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Join us for a Saturday of presentations AND conversations, Dec. 12, 2009 from 9:30 until 1:30 at the Hickory Daily Record, 1100 Park Place, Hickory, N.C. 28603. An optional, informal lunch will follow with plenty of time for more conversation, networking and Q&A.
Learn ?How People Learn In Different [...]
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The Society for News Design has named veteran board member and industry leader Stephen Komives as its executive director.
Komives, Design Editor at the Orlando Sentinel in Orlando, Fla. for the past five years, has also directed the Society?s quick course design workshops since 2007. In his eight years on [...]
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Quick course instructors Tyson Evans and Dave Wright answer five frequently asked questions from print designers looking toward the Web. Sign up for their Web Design Boot Camp in Chicago, November 7-8, to learn more.
1) Do I have to be a geek to [...]
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If you’ve been looking for an opportunity to expand your print design skills to the Web, look no further. SND’s acclaimed, two-day introduction to the essential building blocks is coming to Columbia College in Chicago. In this weekend course we?ll demystify the Web 2.0 toolbox and help you build [...]
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SND and News University, the online training project of The Poynter Institute, are partnering up to offer a series of Webinars in a variety of areas: journalism, design and technical.
These will be offered at a steep discount to SND members.
Now we need you to help us decide what [...]
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SND and Youth Times are presenting an Asian Boot Camp on News Page Design in Hangzhou, China on Nov. 6-9. Steve Dorsey, SND vice president-elect and Detroit Free Press deputy managing editor for presentation and innovation, and Denise M. Reagan, SND education and training director and [...]
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CANCELED: We’re sorry to report that the SND Quick Course scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 10 in East Lansing, Mich., at MSU, has been canceled. Pre-paid registrations will be refunded through the SND main office. [...]
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Posted: October 05, 2009, 6:04pm EDT by Dorsey
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Here are my Vice President remarks from the 2009 annual business luncheon Sept. 26 in Buenos Aires.
Good afternoon and welcome to the 2009 annual business meeting of the Society for News Design. I hope you?ve been enjoying the workshop as much as I have, a workshop that has [...]
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By Alejandro Bruna, Universidad Católica de Chile/SND
The Centro Cultural Borges is now less flooded by foreigners speaking English. Sure, there?s the odd tourist here and there, but nothing compared to the massive flow of ?americanos? who were there from September 24-26. And sure, the 2009 workshop is over and [...]
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By María Luján Pereiro, Universidad de Palermo/SND
Luke Hayman comparte en su charla, los trabajos a lo largo de su experiencia en el diseño editorial. Se pudo apreciar diseños de revistas reconocidas internacionalmente como es el caso de la revista TIME y I.D., como así también puestas en página, rediseños, [...]
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By Andreina Fernandes, Universidad Central de Venezuela/SND
Léo Tavejnhansky durante su charla ?O Globo a todo color? dio a los presentes un paseo por los 14 años del diario desde que se implemento el proyecto gráfico de Milton Glaser. Este proyecto le significó al diario y a su equipo de [...]
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By Andrea Zagata, Michigan State University/SND
There are more than 200 festivals celebrating photography in France, and most were born with the same goal in mind ? to promote photography and photographers, and legitimize their form of art and interpretation.
PhotoEspaña is of of the more important festivals in the world, [...]
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By Andrea Zagata, Michigan State University/SND
Citing super heros that made his mother smile, to monsters that almost made her commit him, Luiz Iria showed that creativity is at the root of all art, even the most realistic.
Now the director of Editora Abril?s infographics department, Iria says the best information [...]
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By Militza Moya, Universidad Diego Portales/SND
Al presentar a Luis Chumpitaz sólo es suficiente decir que cambió la infografía de Dubai. Uno de los grandes méritos de Chumpitaz es realizar sus infografías en árabe e inglés. Este expositor define como necesario aprovechar el crecimiento emergente de Dubai y los recursos [...]
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By Gabriela Lorenz, Universidad Nacional de La Plata/SND
Jaume Serra es autodidacta. Es español y se considera periodista de profesión. Trabajó como ilustrador y luego como infografista en el Periódico de Catalunya. Más tarde trabajó como infografista para Clarín (Argentina) durante varios años. Luego volvió a España para trabajar como [...]
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By Ángeles Briones, Universidad Católica de Chile/SND
La segunda conferencia de Pablo Corral en el congreso de la SND09 estaba en el marco del programa de estudiantes. Sabiendo esto, Corral lo primero que hizo fue preguntar quiénes éramos los que estábamos presentes. El público estaba formado principalmente por estudiantes de [...]
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All day today and tomorrow we’ll be updating with synopses of workshop sessions, with video and photos. Check back for updates on sessions you’re interested in!
Sessions
Student program
11:00 a.m.
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By Andreina Fernandes, Universidad Central de Venezuela/SND
Cualquiera se preguntaría, ¿Qué tiene que ver Hannah Montana, la cantante estadounidense, en una charla sobre la fotografía en la SND? Para Ricardo Mazalán, editor de fotografía en The Associated Press en Bogotá, un fotomontaje de la cantante con una niña argentina sirvió [...]
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Kris Viesselman, Director of Digital Product Development for National Geographic Maps, has won the 2010 SND presidency, it was announced by Immediate Past President Gayle Grin in Buenos Aires today.
Grin said, in her remarks announcing the results, “All our candidates were passionate SND volunteers who have devoted a lot [...]
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By Katherine Myrick, Indiana University/SND
Kris Viesselman was at her most inspiring when she said that the secret weapon for all visual journalists is a pencil. It is impossible to keep up with every development in technology, but we can all use a pencil, which is the best tool we [...]
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By Alejandro Bruna, Universidad Católica de Chile/SND
Dressed in a black shirt, navy blue jeans and sandals, Karl Gude stood tall and ready to talk to an eager audience this Friday, September 25th. His conference, “Design and Visual Communication, Do’s & Don’ts” was right after Nigel Holmes’ opening session. Gude’s [...]
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By Kathleen Sullivan, Gannett/SND
The question: How to do graphics that are clean and simple ? what are the rules?
Good graphics don’t distract, confuse or mislead the reader. The goal is to inform as quickly and best as possible.
An example:
Cairo referenced the famous “ghost map” by John Stow, which [...]
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By Adam Griffiths, Kent State University/SND
Crisis is an opportunity.
That was Olivier Bourgeois?s message Friday afternoon at his session, “The Newspaper Industry and Economic Crisis.” Bourgeois, from France, is the general director of southwest Europe for WAN-IFRA, the worldwide research and service organization for the news [...]
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By Sahar Vahidi, Syracuse University/SND
John Grimwade: “I’m a big baseball fan, which is weird because I’m British…”
Oh, and: “New Yorkers feel the the center of the universe revolves around them.”
And: “If all the information is out there, we have find ways to show it to
people, to make ourselves relevant.”
Grimwade [...]
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By Sahar Vahidi, Syracuse/SND
Claudia Guillén’s presentation was a case study on Peruvian newspapers, specifically tabloids known as “Diarios Chichas”. The most popular Chicha papers currently are El Trome, Aja, and Diario El Popular.
During the 90s, a large amount of people moved to Lima from the Andes. In result, there [...]
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By Chris Courtney, Tribune Interactive/SND
‘The best way to predict the future is to invent one.’ ? an Alan Key quote that Wiedermann used to sum up his presentation
Newspapers and the media as a whole are always looking over their shoulder for the next advancement in communication that is going [...]
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Today, photography is becoming more and more democratized. Just about anyone can go out an buy an technologically advanced camera, take pictures with it, and share it across the world via the internet. Because of this, photographers must work hard to retain quality in their work and while also [...]
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Presented by John Grimwade, Juan Velasco
Pantone 293…
The glasses…
Landmark information graphics…
Nigel Holmes.
Over more than four decades, Nigel has been a guiding light to information
designers. Workshops, books, lectures, and 16-years as graphics director of
Time magazine. He?s passed on his enthusiasm for presenting information to
thousands of people working in our business today, [...]
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Premio de reconocimiento a la carrera de Miguel Urabayen
Lifetime achievement award to Miguel Urabayen
Presented by Javier Errea, Cristobal Edwards
Miguel Urabayen conoció personalmente a Nigel Holmes en Pamplona en marzo de 2004. Coincidieron allí en el jurado de los premios Malofiej de infografía. Fue la última vez que Miguel formó [...]
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All day today and tomorrow we’ll be updating with synopses of workshop sessions, with video and photos. Check back for updates on sessions you’re interested in!
Updated: 1:47 a.m. Many entries, lots more photos and entries to come later tonight and tomorrow. Hope you enjoy them! —WM
Sessions
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Updated: 1:26 p.m. Photos are starting to arrive this hour. Hopefully text will come next!
Sessions
9 a.m. Keynote address
- Nigel Holmes, “Who cares about data?”
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The Best of Multimedia Design winners were awarded at the 2009 Society for News Design annual workshop and exhibition in Buenos Aires on Sept. 24. The competition recognizes skill, innovation and high-quality visual journalism in Web and other new-media design with quarterly and annual awards. Out of 170 quarterly [...]
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Each year it is the privilege of the SND president to bestow special recognition on volunteers whose service has lasting impact on the society. This year, at the opening receptionn in Buenos Aires, it was my great pleasure to present President Awards for excellence in volunteerism to three men [...]
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Blog entry contributed by Alejandro Bruna (Universidad Católica de Chile) and Lauren Frohne (University of North Carolina)
With a clear sky and tango sounding in the streets of Buenos Aires, the SND summit 2009 began at last, after so much anticipation. Students and professionals from countries like Norway, Brazil, Ecuador [...]
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My guidebook cheerily refers to Buenos Aires as the “Paris of the South.” I’ve been hearing that since I first started thinking of this trip, but after spending two days wandering the city, it seems like that may not be entirely accurate. The city is beautiful and cosmopolitan, sprawling [...]
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We caught up with Gustavo Lo Valvo, Clarín’s design director and our conference coordinator late Tuesday as he was making the rounds with SND’s Elise Burroughs and Susan Santoro, checking over last-minute details late Tuesday. “I want everyone to have a great time,” Gustavo said. One key development with [...]
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SND has a great day of digital media training planned for Saturday, Oct. 10, at Michigan State University. You’ll learn about the best ideas for Web site design, free online tools, the Detroit Free Press? new e-reader platform and hands-on techniques for using social media, mobile and other internet [...]
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The Annual Members Meeting of the Society for News Design takes place at 1:15 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, at the Borges Cultural Center, Viamonte and San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the Annual Meeting, members will hear [...]
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An inside look at the 2009 Best of Multimedia Design awards judging, with a view on trends
Society for News Design Best of Multimedia Contest
SND?s the Best of Multimedia Design competition uses the volunteered services of nine judges from top multimedia design backgrounds. With a goal of honoring [...]
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After a year-long submission period, during which the quarterly winners were determined, the nine judges at the annual Best of Multimedia Design competition are looking for the best of the best. This weekend, they are evaluating professional breaking and non-breaking news presentations, as well as student presentations, to find [...]
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From 18 quarterly winners in the Breaking News category, five multimedia entries emerged as finalists. Breaking News was the first category judged in the annual Best of Multimedia Design Competition, held at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill. The SND competition guidelines define breaking news [...]
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Leading thinkers in multimedia design arrived in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday to meet for the annual review of quarterly winners in SND’s Best of Multimedia Design Competition. A panel of photojournalists, designers, interactive producers, creative directors and professors are all together after a year of judging entries remotely each [...]
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Stay here on SND Update all through Friday and Saturday to follow the coverage of the judges’ deliberations in
SND’s Best of Multimedia Design competition. Finalists in each category will
be announced as soon as they are determined. Medalists will be announced at
SND’s Annual Workshop and Exhibition on Sept. 24 in [...]
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The Nominations Committee of the Society for News Design, chaired by immediate past-president Gayle Grin, has announced six SND members as candidates for the upcoming 2009 election.
THE BALLOT
President
? Jeff Goertzen
? Kris Viesselman
Vice president
? Patricia Cox
? Steve Dorsey
Secretary/treasurer
? Jonathon Berlin
? Lily Lu
When: Ballots will go out to current SND members [...]
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In light of Vice President Bonita Burton’s decision to remove herself from the ladder for president, the SND board is seeking nominations from members for president and vice president. Nominations for the position of secretary/treasurer were received last week, [...]
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Brian A. Schlansky, a senior studying visual journalism at the University of Miami School of Communication, is the 2009 recipient of the Society for News Design Foundation Scholarship, a $2,000 award.
Schlansky became interested in visual journalism as a college freshman when he participated in a photo camp sponsored [...]
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Dear members of SND,
I?m writing to tell you that I have made the decision to not pursue the 2010 presidency.
I will complete my term as vice president, but I do not intend to counter the campaign launched [...]
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SND’s fall election is right around the corner, and we want to hear from you about who should help lead the organization into the future.
SND’s strength has always been as a member-to member organization, and we want our election process to reflect that. We’re seeking your nominations for [...]
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Quality design and independent and audacious journalism will continue to guarantee circulation and advertising revenue during a difficult era for newspapers. This is the conclusion of Joseph Dreier, co-organizer of the Annual Meeting of the Society for News Design, Region 16/DACH, on June 26/27 in Linz, [...]
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SND board members gathered in Orlando over the weekend to work through key issues facing the Society, ranging from membership and budget concerns to larger strategic and organizational topics. The group, joined by past presidents Tony Majeri and Randy Stano, also heard updates from task forces formed Matt [...]
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Posted: July 29, 2009, 10:54am EDT by Dorsey
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 Michael Rice has been named the 31st Edition Coordinator for the Society’s international creative news design competition for the 2009 judging year, according to Competition Director Marshall Matlock. Rice is visual team leader for design & graphics at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson.
?This was [...]
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THE PROGRAM
Here’s how the really cool day is shaping up
First up…News flash from the future: What will journalism look like? (Noon-12:45 p.m.)
 Design and innovation powerhouse IDEO has sketched out 14 scenarios for the future of news. From newsroom cafés to new interactive solutions to sharing [...]
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Posted: July 16, 2009, 1:22pm EDT by Pai
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Two visual leaders have joined SND’s board as regional directors. Lee Steele, of the Connecticut Post, will represent New England, Region 1.Norma Ramierez of the Altamirano Editorial Group in El Salvador will represent Central America, Region 11.
Steele, is the design editor at the Connecticut Post [...]
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Have some fun this week! Take a look at the terrific, just revamped SND Region 20 blog.
Regional Director Douglas Okasaki is based in the Middle East but he has scoured the world to post links to news articles, work samples, page roundups and even [...]
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Two visual journalism educators who need no introduction to SND members have agreed to fill the open advisory seats on the executive committee.
Kenny Irby, Visual Journalism Group Leader & Director of Diversity at The Poynter Institute and Cristóbal Edwards, visual journalism professor [...]
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Photo by Lars Pryds
Oulu Finland was the site of SNDScandinavia’s annual workshop - Oulu24 from May 14 to 16. Why the 24? A whole lot of sun! It was light almost around the clock. Oulu is located in the northern part of Finland, about 75 miles [...]
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We’ve heard from many of you about the importance that training plays in terms of SND’s tangible worth to you.
We’ve made some important changes over the last two years to transform the kinds of training SND offers.
We put out a survey to ask you what kinds of [...]
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SND’s German-language affiliate, DACH, representing visual journalists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, holds its annual meeting June 26-27 in Linz, Austria.
Sessions explore design, photography, information graphics, typography, illustration and more. World’s Best-Designed Newspapers? will be on display. Speakers include Mark Porter, Wolfgang Beinert, Wolfgang Ammer, Andrew Timmins, [...]
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The grants will help the students attend the 31st SND Annual Workshop & Exhibition, Sept. 24-26, 2009, in Buenos Aires.
Visual students worldwide were invited to apply for the grants and applications were received from 25 in the United States and 70 in South America. The students selected for grants [...]
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Society for News Design Vice President Bonita Burton and the SND Executive Committee are pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Mango Curtis and Jonathon Berlin to key positions. We’re still seeking volunteers for several other positions.
 Susan Mango Curtis, an assistant professor at [...]
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Want a glimpse of the future? Try new challenges or careers? Or do you just want a laugh? The Society for News Design and Adobe would like to invite you to an afternoon of education, conversation and fun in San Francisco on Saturday, July 18. This is [...]
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Posted: June 21, 2009, 3:00pm EDT by Pai
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Dear SND members,
You have heard a lot of information tossed out during the last few days on how your elected officers and appointed board have handled two significant issues that collided: a search for a new executive director and a possible move of the Society’s offices to a university [...]
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Members have called for an explanation of the events that led to SND President Matt Mansfield’s resignation, as well as the resignations of SND Foundation President Bill Gaspard, Publications Director Tyson Evans, and East Coast Metro Regional Director Jon Wile. We submit this with the hope that we can [...]
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Last week President Matt Mansfield announced he is resigning, effective Thursday. Several members had questions about what this means for the future of the Society. Here are a few answers…
Q: What does that mean for SND, and where do we go from here?
A: The Society for News Design, [...]
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Matt Mansfield, SND’s president, and Bonita Burton, vice president, will answer questions about Mansfield’s resignation, the future of the Society, and steps being taken to ensure there’s a smooth transition. They will also talk about the Society’s ambitious agenda moving forward. We know you have questions. We have answers. [...]
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To: Society for News Design members
From: Past Presidents
Matt Mansfield, the current SND president, has resigned, effective June 18. The reasons for his resignation are not altogether clear to those of us who do not sit on the board of directors, but I ? and at least 13 other founders [...]
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Dear SND members,
I’m resigning as president of the Society for News Design.
It’s not a choice I make lightly, especially because I was elected by you to serve your interests in this organization — and because I love SND.
But it’s recently become clear to me that I should move [...]
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Elise Burroughs, executive director of the Society for News Design since July 2004, is leaving the position to explore new options.
The Society is an international nonprofit membership organization of visual journalists in more than 50 countries. When Burroughs arrived in 2004, the Board of Directors had an ambitious [...]
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We reported here last week on the Russian Newspaper Design Competition. Now see the 56 winners from the sixth annual competition and some of the pages.
The winners were chosen from a field of 48 newspapers representing different regions of Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan [...]
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Posted: June 03, 2009, 2:00pm EDT by Jon Wile
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Graphic design legend Nigel Holmes will be joining us in Buenos Aires to deliver the keynote for this year’s annual workshop, which happens Sept. 24-26 in Argentina.
“We’re thrilled to have the legendary graphic designer and theorist as the keynote speaker,” said Matt [...]
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Posted: May 28, 2009, 3:27pm EDT by Jon Wile
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While the Chicago meetup was taking place at Tribune Towers, halfway around the world there was another SND event happening in Moscow ? the Russian Newspaper Design Competition.
This was the sixth annual contest, which had 48 newspapers entered from Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and Kazakhstan. The judges handed out 56 [...]
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Posted: May 26, 2009, 9:15am EDT by Gayle Grin
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A recap from Chicago: We spent Saturday afternoon at Tribune tower for a regional meet-up with a great variety of speakers. Throughout the afternoon we posted some of the highlights.
Plenty of attendees were on Twitter, so look for more by searching #sndchicago.
And, the talented Mike Rohde has [...]
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Jennifer George-Palilonis, the journalism graphics sequence coordinator at Ball State University, has been appointed SND’s U.S. education director.
Jennifer joins our international education director Michael Stoll, Professor/Visual Design of Germany’s Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. The two directors make up our education team and serve on the SND Foundation board.
In [...]
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After two years of research and development ? focus groups and online communities with thousands of readers ? the Atlanta Journal-Constitution launched the first part of its transformative redesign today. Not just a new look, the paper has reorganized the newsroom, reallocated resources and rethought how the print product [...]
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Posted: April 28, 2009, 1:35am EDT by Dorsey
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Across our industry ideas once dismissed as ?too radical? are now becoming commonplace. Don?t get left behind! Join us at the Orlando Sentinel on April 17 to see how experimental concepts are rolling out around the country.
Schedule:
9:30 a.m. Registration, bagels and newspapers
10 a.m. The Detroit Free Press fired [...]
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As we put another American newspaper to bed, here are some memories of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Please add your own in the comments.
We’ve enjoyed the competition with the P-I tremendously over the years, wincing on the rare occasions when they “beat” us with a stronger front-page design and savoring [...]
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A report from the SND Infographics Design/Asian Boot Camp that was held last weekend (March 26-28, 2009) in Chongqing, China
They gathered us together inside a bomb shelter at an abandoned warehouse in Chongqing, China. What was once built as a place of refuge during the Cold-War era, now served [...]
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The Detroit News and Detroit Free-Press launched redesigns, e-editions and a new circulation strategy Monday in response to the torrent of changes buffeting newspapers these days.
The papers will still produce and distribute 7 days a week but the will be home-delivered only on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.
We caught up [...]
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The International Herald Tribune’s Web site merged with nytimes.com today, creating the new global.nytimes.com (note from the publisher and FAQ) while the print edition updated it’s look to link it closer with the Times’ print identity. Reuters’ report says: “It?s no secret that the International [...]
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Meeting in Pamplona, Spain at the University of Navarra, the jury of Malofiej 17 awarded the top prize, the Peter Sullivan Award, to the New York Times and NYTimes.com for a piece titled “The Ebb and Flow of Movies,” which examined [...]
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As a front page designer at The Washington Post, I have seen the landscape of newspapers change dramatically over the past few years. Circulation numbers and ad revenue are falling at staggering rates, newsprint prices are rising, and the economy is in turmoil. But my biggest worry faced me [...]
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Posted: March 30, 2009, 4:01am EDT by Jon Wile
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Big problems need big solutions. The problems facing newspaper companies today need some of the biggest ideas available. But finding those hasn’t been easy ? lots of people have tried.
On Saturday, the Society joined a day-long event in Washington aimed at helping the struggling newspaper [...]
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The RevenueTwoPointZero event happened on Saturday in Washington. This is the report from the small business solutions team.
Our group considering options for small and medium businesses started by putting ourselves in business owners? shoes, imagining:
- A handful of employees, if that many
- Probably only one location, and probably not [...]
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The RevenueTwoPointZero event happened on Saturday in Washington. This is the report from the classified solutions team.
Classified advertising ? which includes cars, jobs and homes ? used to account for 25-50 percent of newspaper revenue. Most of that advertising has migrated from print to [...]
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The RevenueTwoPointZero event happened on Saturday in Washington. This is the report from the mobile team.
Our solutions for monetizing the iPhone are based on existing technology but an emerging audience. The current audience may be small, but it’s clearly growing. Mobile remains new, so [...]
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The RevenueTwoPointZero event happened on Saturday in Washington. This is the report from the display advertising solutions team.
Homepages get more traffic than any other single page on a news site. Typically, they provide a convenient digest of the newest posts on a site, [...]
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Posted: March 22, 2009, 1:47am EDT by Chrys Wu
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The last print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer appeared this morning. The P-I has a wonderful “Remembering the P-I” section with videos and stories from the paper’s famous (and not so famous) voices.
From The pioneering P-I slips [...]
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Longtime creative force Janet Froelich is leaving The New York Times Magazine for a job directing all things visual at Real Simple. A memo from Gerry Marzorati, assistant managing editor and editor of The Times Magazine, went to staffers today. It begins: “I am about to write one of [...]
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Thanks to P-I graphics and design editor Julie Simon for the front page images
The Hearst Corp., announced today that it will close the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Tuesday. The March 17 newspaper will be the final edition of the 146-year-old, 118,000-circulation newspaper.
Hearst, which is privately held, owns [...]
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer possessed a ragamuffin toughness. Like a two-fisted street kid, it earned its share of battle scars and wore them proudly.
While at the P-I – those of us who worked there rarely called it the “Post-Intelligencer” – I found my ideas about visual storytelling shaped by people like [...]
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Matt Ericson and Shan Carter of The New York Times discuss the election graphics the news organization did during the long walk-up to the election of Barack Obama. The Times’ graphics broke interesting new ground in news interactivity. Download the presentation here (PDF: 26.6MB).
Matt [...]
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Sarah Slobin, who worked in information graphics at both Fortune and The New York Times, discusses how interactive graphics are changing the field. And she provides inspiration on making the jump from print to online. Read her piece on being laid off here. Download her presentation [...]
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Rolling Stone art director Joe Hutchinson discusses art direction, the keys to finding voice inside a publication’s architecture, collaborating with others, and knowing when to take risks that will set your team’s work apart. Download Joe’s presentation here (PDF: 69.7MB).
Joe Hutchinson - SND NYC [...]
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Next weekend, the Society will be part of a day-long event in Washington aimed at helping the struggling newspaper industry find revenue solutions in a few key areas. The belief is that design thinking can help frame the issue because those of [...]
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The Society for News Design Foundation is offering grants to select SND Quick Courses to current and former members who have lost their job in the economic upheaval.
The grants cover the $300-400 registration fee for upcoming Quick Courses that the Society is offering in Web/interactive training. Apply now at [...]
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Graphics legend Nigel Holmes talks about the current “mess we’re in” and how remaining passionate in the face of the current crisis may be the best defense.
Nigel Holmes - SND NYC meetup from Society for News Design on Vimeo.
Nigel Holmes [...]
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Have you seen this cool new viewer for several major newspaper’s front pages? NEWScan makes the pages large enough to read in a very nice viewing experience that you can simply slide across. The pages come from the Today’s [...]
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Editor’s note: This essay is published in the next issue of Design, which will be mailed to Society for News Design members this spring. The new double issue, “Hitting the reset button,” helps you reboot your career, your soul, your creativity and your journalistic moxie as the [...]
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We were in New York City on Saturday for a free regional meetup. More than 100 people joined us in person and many more checked in online. The all-star lineup of speakers included graphics legend Nigel Holmes, Rolling Stone art director Joe Hutchinson, former Fortune graphics editor Sarah Slobin, [...]
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Posted: March 04, 2009, 8:05pm EST by Jon Wile
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The Society for News Design Chinese-language affiliate, SND Chinese, has opened registrations for the Infographics Design/Asian Boot Camp, March 27-29 in ChongQing, China.
This new event is hosted by the ChongQing Times, which won a Silver medal in February in SND’s 30th Best of Newspaper Design? Creative [...]
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