Chicago Tribune hires four to help with increased presentation load
The Chicago Tribune has hired four new visual journalist to help handle the additional workload of putting out both a daily broadsheet plus a daily tab, says AME for presentation Joe Knowles.
A look at the four:
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KENNEY MARLATT
Indianapolis Star
A 2000 graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., Kenney spent five years as a designer for the San Jose Mercury News. He moved to the Star three-and-a-half years ago as news design editor.
Kenney says on his Facebook page that he’ll be…
…working with many friends. Should be fun! But am pretty bummed to leave Indy. I’ll miss my Indy peeps!
Find examples of Kenney’s work here. Find his blog here.
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STEPHANIE YIU
Boston Globe
A 2008 graduate of Northwestern University, Stephanie has worked an extended internship with the Boston Globe. Her previous internships were with The Oregonian, Northwestern magazine, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Shape magazine in Singapore.
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DAN MANN
Chicago Sun-Times
Dan was Sunday sports editor for the Sun-Times. Find a few samples of pages he worked on here.
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ERIC REYES
Daily Herald
Eric was metro news editor for the Daily Herald, a chain of suburban papers based in Arlington Heights, Ill.
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Eric started work yesterday. The other three begin next Monday, Jan. 26, Joe says:
These hires were necessary to produce our new street-sales edition as well as our new Chicagoland Extra sections, which also make their debut this week.
Additionally, we wanted to rebuild our staff around a new model, which stresses versatility and resourcefulness. We need more crossover between disciplines, less territorialism (is that a word?) on the news desks. You can’t just do one thing well and get hired here now. You need to do a lot of things well.
For example, we used to divide our graphics department into “artists” and “coordinators” (or reporters). That system never really worked for me, even when we had the luxury of a larger staff. Too much gets lost in the translation between reporter and artist. You remember the system well, and not fondly I bet. It’s inefficient and, even worse, ineffective.
Why not just have a whole room full of people who can report and execute graphics? They’re out there. That’s the new model.