Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Top 10 newspaper redesigns and Web site redesigns

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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Bucharest (Master class for Editors-in-chief)

Teaching on newspaper design and redesign trends at the world Editors Forum Master Class workshop in Romania October 2-3, 2008.

Bucharest (Master class for Editors-in-chief)
Romania: Master classes for Editors in Chief
October 02 — 03, 2008

Teaching video journalism at Newstrain: Student films



A few demonstration video reports from the APME Newstrain video and new media training seminar I was teaching at for the last two days. We went over the fundamental techniques for shooting and editing films. We covered a lot of ground in a short time and got people out shooting early and often. Video training demands immediate hands-on practice. The journalists were given assignments in phases; to tell visual stories with B-Roll, how to conduct interviews and these films represent some of the surprising things newspaper journalists found when turned loose with video cams on the streets of Harrisburg.


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Podcast: Susan Jacobson about teaching new media journalism

Jacobson, new media professor at Temple University, talks with Robb Montgomery at Newstrain about digital journalism. The Pennsylvania Newspaper Foundation hosted the event in their headquarters in Harrisburg. The podcast was produced as a live exercise by Robb Montgomery in the classroom using an iPhone and the Utterz service.

Newstrain in Harrisburg


Newstrain in Harrisburg

More than 80 APME Newstrain students gather in Harrisburg for day two - Social networks and everyday multimedia tools for reporters.

Orlando Sentinel redesign - A peek at the style guide

Bonita Burton, AME of the Orlando Sentinel explains that this first draft of the Orlando Sentinel redesign style book was designed as a “quick-and-dirty guide to what’s new - just something to tide folks over while we update the full style book.”
Sentinel designers Nick Masuda and Wes Meltzer get credit for producing it.

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