Roger Black to “tweak” Washington Post design
Erik Wemple of the Washington City Paper reports today:
“Instead of a redesign, it’ll be much more of a cleaning up of visually contrasting elements,” says a Post source, referring to “typefaces changing from section to section,” among other minor design problems.
In a Wednesday meeting with a group of newsroom leaders, [Roger] Black pushed his audience to think expansively about what the paper needs and what it can eliminate. One attendee says Black will be focusing on how to fit the Post’s journalism in an ever-shrinking news hole, as well as coming up with “strategies for helping stories pop off the page more.”
Roger is working on the print product as well as the web site, Wemple reports. No time table is given.
Just last May, DaniloBlack redesigned the Washington Times web site. The Post reportedly spent $200,000 on a site redesign in 2007 that was mostly abandoned, Wemple reports.
Read Wemple’s in-depth report here. Find Roger’s web site here.
