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Two ways to save hundreds of travel dollars at SND Vegas
- Easy, get a roommate to split the costs.
- Stay somewhere else, anywhere else.
Click on this interactive map to see the alternate travel bargains I found in minutes.
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With the Tribune newspaper redesigns taking place this summer (Orlando, Chicago, Baltimore, Hartford . . .) and the just-debuted redesign of The Times of London, it might be a good time to share a recently published chapter of the top Newspaper and Newspaper Web site redesigns published by the World Editors Forum - Trends in Newsrooms 2008.
The in-depth report by the World Editors Forum presents the most important developments in today’s newsrooms with detailed case studies of some of the world’s most innovative newsrooms. I was asked to be part of a panel that included world-class editorial design colleagues Ally Palmer (U.K.) , Lucie Lacava (Canada), Jördis Guzmán Bulla (Germany), and Peter Ong (Australia).
We all nominated the top efforts over the 2006-2007 time period and the World Editors forum staff reported, researched further and produced this excellent report.
No telling which of this year’s Trib makeovers might make a future list, but as you can see - the world standard for excellence in newspapers is very high - both for original content and consistently excellent presentation, page-to-page.
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CMYK at Al-Haram in Cairo, Egypt
The tiles in the floor of the pre-press room at Al-Haram newspaper offices in Cairo, Egypt.
I spent four hours last night documenting and filming at the offices of Al-Haram shadowing the deputy editor as he closes the paper and edits the front page between editions with his night crew. I left at 1 a.m., the editor in charge left two hours later.
I have shot video clips to also let you see what it is like to work on the front page at Egypt’s largest-circulation paid daily newspaper. So stay tuned . . . I am flying back to Chicago in a few hours and it may take a week or so to recalibrate my senses.
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There is a new group on Facebook called Newspaper Escape Plan and with all the layoffs and notices of layoffs it has mushroomed in less than two weeks. My Aussie and UK Facebook pals are also worried now that layoff fever has infected their environs.
Here is how the growth has been charted
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