Archive for September, 2011
Election coverage: It’s all about the plan
Friday, September 30th, 2011
A panel of election coverage heavyweights brought together a wealth of experience on different media platforms, but one thing stands out in the news coverage: STICK TO THE PLAN! Jason Chiu, a design editor at The Globe and Mail in Toronto, has some back-to-basics advice for how to make your election coverage shine. “Build templates.
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The state of SND
Friday, September 30th, 2011
SND Secretary/Treasurer At this time last year, SND was facing a fiscal crisis, and leadership (executive director Stephen Komives and officers Kris Viesselman, Steve Dorsey and Jonathon Berlin) responded by radically revising our budget model. And because they made it better reflect our current reality (especially in terms of the model for the workshop), SND
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Keys to managing in tough times: Direct and inspire
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Poynter faculty member Butch Ward talked about leading during tumultous times at SND St. Louis. The keys, he said: Direct the operation and be the keeper of the promise.
Afternoon jokes from St. Louis
Friday, September 30th, 2011
By Rachel Schallom, University of Missouri And people say journalists aren’t funny… @vmcarnevale (Valerie Carnevale): Things I’ve Learned at #SNDSTL: I want an ipad, newspapers are cool, & that was butter next to the bagels this morning, not cream cheese. @ChrisSpurlock: My only complaint about today’s #sndstl session? It’s absolutely FREEZING in this building. Yikes.
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Where is mobile and tablet going?
Friday, September 30th, 2011
By Wes Meltzer, Orlando Sentinel The mobile and tablet landscape has changed a lot in the last year, since Denver. It changed since last week! At a panel discussion, Steve Yelvington of Morris, Chris Courtney of Tribune and Ray Marcano of Cox took a look at where we are, what’s next, and, as Courtney put
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How optimistic are you? Take our past/present/future survey
Friday, September 30th, 2011
What were you doing five years ago? What are you doing now? What do you think you’ll be doing five years in the future? And how optimistic were you at each of those junctures?
Take our past/present/future survey and tell us. Click here to take the survey.
Meet your 2012 SND Officers
Friday, September 30th, 2011
The election results are in, and we are pleased to announce the officers for 2012:
President: Jonathon Berlin, Chicago Tribune
Vice President: Rob Schneider, Dallas Morning News
Secretary/Treasurer: David Kordalski, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.
Kordalski won the only contested race. Of 220 votes cast in that race, he received 130, for 59% of the vote. Gabi Schmidt received 54 votes (25%) and Mike Rice received 36 votes (16%).
ESPN’s Rob King: It’s not your career, it’s your journey
Friday, September 30th, 2011
“It’s going to work out. You just don’t know how yet.” That was some advice that Rob King got from his boss a few years ago at a difficult time in his life. He and his wife were trying to start a family. And it’s advice that he also passed along in an inspirational keynote
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Plan, reuse, and ‘just say no’: doing more with less
Friday, September 30th, 2011
By Wes Meltzer, Orlando Sentinel When you have to do more with less — and it happens to all of us — it’s easy to fall into the trap of killing ourselves, or doing subpar work. Laura Stanton, of The Washington Post, offers another way. “It all comes down to you and your great ideas,”
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A little levity to start off the day
Friday, September 30th, 2011
By Rachel Schallom, University of Missouri The best designers across the country aren’t the only ones using the #SNDSTL hashtag. Here’s a tweet for a morning smile. @GailPennington: I don’t know what #SNDSTL is, but it sounds like fun. Welcome to town, whoever you are.
Tonia Cowan’s Sketchbook: Mobile infographics
Friday, September 30th, 2011
As the mobile discussion gains steam here in St. Louis, it is time we consider how infographics and mobile intertwine. If this doesn’t work for you, try this or this.
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Iron Will: A great start in St. Louis
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Observations from the first day in St. Louis: A great start
“One (+) year out: What We’ve Learned So Far About Mobile and Tablet News”
Friday, September 30th, 2011
As part of SND STL’s Special Mobile & Tablet track What’s HOT, who’s HOT on your list? in partnership with the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Digital Publishing Alliance we are pleased to bring you live streaming coverage of one of today’s hottest sessions. To replay the session, Click Here Steve Dorsey, SND 2011 President and vice president for R&D at the
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Bid on world-class illustrations to support SNDF
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Bid on the chance to get freelance services from 27 artists in the SND Foundation online auction. You could get the opportunity to work with world-class artists for a much lower price than they would normally charge.
Cristóbal Edwards named SND international director
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Cristóbal Edwards has been named SND’s international director. “Chris is uniquely positioned because of his diverse media experience coupled with his extensive travel and connections with visual journalists all over the globe,” said Steve Dorsey, SND president.
Edwards, 42, has flown just about one million air miles to 48 countries, 30 US states and two Canadian provinces since he first traveled abroad, when he was 3 months old… but this year’s SND workshop will be his first time in Missouri.
(Full details, in English and en Español)
SND fall board meeting: Aiming high above St. Louis
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Society for News Design board members gathered for our twice-a-year board meeting Wednesday, Sept. 28 on the 21st floor of the workshop hotel — The Renaissance Grand. The board is made up of volunteers from across the globe representing different geographic regions and topic areas. At the meeting were members from Dubai, Germany, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.
