Election coverage: It’s all about the plan
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...
View ArticleReplay Session: Lessons from the Gannett, Tribune, Scripps & Hearst design hubs
This session was streamed via CoverItLive and will focused on the design hub consolidation at Gannett, Tribune, Scripps and Hearst, with leaders from each organization discussing what they’ve learned,...
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Charles grapples with inspiration
Charles Apple talks about Meg Lavey-Heaton (image from apple.copydesk.org) Charles Apple veered from his characteristic and informative visual journalism talks, and instead, delivered an evangelical...
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Roar from China: The Liaoning Daily’s Golden Tiger
It was the year of the Tiger, 2010. At the Liaoning Daily, visual director Qingiun Zhang and his team were striving to do something different, something special to mark the year, to tell the story....
View ArticleQuality and quantity: where to focus cross-platform editing resources
Our newsrooms aren’t getting any more resources, even while our work grows more demanding. SEO this! Re-edit this for print! Get it online now! Where do we focus our limited time and effort, and is...
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Dave Gray on better meetings through “gamestorming”
Dave Gray, founder of XPLANE, demonstrates gamestorming at the Saturday 11 a.m. keynote in St. Louis. David Yanofsky, an interactive designer at Bloomberg News, presenting his ‘problem-solving’ map in...
View ArticleBig question at SND STL: What inspires you?
We all need a little inspiration sometimes, and where better to find it than at a conference full of designers? Here is a collection of Tweets from the 2011 Society for News Design conference in St....
View ArticleFive News Sites and Apps Named World’s Best Designed
Five Web sites and mobile apps were named World’s Best Designed™ in the inaugural year of the Society for News Design’s annual Best of Digital News Design competition. CNN: World’s Best-Designed News...
View ArticleSND Lifetime Achievement Award: Gayle Grin
A tribute in quotes For her creative work and leadership at papers in Canada that have been an inspiration and her enthusiastic, smart and tireless work on behalf of SND that has benefited us all, the...
View ArticleSND Lifetime Achievement Award: Roger Fidler
The Society for News Design is proud to present its Lifetime Achievement Award to an innovator, leader, teacher, founder and friend: Roger Fidler. Fidler, the digital program director at Digital...
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Meet 2011 College Designer of the Year Jason Willis
Yes, Jason Willis sleeps. This is the answer to one of the burning questions the design students in my class had after looking at the online portfolio of SND’s 2011 College Designer of the Year. Willis...
View ArticlePicture this: Napkin self portraits
It doesn't come as a big surprise that a lot of good work at the annual SND workshop happens at the bar. In this case, Ball State students Valerie Carnevale and Stephanie Stamm set out to get as many...
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