Archive for the ‘Industry News’ Category
Univ of Missouri’s RJI conducts national iPad news survey
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Our friends at the University of Missouri asked that we alert you to this on-going survey: The Reynolds Journalism Institute is conducting a national survey of Apple iPad users to help journalists, journalism educators and other media practitioners better understand how widespread adoption of the iPad and similar mobile devices may influence the future of
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A Q&A with Gannett’s Kate Marymont
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Gannett’s vice president/news discusses the company’s vision as it transitions to 5 centralized design locations for its community newspapers. “Good visual journalism isn’t an afterthought,” Marymont says. “Editors will have to ensure that the planning of coverage includes the planning of the art elements and presentation. That will remain a local responsibility.”
Roger Black on Ready-Media, templates and the future of design
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
When Roger Black and Eduardo Danilo launched Ready-Media this week—the template service for newspapers, magazines and, eventually, the Web—the announcement sent distress signals through the design community. SND talks with Black about what he had in mind when creating Ready-Media.
An open letter on the value of Design
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Updated: Gannett responds to SND’s President. Like many of our colleagues, we read with concern this week’s announcement of Gannett’s plans for regional hubs to build pages for many of their newspapers. This plan is similar to others that have sought to template publications and centralize parts of the creative and production process, or, in some extreme cases, eliminate design and graphics departments.
We all are looking for ways to eliminate inefficiencies to ensure a future for newspapers. However, as leaders of the Society for News Design, we would like to challenge some assumptions at the core of this (and similar) plans, as well as offer some ideas to consider at this critical time — a time when there is a need for relevancy, re-invention and creative solutions. Continue »
Should news and views be separated?
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
A REVIEW OF THE INDEPENDENT’S NEW APPROACH
Dividing a publication into ”news” and ”views” to send a clear signal to the reader is definitely an appealing idea. Unfortunately, the reality of the scheme has proven difficult for The Independent’s and editor-in-chief Simon Kelner.
USA Today iPad app: Behind the scenes
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
It’s not hard to argue that USA Today has had a large part in shaping the design of newspapers since it launched in 1982. (SND named the founding of the paper the number one “Influential Moment in News Design” of the last 25 years in 2004.) So when Apple finally announced it’s iPad earlier this year it’s no surprise that USA Today would be one of the first papers to adopt the platform.
SND spoke with William Couch, Interaction Designer at USA Today for some insight into the development of the application.
Follow the SSND competition
Monday, April 19th, 2010
Follow the University of Missouri College SND competition on their blog. See winners on Flickr; and follow developments on Twitter @SNDmizzou.
The story behind The Denver Post photo Pulitzer
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
In February, Craig F. Walker of the Denver Post earned a gold medal in SND’s Best of News Design competition for his story chronicling the journey of Ian Fisher from high school student to Iraq War veteran. On Monday, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, the most prestigious award in journalism.
iPad Q&A: Popular Science magazine
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Apple’s iPad made its debut over the weekend — and with it came the launch of several new apps from newspapers and magazines hoping to tap into a new set of readers. Popular Science is one of the first magazines to enter the race. The magazine made a bit of a splash when they first
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Inside the design process for NPR’s iPad app
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
The NPR app, which has been in the top free downloads since the iPad came out, and a companion site optimized for the iPad feature clean design and a careful attention to usability details. Hear more about the prototyping process with NPR’s Paulo Lopez and David Wright Jr.
A tribute to John Monahan
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
This week, our industry mourns the passing of John Monahan, former graphics director for the Gannett News Service in the late 1980s, who later became the director of AP graphics in the early 1990s.
Charles Apple’s blog includes memories from John’s friends and former colleagues.
Newspapers for everyone
Friday, January 29th, 2010
As more and more people get their news online, it’s easy to think that the newspaper is about to disappear.
But competition doesn’t automatically create obsolescence. It creates opportunity, and forces enhancement and focus. When you don’t have to do everything, you can concentrate on what you do really well. It is only when a medium’s inherent qualities are superceded in pretty much every way by its successors, that it is in danger. And that has not happened for newspapers.
Don’t worry: Newsprint will survive.
Five questions: Amanda Zamora, multimedia editor
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Amanda Zamora left The Washington Post last year to be part of the start-up team that would launch The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. The independent nonprofit journalism venture, funded by various donors (including, of course, The Huffington Post, but also the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Knight Foundation) and based in Washington, D.C., is part of
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Kalish visual editing workshop accepting 2010 applications
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Scott Sines, managing editor at The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal and Kalish Director reminds us that the 2010 Kalish Workshop “is accepting applications for the 21st edition of the best visual editing workshop on the planet.” The announcement continues: “Learn cross-platform/multimedia skills from a faculty of Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winning visual editors including Brian Storm,
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Designing the next decade: We must rethink old models
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Roger Black talks about the decade in news design and what designers must do to confront the challenges the industry is facing. His message: We must produce stories that people are willing to pay for.
