Newspaper design, visual journalism, and documentary video
The Society of News Design ends the year with a top 10 list of the big efforts in 2008.
Here’s a wee summary I hacked up in Yahoo! Pipes.
Click on any story link to read the full text on SND’s Update Web site.
I hope they consider publishing this great collection of analysis and review material in print.
Nice job to all the authors!
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LAS VEGAS: This an interview I made with the 27-year-old founding editor for Moscow’s youth-oriented Akzia newspaper. Svetlana Maximchenko was in Las Vegas to pick up her award for World’s Best Designed newspaper and also speak at the SND APME congress.
Slide from Andrew DeVigal’s SND session in Las Vegas. Andrew is the multimedia editor of The New York Times.
This photo by San Jose Mercury News designer, Ashley Dinges, is perhaps one of the most compelling statements from among the almost 600 images posted to Flickr and tagged “sndvegas.”
I admit that I haven’t studied every last bowling party photo (Below are more photo galleries from SND staff bloggers) but this one from Ashley is a keeper.
Why? If you want to see where the future is heading - study these intersections closely. Andrew’s graphic is telling on many levels. It is good at focusing on pro journos pushing content out there smartly but I can’t see any evidence of enabling what I call the “Social Narrative” (Community news tips, comments, UGC, ratings, embedding, et all). The narrative elements that I strongly believe also must be integrated in any new thinking regarding integrating newsroom workflows. I talk a little bit more about this after the video segment.
I filmed a lot of material in Las Vegas with the hopes of editing them into non-deadline pieces. I have interviews, for example with the editor-in-chief of a wildly successful newspaper that is published in Moscow, Russia . . . and an interview with a student who won an internship in the famous SND INTERN competition.
The footage from those upcoming films are cool because they were produced away from the casino. One filmed at Red Rocks Canyon National Park and the other - on the Las Vegas Strip.
So what? Well, I wasn’t planning producing a fast film to Web to report any breaking news.
I wasn’t until some spot news happened. Jonathon Berlin, Design director of the Chicago Tribune splashed a few pages of the redesigned newspaper on screen at the end of a talk he was giving about planning election coverage.
Reporting this breaking news event reminds me of the time when I was sitting next to IFRA guru Dietmar Schantin in the Kremlin in 2006 when a Bolshevik protest erupted 30 feet from me just as Vladmir Putin was about to speak.
In other words, grab your small camera, turn it on and hope for the best. That’s where online video journalism can shine.
Sneak peek at Chicago Tribune redesign
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Moscow protest (from June 2006)
And now more photo galleries from visual editors who photo-documented their experiences from SND Las Vegas. This is a strong visual narrative, but I also trust makes the point that the social narrative (the participation of the audience) must be part of graphic and every future session on the ‘future of journalism.’
Martin Gee
Bridget O’Donnell
Ashley Dinges
Jim Michalowski
Colin Bridge
Scott Goldman
Kenney Marlatt
Matt Erickson
Tyson Evans
Tim Ball
Robb Montgomery is the CEO of Visual Editors and an independent consultant.
He has worked as a visual editor for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune and partners with media groups and journalism associations in more than 16 countries to design training curriculum for video journalism, newspaper design and multimedia reporting.
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