The Victoria Advocate's Harry Potter themed newspaper.
Visual editor, Ryan Huddle posted an impressive gallery of Harry Potter themed pages in the gallery on
Visual Editors. (See slideshow embedded below)
He writes that his newspaper, the Victoria Advocate, had “a lot of success with the Victoria Prophet single pages we did in 2007. This year we went bigger and better with an entire section. We turned our weekly entertainment section into the Victoria Prophet with local feature stories, Advertising, Games, and we even have ads for the busniesses in the world of Harry Potter.”
In a time of contraction for some U.S. newsrooms it is heartening to see a paper take an idea like this and run with it and really, really do it right.
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Screenshot from Robb's new presentation on Visual Journalism: Evolution of the narrative
In this session, editors will learn presentation methods beyond the linear narrative. Discover alternate story forms and more visual approaches to make information easy for readers to comprehend. Also see techniques that embrace more Web-centric, community-driven presentations.
Understanding different story forms will help you to assign stories to writers in more meaningful ways. The session will use attendee’s publications as visual aids.
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Robb Montgomery in Moscow.
I’ll be presenting a lecture on visual journalism at the sixth Russian news design conference in Moscow Oct.31-Nov. 1
