Archived Posts by Biz Carson

10 things to do to make newspapers great all the time

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Everyone wants to have a really, really ridiculously good-looking newspaper every day. To get there, magazine design guru Robert Newman recommends to throw away the Wired and ESPN magazines on your desks, replace them with Real Simple, New York Magazine and the New York Post and design your paper like a newsmagazine. Newspapers can start

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Designing print and online simultaneously… or basically trying to stay sane.

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Newsrooms across the country are facing the same problem: smaller design staffs, more design work to do. However, The Tennessean’s Jeff Glick explained how his newsroom makes it work (and stays sane). “It’s doable. It’s not easy, and you really have to figure out what works for your paper,” he said. The key is management.

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