Charles Apple

Orlando Sentinel AME/Visuals Bonita Burton sent out a happy message today announcing three — count ‘em, three — new hires:

I’m delighted to announce that three award-winning visual journalists will be joining the Sentinel in the coming weeks - just in time to help get some of our exciting redesign work off the ground.
Ebony Stith, a features designer at the Palm Beach Post, will join Wesley Alden’s dayside design team on April 28.

Ebony came to the Post via the Detroit News and Flint Journal, collecting honors from NABJ along the way. She and her husband, Derek, are the parents of a seven-year-old daughter, Erin, and a 7-month-old son, Darren.

A few samples of Ebony’s work:

Find more in her NewsPageDesigner portfolio.

Karen Bellville, a graphic artist at the Fort Myers [Fla.] News Press will join Todd Stewart’s graphics/weekend design team on May 5.

Karen has worked in a variety of advertising and newsroom jobs for Gannett before finding her niche in 3D graphics, work that has won recognition from SND.

The first two pieces were SND award winners:

You can find more in her NewsPageDesigner portfolio.

Autumn Heep, a designer at the Syracuse [N.Y.] Post-Standard will join Stephen Komives‘ nightside design team on May 19.

Autumn is a Syracuse alum who parlayed her college internship into a full-time gig there several years ago. Autumn has assisted in the SND judging and last year won the paper’s first SND award.

A few samples:

Check out more in her NewsPageDesigner portfolio.

A few other changes in the group:

* Joan Andrews will move to the dayside team.

* Wonetha Jackson will move to the weekend design team.

* Tory Hargro is going to cross-train in photo for the next few months, helping us get a more robust photojournalism channel going on the web.

Wow. Is Bo leaving anyone else to be hired by the rest of the news design community? On the other hand, is anyone else in the news design community hiring?

What an impressive group you’re bringing in, Bo. Congratulations to all involved!

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