday’s funeral procession for Kim Jong-il — and subsequently distributed by Reuters, Agence-France Presse and the European Pressphoto Agency — has been proven to be manipulated. Here is the handout photo: However, a picture from Kyodo News agency of Japan — shot at nearly the same moment and angle [...]

Dec. 22, 2011: Cool idea: Sunday Times publishing iPad-only edition on Christmas Day

In 1912, writes Arif Durrani of UK Media Week, the Sunday Times of London started a tradition of not publishing on Christmas Day. The idea, of course: To give employees the day off. (A secondary benefit, perhaps: We’ve found, over the years, that single-copy sales pretty much suck on holidays. But let’s not go there right now.) The Times of [...]

Dec. 19, 2011: Fair and balanced, Beijing-style

The front of Tuesday’s China Daily of Beijing. Kim Jong Il was a bit of a joke here in the U.S., so it’s difficult to comprehend how beloved he was in North Korea. Or how well-respected he was in countries friendly to North Korea. Find the China Daily‘s online story here. For your enjoyment this evening… Ten weird but true [...]

Dec. 16, 2011: Javier Errea on working with limited space

Javier Errea — professor at the University of Navarra, president of the Spanish Chapter of the Society for News Design, coordinator of the Malofiej infographics competition, and on of the designers of Portugal’s i newspaper spoke with Sajeev Kumar T.K., SND’s Region 19 director and creator of the NewspaperDesign web site. Q. How can a visual journalist excel in the [...]

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