Charles Apple

A free news design meetup has been announced for Dec. 12 at the offices of the Daily Record in Hickory, N.C.

The event will begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 1:30. Richard Curtis, who retired last December after 27 years at USA Today, says an informal lunch will follow with time for networking and questions-and-answers.

The morning presentations will be aimed at small-to-medium-sized newspapers:

Richard Curtis, former managing editor/design, USA Today
How People Learn In Different Ways

Monty Cook, editor, the Baltimore Sun
The Three E’s of the New Media Landscape: Embrace, Engage and Expand

Don Wittekind, journalism professor, UNC-Chapel Hill
Multimedia on the Cheap: Low-cost, easy ways to add rich content to web sites

William Pitzer, news graphics editor, the Charlotte Observer
Five ideas that anyone can use for visualizing information in print and online

Richard points out that membership in the society is not required to attend. Attendance is free, but limited to the first 30 who sign up.

To sign up, contact John Josey, managing editor of the Lenoir News-Topic at jjosey [at] newstopic.net or Richard himself at lakehouse2 [at] cox.net

The Daily Record is located at 1100 Park Place in Hickory, just off I-40. However, if you’re Googling or Mapquesting for directions, try this address instead: 10th Ave. Court SE, Hickory, 28603.

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