June 23 Atlanta quickcourse - sign up now
If you’ve not yet made plans to attend the SND Quickcourse in Atlanta on Saturday, June 23, there is still time.
The site will be the AJC building on Marietta Street in downtown Atlanta, a block or two from CNN headquarters.
The cost: $95 for SND members, $150 for non-members. Students and faculty get in for $50 and $75, respectively.
The speakers:
1. LIVING THE PLATFORM-NEUTRAL LIFE
Ron Coddington, Senior Designer, USAToday.com
In the last year, USA Today merged its print and online editorial staffs, redesigned usatoday.com to integrate social networking, and embarked on a series of experiments to explore journalism in a platform-neutral environment. I’ve been involved in all three initiatives, and will share my experiences and observations.
Coddington is a visual journalist whose career spans several major U.S. newspapers, including USA Today, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the San Jose Mercury News, where he was part of the staff awarded the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting of the Bay Area earthquake and its aftermath. As art director for Knight-Ridder Tribune Graphics (now McClatchy Tribune Graphics) and KRT Interactive in Washington, D.C., he helped launch two successful products, Faces in the News caricature service (1993) and KRT European Graphics (1994). He embarked on his online career in 1995. Today, he is a senior designer at usatoday.com.
See Ron’s portfolio here:
http://roncoddington.com/—
2. THE PRINT + ONLINE CONNECTION
Chris Heisel, Director of online development, AJC
Minla Shields, Deputy director of photography, AJC
Michael Dabrowa, Online graphic artist, AJCVisuals (graphics and photos) that move from print to online, and visa versa. What works and doesn’t, including examples for large and small budgets. Simple vs. complex. How to work photo galleries into your coverage (readers love them). And yes, planning is important.
Read Chris Heisel’s blog here:
http://heisel.org/See Michael Dabrowa’s portfolio here:
http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=2990—
3. MAXIMIZING YOUR PRINT DESIGN: EVERY PAGE COUNTS
Cassie Armstrong, Orlando Sentinel news design editor
Inspiring designers with creative ideas for inside layout as well as covers.
Armstrong is the news design editor at the Orlando Sentinel and was the site chair for SND’s 2006 Annual Workshop and Exhibition in Orlando. She was a judge for the society’s Best of Newspaper Design competition in 2006. She previously worked for five years as the A1 lead designer at the Indianapolis Star, for three years as a page designer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and as a reporter/photographer/designer at a small afternoon daily in Robinson, Ill. Her work has been recognized with awards from SND and other organizations.
See Cassie’s portfolio here:
http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=2602—
4. INDUSTRY TRENDS FOR PRINT AND ONLINE
Chris Kelley, consultant from The Kelley Group
Targeted readers, niche publications, micro sites. What does that mean?
Chris is principal of The Kelley Group, a Dallas-based media consulting firm specializing in interactive strategy. His clients include Gazette Communications of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Blockbuster Inc. Prior to the launch of his firm last fall, Kelley was editor of DallasNews.com, Web site of The Dallas Morning News where he worked for 27 years. During Kelley’s five year tenure, DallasNews.com won several national journalism awards, among them the 2005 Online Convergence Award from the Associated Press Managing Editors and the 2004 Scripps-Howard Foundation Web Reporting Award.
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5. THE PROACTIVE GRAPHICS DEPARTMENT
Charles Apple, Virginian-Pilot graphics director
In this time of newsroom cutbacks, your “art deparment” has to be more than just a place to get locator maps, logos and icons. The only way we’ll survive into the next decade is to push content, content, content. Turn your “graphics geeks” into a resourceful, powerful content-driven visual journalism operation.
Apple has been the graphics director at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk for three years. Previously, he was graphics editor of The Des Moines Register and an artist for the Chicago Tribune, The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer and for small papers in South Carolina and Georgia. A winner of numerous awards from the Society for News Design for graphics and graphics reporting, Apple has taught seminars around the country, including a number of SND Quick Courses and the Annual SND Workshops & Exhibitions in Minneapolis in 2000 and Orlando in 2006. He writes a column for the society’s quarterly magazine, Design. He is a moderator and blogger for VisualEditors.com.
Find my portfolio here:
http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=188
Register online here:
https://www.snd.org/events/events.lasso?Register=32924
There’s a special $130/night rate at the Omni Hotel, which connects with the aforementioned CNN center. Ask for the “Cox Enterprises Rate” when making your reservation. Check it out here:
http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AtlantaCNNCenter.aspx?ysmchn=GGL&ysmcpn=branded+terms&ysmtrm=omni+atlanta&ysmtac=PPC&ysmgrp=Atlanta&ps=branded+terms
Here’s a quick-and-dirty map to get you there:
For more info about the quickcourse, contact the AJC’s Kenny Monteith:
(404) 526-7011
kmonteith@ajc.com