November 20 - December 20
Directing a documentary film project and teaching journalists how to report with video for MDP Egypt.
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This, just in from the alert-o-shpere.
New logo from IHT.com
The International Herald Tribune is dropping its ornate, 142-year-old logo for a more modern, simpler look. The detail-rich logo is being replaced by a phrase, “The Global Edition of the New York Times,” highlighting that the paper is fully part of the New York Times Co. after a 2002 deal.
Continue reading ‘International Herald Tribune drops logo from nameplate’
Thank you for your splendid contribution to our Media Conference in Kolding. It was a shame that we had to stop after only 45 minutes!
I hope to bump into you some other time.
All the best from grey Copenhagen
Continue reading ‘Holger Rosendal (Danish Newspaper Publishers Association)’
A few seconds of video that was captured by delegates attending today’s lecture.
And below are bookmarks to some of the research Robb shared with the audience.
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.
Continue reading ‘Top 10 newspaper redesigns and Web site redesigns’
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
Continue reading ‘Newspaper worker: Do you have an "Escape Plan?"’
Video tour: Newspaper design workshop in Cairo
I am in egypt this week teaching a series of newspaper design workshops at the beginning and advanced levels. This video and photo slideshow shows students from the first day designing, presenting and critiquing prototype newspapers they created as part of the rapid-prototyping section of the training.
Making movies in Alexandria Egypt
The view from my room overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. I am here working with 12 budding filmmakers who will report a video documentary about the state of daily newspapers in this city of six million people.
I first saw German-based startup, Plastic Logic, demo their remarkable flexible screen technology in Seoul in 2005 at the World Newspaper Congress. They had a small booth and small flexi-screen sample back then. And, I last updated Visual Editors in August of 2006 with a video round up of the latest e-readers. Today, my friends at SportsDesigner posted up a notice of a film clip they spotted.
Here is a demo video with Richard Archuleta, the CEO Plastic Logic, demonstrating the world’s first electronic reader aimed specifically for business users.
The Chicago Tribune recently raised their single copy cover price to 75 cents - a 50 percent hike - and shrunk the product to the 48-inch web width dimension.
They also took an unusual step with their brand equity - they changed their flag (a.k.a. the nameplate, masthead) from white type on blue field to blue type only, curiously matching in the most obvious of choices (”color”), the nameplates of the paper’s primary regional competitors.
The inversion of color is a fairly dramatic brand-identity change and only a jaded consumer would think the paper did it to distract from the price hike and size reduction.
A nameplate extends beyond page one. The old blue stripe nameplate was plastered on delivery trucks, news boxes as well their marketing and advertising for decades.
