Both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times published Extra editions on Tuesday after Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested in the early morning hours by FBI agents for what’s being called a “staggering” level of corruption involving pay-to-play politics. The Tribune has been tracking the story for days, even weeks and months if you […]
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An emerging design scene in lovely, youthful Russia
Last week I attended the Fifth Annual Russian News Design Workshop in Moscow. Three hours after arriving I gave opening remarks for the results of the Russian Creative Competition Newspaper Design: Excitement and adrenalin did kick in and it was thrilling to be there.
Do you remember? Please help us as we review 2008
There’s still a month left in 2008, but we’re already starting to wonder what we’ll collectively remember as the biggest moments in news design this year. We have our own ideas, of course. And, as we did last year, we will write about those in a post closer to the end of December. But what […]
SND joins effort to save NewsPageDesigner.com
The good folks at The Sun Journal, after six years of amazing help, have been forced to pull support for NewsPageDesigner.com because of their own financial issues.
The beginning, not the end, in Los Angeles
Michael Whitley, assistant managing editor for design and graphics, answers a few questions about the latest design evolutions at the Los Angeles Times — which were introduced today. In recent years, the Times has been a top winner at SND’s Annual Best of Newspaper Design Competition (see coverage from 2007 and 2008). Tribune’s innovation officer, […]
Tribune debuts redesign
The Chicago Tribune joined its Tribune sister papers in the “Summer of Redesigns” this morning with a striking new look. Tribune graphics editor Steve Cavendish gives us an inside look into the project and also shares a slide show of the first day’s edition. Chicago Tribune launches redesign from Steve Dorsey on Vimeo. The Trib […]
“War has been declared”
Written by Matt Erickson Four words seemed to sum up how Lee Abrams feels about the state of the newspaper industry: “Let’s fix this thing.” With that, Tribune Co.’s first chief innovation officer set the tone for an hour of “aggressive action to reclaim our turf.” Abrams spoke with the president and executive editor of […]
Covering the earthquake
This design portfolio showcases pages following China’s Sichuan earthquake in May, 2008. Lily Lu, regional director of SND Chinese, collects 40 pages from 40 newspapers to illustrate the courageous design from the country’s visual journalists during a devastating moment. Looking at these pages, one can easily across the language barrier to feel the sadness which […]
Sporting News Today
Designers have been fighting about this for years — does the print design reading experience translate to the web at all? The Sporting News thinks so enough to hire a staff of visual journalists from newspapers (Virginian-Pilot, Charlotte Observer) to put out a new, daily PDF sports section called Sporting News Today, available on their […]
SND board will meet in Las Vegas this weekend
The Society’s board will gather for its spring meeting this weekend in Las Vegas, the site of this year’s annual workshop. On the agenda are several important issues, including an expansion into China, a possible move of the SND headquarters, a first look at the program for SND Vegas, an assessment of how the sweeping […]
Garcia launches Xpress, first free paper in Thailand
You never know where in the world Mario Garcia will be any given day. The global design guru just finished celebrating the launch of Daily Xpress, Thailand’s first free newspaper. And he did it in style, with a cool launch party at Centara, Central World, with more than 2,000 guests. The paper launched Wednesday with […]
Matt Mansfield leaving Merc leadership post
The Society’s Vice President, Matt Mansfield, is leaving his longtime leadership role at the San Jose Mercury News, where he is a deputy managing editor and business development director. Mansfield steps down as part of the paper’s latest voluntary staff reductions. The buyout announcements go out this week. Mansfield joined the Mercury News as news […]