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12: The blog has moved (0)
11: How to get a bazillion phone calls in your newsroom (0)
11: The New York Post just can’t let it go (0)
11: Birthdays for Sunday, July 11 (0)
10: In the Chicago Tribune again, 11 years later (4)
10: Birthday for Saturday, July 10 (0)
09: Don’t piss off the people of Poughkeepsie (0)
09: More advertising ‘fun’ today in the Los Angeles Times (2)
09: LeBron James story results in mirth and anguish on front pages (18)
09: Birthday for Friday, July 9 (0)
08: My favorite LeBron James treatment of the day… (0)
08: How Swedish paper VLT is covering an invasion of American muscle cars (0)
08: Visual/digital journalism meeting in Boston (1)
08: The most unfortunate headline you’ll see today (1)
08: Birthdays for Thursday, July 8 (0)
07: German paper talking World Cup smack on A1 (5)
07: Birthdays for Wednesday, July 7 (0)
06: Birthday for Tuesday, July 6 (0)
05: Young reporter covers Iowa parade disaster with first-person story, lead photo on A1 (0)
05: Economist magazine alters Reuters photo for cover (5)
05: Free SND meetup in Boston a week from today (0)
05: Birthdays for Monday, July 5 (0)
04: Doing much better this morning (8)
04: Birthdays for Sunday, July 4 (0)
03: A holiday weekend in the hospital (13)
03: Birthdays for Saturday, July 3 (0)
02: Off the grid for a while (6)
02: Updating the LAT faux news story story… (0)
02: Marietta, Ga.’s Abby Westcott moving to Asbury Park Press (0)
02: Birthdays for Friday, July 2 (0)
01: Summing up the Rolling Stone controversy (0)
01: A huge disaster in Los Angeles… (54)
01: A front page that’s good for the sole (2)
01: Birthday for Thursday, July 1 (0)

30: My daughter critiques Wednesday’s ‘Eclipse’ movie front pages (2)
30: Tuesday’s excellent front pages brought to you by small papers everywhere (2)
30: One story. Three papers. Three photos. All brilliant. (1)
30: Birthday for Wednesday, June 30 (0)
29: Memo to small papers: Copy edit your lead headline (1)
29: Bandwidth, server space and the future of this blog (24)
29: Birthdays for Tuesday, June 29 (0)
28: English papers are REAL hard on the country’s World Cup soccer team (6)
28: Thoughts on blogs and web sites and quoting and links (4)
28: Interviewed by a South African media columnist (0)
28: Birthday for Monday, June 28 (1)
27: For your consideration… (0)
27: Perhaps they’ll have better spellcheckers in the 24th century… (0)
27: The power of Twitter as a tool for producing great journalism (0)
27: Rosetta Stone software for driving through a roundabout (2)
27: Oh, soccer ‘is stupid, anyway’ says the New York Post (2)
27: Visualizing race relations in Huntsville, Ala. (5)
27: Birthdays for Sunday, June 27 (0)
26: Doonesbury on newspapers, continued (0)
26: Birthdays for Saturday, June 26 (0)
25: World Cup pages from South Africa and around the world (0)
25: Tacoma’s Fred Matamoros joining the world of magazine design (1)
25: The rest of my Star Wars graphics for the Huntsville Times (3)
25: A clever page-one political illustration in Australia (0)
25: Vampires might suck, but this idea by the Victoria (Texas) Advocate doesn’t (1)
25: Birthdays for Friday, June 25 (0)
24: A four-page, all-Portuguese pullout wrap in Durban, South Africa (0)
24: U.S. papers celebrate a huge ‘overtime’ win on page one (0)
24: It’s a scam, so don’t fall for it (8)
24: High praise from Ernie for Getty’s iPad app (0)
24: Birthdays for Thursday, June 24 (0)
23: Be careful, New York Post. Someone is gaining on you… (1)
23: Awesome weather coverage on Wednesday’s front pages (2)
23: Birthdays for Wednesday, June 23 (0)
22: Wednesday’s front pages from South Africa (2)
22: An international competition for World Cup presentations (0)
22: On Tuesday fronts: Puns and really cool Summer Solstice stories (1)
22: Covering a tornado in Billings, Mont. (0)
22: Doonesbury on newspapers (3)
22: Birthdays for Tuesday, June 22 (0)
21: My latest free-lance project: Star Wars science infographics (10)
21: Birthdays for Monday, June 21 (0)
20: Birthdays for Sunday, June 20 (0)
19: A collection of World Cup pages from Thursday, Friday and today (1)
19: World cup pages and graphics from South Africa’s Sunday papers (0)
19: Why sign painters need copy editors (1)
19: Birthday for Saturday, June 19 (0)
18: What’s the deal with those skyboxes in Huntsville, Ala.? (2)
18: A truly stunning World Cup “twinning” project in Durban, South Africa (1)
18: A very nice Friday front page by tiny Petoskey, Mich. (1)
18: What happens when you cut-and-paste from the internet (0)
18: Birthdays for Friday, June 18 (0)
17: Gannett’s Yuri Victor joins growing San Diego Union-Tribune team (3)
17: Lance Armstrong is no fan of Photoshop (2)
17: If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em (0)
17: Why cake decorators need copy editors (4)
17: Birthdays for Thursday, June 17 (0)
16: World Cup pages from South Africa and around the world (2)
16: A look at Wednesday’s front pages (1)
16: Now that the Poynter ‘tablet conference’ is over, here’s the REAL scoop (1)
16: Birthdays for Wednesday, June 16 (0)
15: Notable Tuesday front pages: Oil, rain, ice, rats and blackberries (0)
15: Munster Indiana’s Matt Erickson to leave newspapers (0)
15: Is this a real picture? Or has it been Photoshopped? (1)
14: A sign of the apocalypse: A Comic Sans headline in the Wall Street Journal (7)
14: Putting your money — or your job — where your mouth is (3)
14: Can you imagine running this photo on A1? (1)
14: Huntsville, Ala., Times hires second visuals intern (0)
14: Large displays on Monday front pages (0)
14: Birthdays for Monday, June 14 (0)
13: Gracious World Cup front pages? Not so much, perhaps… (11)
13: Birthday for Sunday, June 13 (0)
12: The most fun I’ve seen yet on a World Cup page (5)
12: Birthdays for Saturday, June 12 (0)
11: The front page of Saturday’s Johannesburg newspaper (0)
11: Opening Day pages for the soccer World Cup (0)
11: A fun review of the ‘totally wicked awesome’ 1980s… as a board-game (0)
11: Birthday for Friday, June 11 (0)
10: Tooting horns for Thursday’s World Cup pages (0)
10: Renee Petrina returns to the Indianapolis Star (0)
10: The BP ’spill,’ all over again (0)
10: Talking World Cup soccer graphics with Konstantinos Antonopoulos (3)
10: Birthdays for Thursday, June 10 (0)
09: Megan Lavey Heaton moving to Harrisburg, Pa., Patriot-News (13)
09: And, speaking of online advertising… (3)
09: San Diego Union-Tribune hires two high-profile Orange County Register alumni (0)
09: Contest: Design a new logo for BP (4)
09: Now THERE’S a poorly-chosen magazine cover image… (9)
09: Ominous news for online publishers (3)
09: Birthday for Wednesday, June 9 (0)
08: Inside today’s Chicago Tribune: A ’special’ hockey poster (0)
08: World Cup soccer pages from South Africa (1)
08: Studies in contrast on today’s front pages (0)
08: Birthday for Tuesday, June 8 (0)
07: Monday’s World Cup soccer pages (0)
07: How papers covered deadly tornadoes in Ohio and Illinois (0)
07: Lori Kelley named art director of Washington Post’s Express tab (0)
07: For your consideration… (1)
07: Birthday for Monday, June 7 (0)
06: Preparing readers for the soccer World Cup (3)
06: Honolulu Advertiser publishes final edition (1)
06: Birthdays for Sunday, June 6 (0)
05: Birthday for Saturday, June 5 (0)
04: How newspapers played those amazing oil-covered bird photos (0)
04: Birthdays for Friday, June 4 (1)
03: Oil spill story continues to make for interesting graphics (2)
03: Baseball on A1: Griffey retires and a not-quite-perfect game (0)
03: Birthdays for Thursday, June 3 (0)
02: NYT sports designer Josh Penrod to switch coasts (1)
02: Visualizing the oil spill (0)
02: Birthdays for Wednesday, June 2 (0)
01: Sports designer Luke Knox moving to the Boston Globe (9)
01: Birthdays for Tuesday, June 1 (0)

31: A look at front-page Memorial Day treatments (0)
30: Ongoing coverage of the crash at the end of today’s Indy 500 (0)
30: Birthday for Sunday, May 30 (0)
29: They used to call me ‘the battleship guy’ (13)
29: What the hell is happening in the Gulf? Our A1 reports vary widely today. (1)
29: Birthdays for Saturday, May 29 (0)
28: A lesson in humility, courtesy of John McIntyre (0)
28: Here is Karl Gude’s TEDx Lansing presentation (0)
28: Birthdays for Friday, May 28 (0)
27: Cool A1 oil spill graphic by USA Today (2)
27: Photoshop or natural phenomena? (1)
27: Birthdays for Thursday, May 27 (0)
26: Today’s major headline ‘oops,’ courtesy of the NY Post (1)
26: How the New York tabloids covered the Super Bowl announcement (0)
26: The next big online thing: Content shavers? (0)
26: Bridget O’Donnell joins China Daily in Beijing (2)
26: Ron Coddington named AME of Chronicle of Higher Education (0)
26: Birthdays for Wednesday, May 26 (2)
25: Birthdays for Tuesday, May 25 (1)
24: Birthday for Monday, May 24 (0)
23: Four interesting Sunday page-one visuals (3)
23: Birthday for Sunday, May 23 (0)
22: For your consideration… (2)
22: Birthdays for Saturday, May 22 (0)
21: Charting the amount of oil spilled in the Gulf (4)
21: Make sure you check out Google today (1)
21: Watch Karl Gude’s TEDx presentation via live streaming (0)
21: Philadelphia Inquirer to run 3D ads, content (1)
21: Birthdays for Friday, May 21 (0)
20: Birthdays for Thursday, May 20 (0)
19: Geez, do we have to preach Photoshop ethics AGAIN? (15)
19: For your consideration… (0)
19: The Toledo Free Press Star strikes back (0)
19: Birthdays for Wednesday, May 19 (0)
18: Birthdays for Tuesday, May 18 (0)
17: Baltimore Sun celebrates with 173-year-old nameplate (3)
17: Birthdays for Monday, May 17 (0)
16: Birthday for Sunday, May 16 (0)
15: Birthdays for Saturday, May 15 (0)
14: Why TV graphic artists should buy a Rand McNally atlas (1)
14: A ‘Robin Hood’ illustration that’s on-target (0)
14: Why web editors need to know how to take screen snapshots (0)
14: Birthdays for Friday, May 14 (0)
13: The worst of both worlds? (2)
13: ‘Geeks’ pull a naughty prank on the New York Times (0)
13: Adobe propaganda invades the New York Times’ web site (3)
13: Birthdays for Thursday, May 13 (0)
12: Was the lead art in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal offensive? (7)
12: Profiling a weird internet anti-hero with a weird cover illustration (1)
12: Coming soon to a newstand near you: 3D publishing (0)
11: Join us tonight for another VizEds chat (0)
11: Wanna see a cool optical illusion? (7)
11: Tornadoes in Oklahoma City (0)
11: Birthdays for Tuesday, May 11 (0)
10: Yet more pages from today’s ‘guest-edited’ Toronto Globe & Mail (0)
10: Why you don’t use stock art in political advertising (4)
10: Toronto Globe and Mail’s ‘Africa Century’ cover (1)
09: Monday’s Globe and Mail guest-edited by rockstar activists (3)
09: Detroit Free Press copy editor caught on video vandalizing new bridge (6)
09: Happy Mothers’ Day (0)
09: Birthday for Sunday, May 9 (0)
08: Birthdays for Saturday, May 8 (3)
07: So how do you show a Dow crash on A1? With a Dow fever chart, of course… (0)
07: A new trend? (3)
07: Birthday for Friday, May 7 (0)
06: Iron Man features treatments for fun and for profit (3)
06: BBC to turn ‘Big Ben’ into a giant election bar chart (1)
06: Tacoma News Tribune launches design “update” (0)
06: Birthday for Thursday, May 6 (0)
05: Fun with drop caps at the University of Utah Daily Chronicle (6)
05: Washington Post makes another stunning hire: Brian Gross of the Boston Globe (4)
05: Cute headline in today’s New York Times… (0)
05: Oil slick story provides opportunity for some slick graphics (3)
05: Connecticut Post launches redesign today (5)
05: Birthdays for Wednesday, May 5 (0)
04: Send me your Iron Man pages (0)
04: Remember these two kids from Monday’s Tennessean? (0)
04: Looking back at the Kent State incident, 40 years ago today (5)
04: Birthday for Tuesday, May 4 (0)
03: Political ads that stomp on your news (1)
03: Tim Ball changes status at the Washington Post (0)
03: Huntsville (Ala.) Times hires two, plus an intern (1)
03: ‘Overwhelmed’ by flood water in Nashville (2)
03: Birthdays for Monday, May 3 (0)
02: Today’s editorial wrap around the Arizona Republic (0)
02: Louisville, Ky., paper unable to deliver Derby edition today (0)
02: Birthdays for Sunday, May 2 (0)
01: City Press of Johannesburg, South Africa, redesigns (0)
01: Why photo editing is important (2)

30: ‘I’ve also visually cheated slightly here and there to make everything fit’ (0)
30: San Diego wraps edition in a retro-styled Spadea (1)
30: Coming Tuesday: The 40th anniversary of the Kent State shootings (3)
30: Arizona Republic’s Allisence Chang to leave newspapers for teaching (2)
29: Claims of visual plagiarism breaking out all over (1)
29: Birthdays for Thursday, April 29 (0)
28: First, Steal the photo off Twitter. Then, sue the photographer. (2)
28: Clever, clever stuff on today’s front pages (0)
27: Detroit News hires two 2010 graduates for design positions (0)
27: Copy editing guru John McIntyre returns to the Baltimore Sun (1)
27: Chronicle Herald of Halifax, Canada, redesigns (0)
27: Birthday for Tuesday, April 27 (0)
26: St. Louis’ Tippi Thole moves to Washington Post (1)
26: Reuters yanks overtoned, oversharpened photo of volcanic ash (0)
26: More tornado pages from Alabama and Mississippi (0)
26: Birthdays for Monday, April 26 (4)
25: Purdue student finds her ’silly boob joke’ all over the internet and the news (0)
25: NY Post features new football stadium. But not in a good way. (0)
25: Newspapers cover Saturday’s tornadoes in Mississippi (0)
25: Birthdays for Sunday, April 25 (0)
24: DIY craze expands to include newspapers (2)
24: Birthdays for Saturday, April 24 (0)
23: Put a smile on your Friday evening face (0)
23: How to blow a major magazine cover assignment (4)
23: On Friday front pages: Sunny skies abound (1)
23: Gulf News’ Miguel Gomez offering free design troubleshooting advice (0)
23: Birthdays for Friday, April 23 (0)
22: A look at Wednesday’s Chinese mourning front pages (1)
22: Washington Post launches new weekly business tab (0)
21: A bad word to misspell in a headline (1)
21: A local angle on the lost iPhone story (0)
21: The secret of how to save newspapers? (0)
21: Birthdays for Wednesday, April 21 (0)
20: For your consideration… (0)
20: National Geographic’s Kris Viesselman moving to San Diego Union-Tribune (1)
19: Indiana’s Larry Buchanan named SND student designer of the year (4)
19: UNC student project seeks your vote for a Webby People’s Choice award (0)
19: Finally, a front-page ad that I don’t despise (0)
18: Is that New York Post cover photo today for real? (4)
18: Birthdays for Sunday, April 18 (0)
17: Birthdays for Saturday, April 17 (0)
16: A couple of fun Friday front pages (2)
16: A really great idea from the Society for News Design (0)
16: Separated at birth? (3)
16: Birthdays for Friday, April 16 (0)
15: Ning says it’ll shut down its free social networks (2)
15: Even baseball jersey manufacturers need copy editors (3)
15: An update on Nicolas Rapp’s drive around the world (0)
15: Birthdays for Thursday, April 15 (0)
14: Highly-decorated photog-turned-college professor busts up bank heist (0)
14: Good news today on the front page of the Orlando Sentinel (1)
14: Dilbert picks on art departments (0)
14: The most interesting baseball photo we’ve seen lately… (0)
14: Arizona Republic’s Tyler Post moving to Columbus Dispatch (4)
14: Birthday for Wednesday, April 14 (0)
13: Join us tonight for another VizEds chat (1)
13: How Pulitzer prize-winning papers played their awards on A1 today (4)
13: About Friday’s huge Pittsburgh arena wrap-around cover (6)
13: Birthdays for Tuesday, April 13 (0)
12: Check out this awesome Pulitzer-winning news photo (0)
12: Monday’s Masters pages from the Augusta Chronicle (0)
12: Keeli Garza now working for Texas Motor Speedway (0)
12: Harrison Goodman now working for USA Today (0)
12: Birthday for Monday, April 12 (0)
11: Sunday Masters pages from the Augusta Chronicle (1)
11: Birthdays for Sunday, April 11 (0)
10: Saturday’s Masters pages from the Augusta Chronicle (1)
10: Birthdays for Saturday, April 10 (0)
09: Friday’s Masters pages from the Augusta Chronicle (0)
09: More pollenated pages from around the South (0)
09: Birthdays for Friday, April 9 (0)
08: ‘Yellow journalism’ today in Huntsville, Ala. (1)
08: Thursday’s Masters pages from the Augusta Chronicle (0)
08: Birthday for Thursday, April 8 (1)
07: Somebody call Mulder and Scully about the strange lights in the sky on page one (0)
07: Martin Gee moving to the Boston Globe (3)
07: A look at Wednesday’s Masters coverage in the Augusta Chronicle (0)
07: Chicago’s RedEye wraps itself in an ad today (3)
07: Birthdays for Wednesday, April 7 (1)
06: Tuesday Masters coverage from the Augusta Chronicle (0)
06: A look at NCAA basketball championship pages (1)
05: Join us for a VizEds chat Tuesday night on Twitter (19)
05: For your consideration… (0)
05: More on the passing of John Monahan (0)
05: Augusta Chronicle kicks off Masters week (0)
05: Birthday for Monday, April 5 (0)
04: St. Paul posts Peeps dioramas, videos (0)
04: For your consideration… (0)
04: NCAA Final Four front pages, compared (1)
04: Birthday for Sunday, April 4 (1)
03: Birthdays for Saturday, April 3 (0)
02: Indianapolis Star in hot water over Coach K illustration (38)
02: Fun, creative — and brilliant — A1 promos (2)
02: Ponderings on A1 ads, ‘advertorials’ and that sacred wall thing (4)
02: Help a journalist from Bhutan with a fellowship (0)
02: Birthdays for Friday, April 2 (0)
01: I really, really wanted one of these… (2)
01: Are there no comic book geeks at all on the staff of the NYT? (0)
01: California paper’s April Fool prank: Says it’ll shut down print edition (0)
01: World War II cartoonist honored with new stamp (1)
01: Behind today’s Google April Fools’ prank (0)
01: Newspaper company crowdsources its new corporate identity (4)
01: Also out of work these days… (1)
01: Birthday for Thursday, April 1 (0)

31: Raleigh News & Observer’s Judson Drennan moves to McClatchy Interactive (0)
31: Karl Gude, fashion model? (1)
31: Looking for a great April Fools prank to play on your friends at work? (0)
31: Birthdays for Wednesday, March 31 (0)
30: Winston-Salem covers the aftermath of Sunday’s tornadoes (1)
30: Why I love college students (4)
30: Birthdays for Tuesday, March 30 (0)
29: Geekazoid laugh for the day (0)
29: DeKalb, Ill., Daily Chronicle, moves to wider format (1)
29: Twitter might not be a great BROADCAST tool for me. But it’s a hell of a RESEARCH tool. (5)
29: Use a rival publisher’s mugshot in a story about feminine-looking men? Sure, Rupert Murdoch would. (1)
29: March Page One Madness: Rounding out the Final Four (1)
29: Birthdays for Monday, April 29 (0)
28: March Page One Madness, Elite Eight edition (0)
27: March Page One Madness, Sweet 16 Day Two (0)
27: Birthdays for Saturday, March 27 (0)
26: University of Iowa’s ‘Daily Iowan’ blows out Obama visit (1)
26: Did the Wall Street Journal go too far with Wednesday’s ‘cute’ text? (0)
26: March Page One Madness, Sweet 16 edition (6)
26: Birthdays for Friday, March 26 (0)
25: Houston Chronicle’s Alberto Cuadra moving to Washington Post (7)
25: Making a point with front-page bullet holes (2)
25: Extremely fast photomanipulation? There’s an app for that. (5)
25: Birthday for Thursday, March 25 (0)
24: For your consideration… (4)
24: Friends, colleagues remember the late John Monahan (10)
24: St. Paul Pioneer Press posts (second) promotional Peeps presentation (1)
24: Birthdays for Wednesday, March 24 (0)
23: Baltimore Sun’s Monty Cook moving to UNC (0)
23: Why it was OK for small dailies to NOT put health care on Monday’s A1 (3)
22: John Monahan — former graphics editor of GNS, AP — passes away (4)
22: NCAA Tournament page one madness, Round Two (2)
22: Birthdays for Monday, March 22 (0)
21: NCAA Tournament page one madness, Day Three (0)
21: Teaching today in D.C. (1)
20: NCAA Tournament page one madness, Day Two (0)
20: Birthdays for Saturday, March 20 (1)
19: First-round NCAA Tournament page one madness (3)
19: Wall Street Journal reveals all about stipple “headcuts” (0)
18: Best front page of the day: Detroit News (3)
18: Detroit News design director Cindy Jacobs departs for corporate digital team (0)
18: Birthdays for Thursday, March 18 (0)
17: Nicole Bogdas moves to Des Moines Register (9)
17: For your consideration… (16)
17: Another video on the future of publishing (1)
17: Swiss daily runs pictures of a naked fire victim (3)
17: Toledo Free Press launches second weekly edition (0)
17: Birthdays for Wednesday, March 17 (0)
16: Cartoonist Ted Rall on the future of newspapers (0)
16: Easily amused? (0)
16: Pioneer Press launches its annual Peeps diorama contest (0)
15: Illustrating the value of ’sunshine laws’ for your readers (1)
15: How newspapers played bracket Monday on A1 (2)
15: German newspaper billboard gives readers the finger (1)
15: An interview with yours truly (0)
15: Birthdays for Monday, March 15 (0)
13: Paul Wallen named design director of the Huntsville (Ala.) Times (4)
13: “Houston, we’ve had a problem… “ (2)
13: Birthdays for Saturday, March 13 (0)
12: BusinessWeek lays off all design, graphics and photo staffers (0)
12: What was that on the front of Thursday’s Wall Street Journal? (2)
11: Birthday for Thursday, March 11 (0)
10: Birthdays for Wednesday, March 10 (0)
09: The other shoe drops for Tribune’s Newport News, Va., paper (2)
08: A look at how papers covered the Oscars on A1 (4)
08: Birthdays for Monday, March 8 (0)
07: Virginia Judge, visuals editor of the (Rock Hill, S.C.) Herald passes away (1)
07: Birthdays for Sunday, March 7 (0)
06: The coolest music video you’ll ever see (1)
06: A quick word about the Oscars… (0)
06: Birthdays for Saturday, March 6 (0)
05: Headline fail (4)
05: L.A. Times wraps movie ad around A1 today (4)
05: Turning the world on its ear in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (0)
05: Birthday for Friday, March 5 (0)
04: Thursday was a day for large, unusual objects on A1 (0)
04: Death of print journalism may affect more folks that you think (0)
04: Guess who’s coming for dinner in Savannah? (1)
04: Meg Lavey gets married (2)
04: Cool flu chart from the Wall Street Journal (1)
04: Birthdays for Thursday, March 4 (0)
03: Gastonia, NC, needs help with a technical issue (6)
03: Football coach “proud” of team for snatching editons of college paper (4)
03: Youngstown, Ohio, Vindicator launches redesign (0)
03: Michigan State’s Karl Gude to have surgery today (0)
03: Birthdays for Wednesday, March 3 (0)
02: Topeka, Kansas, renames itself “Google” (0)
02: Photojournalist Peter Parker fired by New York Daily Bugle (1)
02: A roundup of Tuesday’s earthquake front pages from the U.S. and Latin America (0)
02: Epic locator map fail by TV news (0)
02: Celebrating the 106th birthday of Dr. Seuss (0)
02: Birthdays for Tuesday, March 2 (0)
01: Earthquake aftermath front pages from the U.S. and Latin America (0)
01: China Daily launches redesign (0)
01: An awesome, awesome end to the Winter Olympics (4)
01: Even T-shirt companies need copy editors (4)
01: Birthdays for Monday, March 1 (0)

February 2010

28: A rainbow of… power tools? (1)
28: How Western Hemisphere newspapers presented the Chilean earthquake on page one (3)
28: A look at Sunday’s Olympics front pages (1)
28: Birthdays for Sunday, Feb. 28 (0)
27: On today’s Olympic fronts: More speedskating, more hockey and — Oh, no! — more Ohno (0)
27: Birthdays for Saturday, Feb. 27 (0)
26: Friday’s front pages show celebrating hockey players and disbelieving skaters (0)
26: Birthday for Friday, Feb. 26 (1)
25: Invasion of the joyous hockey front pages (1)
25: Birthdays for Thursday, Feb. 25 (1)
24: Meet Tim Harrower, rock n’ roll god (1)
24: Wednesday’s Olympic fronts feature mortices, poor cropping and disconnects between headlines and photos (2)
24: Birthday for Wednesday, Feb. 24 (0)
23: An apology to the Lewiston Sun Journal (2)
23: Tuesday’s Olympic fronts full of ice dancers (0)
22: The best obit headline you’ll ever see (1)
22: Hockey, hockey and more Olympic hockey on today’s front pages (2)
22: Birthdays for Monday, Feb. 22 (0)
21: For those of you craving Olympic music (2)
21: Best Olympic front page today is by… a 4,000-circulation paper? (0)
21: Sports page winners of the international NewspaperDesigning contest (0)
21: Birthdays for Sunday, Feb. 21 (0)
20: A look at the Virginian-Pilot’s Olympics coverage (0)
20: A look at Saturday’s Olympic fronts (0)
20: Wasting away again with a Margaritaville features presentation (1)
20: Center spread winners of the international NewspaperDesigning contest (0)
20: Birthdays for Saturday, Feb. 20 (1)
19: Using Photoshop to make cookies (0)
19: The public has spoken (0)
19: A look at Friday’s Olympics front pages (0)
19: How newspapers covered the plane crash in Austin, Texas (0)
19: A look at the Toronto Globe & Mail’s Olympic special sections (1)
19: Features page winners of the international NewspaperDesigning contest (0)
19: Birthday for Friday, Feb. 19 (0)
18: An obtrusive movie promo on the front of a free Dutch tab (0)
18: Wilmington, N.C., Star lays off veteran photo editor (2)
18: How to NOT sell newspapers (6)
18: Separated at birth? (0)
18: A big day for U.S. Olympians on page one (0)
18: Infographics winners of the international NewspaperDesigning contest (1)
17: An amazing sameness to Canadian front pages today (0)
17: Front page winners of the international NewspaperDesigning contest (2)
17: Birthdays for Wednesday, Feb. 17 (0)
16: Tuesday’s Olympics pages are a huge improvement (2)
16: Revisiting that Topeka bar chart from Monday (1)
16: Birthday for Tuesday, Feb. 16 (0)
15: Detroit’s Steve Dorsey promoted to Vice President for Detroit Media (2)
15: Disappointed with Vancouver Sun’s A1 Olympics coverage (5)
15: Here’s the best Haiti photo I’ve seen yet (0)
15: Birthday for Monday, Feb. 15 (0)
14: Page one coverage of Day Two of the Olympics (4)
14: Pick up the Sunday paper to find… animal sex? (1)
14: A headline that should probably be rethought (4)
14: Birthdays for Sunday, Feb. 14 (0)
13: How Canadian papers played opening ceremonies on A1 (0)
13: On front pages today: Amazing grace and angels in the snow (0)
13: Did we REALLY need to put the luge accident on A1 today? (1)
13: In case you’ve ever wondered… (0)
13: Birthdays for Saturday, Feb. 13 (0)
12: Two Vancouver papers run HUGE A1 ad on Olympic opening day (2)
12: A wonderful collection of Olympics covers (2)
12: Virginia Tech student paper faces loss of funding (0)
12: Daytona Beach apologizes for A1 error (0)
12: An eloquent argument for newspapers… oh, wait. (0)
12: Birthday for Friday, Feb. 12 (0)
11: Birthday for Thursday, Feb. 11 (0)
10: Learning proper snow etiquette in Youngstown, Ohio (1)
10: When dumbasses webcast (1)
10: Birthdays for Wednesday, Feb. 10 (0)
09: For your consideration… (3)
09: Virginian-Pilot runs page-one apology for Super Bowl snafu (1)
09: Birthdays for Tuesday, Feb. 9 (0)
08: How papers played the Super Bowl on A1 (4)
07: Separated at birth? (1)
07: Front-page coverage of this weekend’s snow storm (1)
07: Birthday for Sunday, Feb. 7 (0)
06: Covering a school shooting in Huntsville, Ala. (0)
06: Birthday for Saturday, Feb. 6 (0)
05: Looking for a photo of this latest storm? (0)
05: Iranian newspaper to change controversial logo (0)
05: Indy Star going all-out on Super Bowl special sections (1)
05: Birthdays for Friday, Feb. 5 (0)
04: One out of four bail on newspaper video ads (1)
04: In ‘new media’, does credibility even matter anymore? (4)
04: Colts special section cover by Stephen Beard (3)
04: Graphic design? There’s an app for that. (0)
04: Birthday for Thursday, Feb. 4 (0)
03: What happens when you throw spaghetti on your front page design wall? (1)
03: Some amazing retro automotive pictures (5)
03: Birthdays for Wednesday, Feb. 3 (5)
02: Soon to come: One-stop shopping for liquor and news (2)
02: Does this two-day-old lede photo bother you? (11)
02: Illustrator Nick Dewar passes at age 37 (1)
02: Birthdays for Tuesday, Feb. 2 (1)
01: Now, THAT’s how you do cheesecake on page one (1)
01: Birthdays for Monday, Feb. 1 (0)

January 2010

31: On Sunday page ones: Snow pictures, illustrations and pie charts. (2)
31: Birthday for Sunday, Jan. 31 (2)
30: Want to make a LOT of money? (0)
30: Birthdays for Saturday, Jan. 30 (0)
29: The final word on the iPad… (0)
29: Steve Buttry to leave Iowa — again — for D.C. news startup (2)
29: Minneapolis Star-Tribune copy desk reportedly slashed 60 percent (1)
29: It’s a “What the hell?” Friday on front pages everywhere (0)
29: Birthdays for Friday, Jan. 29 (0)
28: Thursday front pages show iPod hype done right — for the most part (0)
28: Birthdays for Thursday, Jan. 28 (0)
27: Wednesday’s front pages reflect the good, bad and the — My eyes! My eyes! (2)
27: iEnough iAlready with the iHype (1)
27: Birthdays for Wednesday, Jan. 27 (0)
26: New Orleans papers sell like crazy after Saints win (1)
26: Overheard in the newsroom (1)
26: Don’t just sit there during the State of the Union address. Play ‘Presidential Bingo.’ (4)
26: Papers are neglecting mobile versions of their stories (1)
26: Birthdays for Tuesday, Jan. 26 (0)
25: A brilliant cartoon solution for Fargo, N.D. (1)
25: Univ. of Florida student paper apologizes for Haiti cartoon (2)
25: How newspapers played NFL conference championship games on A1 (3)
25: Birthdays for Monday, Jan. 25 (1)
24: Birthdays for Sunday, Jan. 24 (0)
23: Newsweek takes a look at fashion magazine photoshopping (0)
23: Birthdays for Saturday, Jan. 23 (0)
22: Kudos to Huntsville, Ala., for an awesome A1 photo today (5)
22: Behind USA Today’s cool interactive Haiti maps (0)
22: Here tabloid of New Brunswick, Canada, redesigns (2)
22: A bold new revenue stream: Letters to the Editor? (1)
22: Birthday for Friday, Jan. 22 (0)
21: NYT pay model will exempt tweeted stories (1)
21: When you have no art for your centerpiece (4)
21: And, speaking of corrections… (2)
21: It’s sad when you screw up a hed above the fold on A1 (4)
21: Birthdays for Thursday, Jan. 21 (0)
20: Coverage of the Massachusetts special election (0)
20: A sign of the times? (0)
20: Birthdays for Wednesday, Jan. 20 (1)
19: A fun bookstore find: Collected NY Post headlines (0)
19: Birthdays for Tuesday, Jan. 19 (0)
18: Ball State’s Kyle Ellis moving to New York Post (2)
17: Behind the art of European propaganda posters (0)
17: Birthdays for Sunday, Jan. 17 (0)
16: Birthdays for Saturday, Jan. 16 (0)
15: Francie Williamson moving from Quad-City to Cedar Rapids, Iowa (2)
15: Day three Haiti coverage dominated by photos of bodies (1)
15: A plea for help in Haiti (0)
15: Birthdays for Friday, Jan. 15 (0)
14: Haiti earthquake Day Two: Now, that’s more like it (5)
14: Birthdays for Thursday, Jan. 14 (0)
13: Why no earthquake fronts today? (9)
13: Content trumps technology, every time (2)
13: An idea from Martin Gee: Sketch a day’s worth of tweets and status updates (5)
13: Birthdays for Wednesday, Jan. 13 (0)
12: 90-year-old Canadian magazine gives in, changes its name (0)
12: Jim Hopkins returns with his Gannett Blog (1)
12: How the St.Louis Post-Dispatch covered the Mark McGwire steroid confessional (2)
12: Apparently, I’ve been busy! (2)
12: Birthdays for Tuesday, Jan. 12 (0)
11: Eight minutes with caricaturist Mort Drucker (2)
11: New-and-improved SND.org launches today (4)
11: Birthdays for Monday, Jan. 11 (0)
10: A rock ‘em, sock ‘em political page (1)
10: 36 corrections — count ‘em, 36 — in today’s NYT (0)
10: Birthdays for Sunday, Jan. 10 (1)
09: Birthday for Saturday, Jan. 9 (0)
08: Indy Star’s Joey Marburger moving to Gannett corporate (0)
08: A metaphor for the industry? (0)
08: Bill Gaspard leaving Las Vegas; moving to China (4)
08: Another news design contest you can enter (0)
08: What’s William Couch been up to lately? (0)
08: New nightly LAT deadline: 6 p.m., reportedly (2)
08: Al Gore has become a type geek (1)
08: Birthdays for Friday, Jan. 8 (0)
07: For your consideration… (10)
07: A celebration of the painfully obvious (1)
07: Getty strongarmed by NBA… for a while, at least (0)
07: Yet another professional sports logo was designed by a newspaper artist (3)
06: About the graphics categories in this year’s SND contest… (21)
06: Former Atlanta news artist featured in art show (0)
06: Kudos to the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal for transparency (0)
06: Birthdays for Wednesday, Jan. 6 (0)
04: Birthdays for Monday, Jan. 4 (0)
03: Birthday for Sunday, Jan. 3 (0)
01: Our favorite New Year’s Day pages (0)
01: Birthdays for Friday, Jan. 1 (1)

December 2009

31: Washington Times lays off sports, photo departments (3)
31: How to spend your post-Christmas dollars (1)
31: Birthday for Thursday, Dec. 31 (0)
30: So how’s the drive around the world going? (3)
30: Birthday for Wednesday, Dec. 30 (0)
29: Hot off the Tiger Woods trail, TMZ falls for Kennedy photo hoax (2)
29: SND begins revamp of its web operations (1)
29: Atlanta’s Kenny Monteith to leave newspapers (0)
29: Birthdays for Tuesday, Dec. 29 (2)
28: Birthdays for Monday, Dec. 28 (0)
27: Birthdays for Sunday, Dec. 27 (1)
26: Birthdays for Saturday, Dec. 26 (0)
25: A merry look at some Christmas Day front pages (0)
25: Merry Christmas to one and all (0)
25: Birthday for Friday, Dec. 25 (1)
24: The most interesting item I’ve seen this shopping season… (0)
24: Birthdays for Thursday, Dec. 24 (0)
23: Former news artist John Telford takes on giant 500-lb. Microsoft gorilla (3)
23: Birthday for Wednesday, Dec. 23 (0)
22: Birthdays for Tuesday, Dec. 22 (0)
21: Yet again, my boot heels are wandering (1)
21: Birthdays for Monday, Dec. 21 (0)
20: Birthdays for Sunday, Dec. 20 (1)
19: My 2009 college bowl guide free-lance project (3)
19: Birthday for Saturday, Dec. 19 (0)
18: Len De Groot leaving Ft. Lauderdale for Knight Foundation, Cal Berkeley (7)
18: Birthdays for Friday, Dec. 18 (0)
17: Birthdays for Thursday, Dec. 17 (0)
15: SND runs a membership special (0)
15: Birthdays for Tuesday, Dec. 15 (0)
14: Birthdays for Monday, Dec. 14 (0)
13: A report from Saturday’s North Carolina meetup (1)
13: Birthday for Sunday, Dec. 13 (1)
11: ‘Invictus’ movie opens today (1)
11: Birthdays for Friday, Dec. 11 (0)
10: There are no pages like snow pages (0)
10: Editor & Publisher to shut down (1)
10: Birthday for Thursday, Dec. 10 (1)
09: Coverage of the police memorial in Washington state (1)
09: Birthday for Wednesday, Dec. 9 (1)
08: A lush experiment in stretching the newspaper envelope (0)
08: Birthdays for Tuesday, Dec. 8 (0)
07: 56 papers, 1 editorial (0)
06: Stop the presses! (0)
02: Don’t forget the free meetup in Hickory, N.C., Saturday, Dec. 12 (2)
02: Express of Washington, D.C., redesigns (4)
02: Birthdays for Wednesday, Dec. 2 (0)
01: Nearly home. Almost, but not quite… (1)
01: Birthday for Tuesday, Dec. 1 (1)

November 2009

30: Finally heading for home, after 62 days in South Africa (0)
30: Birthdays for Monday, Nov. 30 (0)
29: For your consideration… (1)
29: How I know I’ve been in South Africa too long (1)
29: Birthdays for Sunday, Nov. 29 (0)
28: An abbreviated visit to Melrose Arch (0)
28: Stop the presses! (1)
28: Birthdays for Saturday, Nov. 28 (0)
27: A look at a few Thanksgiving front pages (0)
27: Birthdays for Friday, Nov. 27 (0)
26: A hand in the elevator is worth two in the… (2)
26: Birthday for Thursday, Nov. 26 (0)
25: A look at the skyline of Johannesburg’s north side (1)
25: Birthdays for Wednesday, Nov. 25 (0)
24: USA Today joins forces with… Fark? (1)
24: An unfortunate juxtaposition for the AP? (0)
23: A weekend shopping in Pretoria and Rosebank (0)
23: Star Ledger of Newark, N.J., redesigns (0)
23: Poynter publishes book collecting Kennedy front pages (0)
23: Birthday for Monday, Nov. 23 (0)
22: Birthday for Sunday, Nov. 22 (0)
22: Free SND meeetup Dec. 12 in Hickory, N.C. (4)
21: German e-magazine launch is a lesson in proactivity for news designers (2)
21: Birthday for Saturday, Nov. 21 (0)
20: A cold, rainy week in Johannesburg (1)
20: Behind those giant dots on the front of Thursday’s Everett (Wash.) Herald (0)
20: Victoria (Texas) Advocate’s New Moon presentation (0)
20: Birthdays for Friday, Nov. 20 (1)
19: Birthday for Thursday, Nov. 19 (0)
18: In case you missed it… (0)
18: How NOT to use Twitter (4)
18: Birthday for Wednesday, Nov. 18 (0)
17: Wall Street Journal-Europe launches redesign (1)
17: Syracuse newspaper launches quarterly sports magazine (0)
17: India’s Kerala Kaumudi redesigns (0)
17: Birthday for Tuesday, Nov. 17 (1)
16: A Saturday drive down the coast and up Chapman’s Peak (0)
16: Birthday for Monday, Nov. 16 (0)
15: Birthdays for Sunday, Nov. 15 (0)
14: Birthday for Saturday, Nov. 14 (0)
13: A week in Cape Town, South Africa (3)
13: For your consideration… (1)
13: Birthdays for Friday, Nov. 13 (0)
12: Birthdays for Thursday, Nov. 12 (1)
11: Birthdays for Wednesday, Nov. 11 (2)
10: Meet Hout Bay’s famous Soap Girls (1)
09: Birthdays for Monday, Nov. 9 (0)
08: A VERY rough trip from Johannesburg to Cape Town (6)
08: Birthdays for Sunday, Nov. 8 (0)
07: Breakfast in Johannesburg with Poynter’s Kenny Irby (1)
07: Birthdays for Saturday, Nov. 7 (0)
06: Birthday for Friday, Nov. 6 (1)
05: A typical day in Johannesburg (7)
05: San Francisco Chronicle to upgrade print quality (2)
05: Birthdays for Thursday, Nov. 5 (0)
04: More World Series tabloid covers (1)
04: Birthday for Wednesday, Nov. 4 (1)
03: SND names new executive director: Orlando Sentinel’s Stephen Komives (0)
03: Ernie Smith’s ShortFormBlog tweaks design (3)
03: Exhibit of work by J. Ford Huffman opening in D.C. (0)
03: Beware using official mug shots from the Cleveland Browns (2)
03: Birthday for Tuesday, Nov. 3 (0)
02: Currie Cup Rugby with the Sunday newspaper in Johannesburg (2)
01: Lament of the long-form journalist (5)

October 2009

31: It’s ‘Super Bowl Saturday’ here in South Africa (1)
31: A few more Halloween treatments (0)
31: Birthdays for Saturday, Oct. 31 (0)
30: Victoria (Texas) Advocate’s latest Halloween effort is a musical video (1)
30: Rumor: Media General eliminating copy editors, designers (0)
30: Birthdays for Friday, Oct. 30 (0)
29: Huntsville’s coverage of the launch of the Ares rocket (2)
29: A look at some fun Halloween-themed pages (1)
29: This year’s World Series is tabloid heaven (0)
29: I enjoy sleeping with Carnie Wilson (3)
29: Birthdays for Thursday, Oct. 29 (0)
28: Birthday for Wednesday, Oct. 28 (2)
27: For your consideration… (2)
27: Touring Johannesburg’s Apartheid Museum (2)
27: The nation’s largest circulation gain: York, Pa., Daily Record (0)
27: Birthdays for Tuesday, Oct. 27 (0)
26: A Sunday trip to a local flea market (0)
26: AP art director Nicolas Rapp stepping down to drive around the world (2)
26: Boston Globe seeks summer interns (0)
26: Birthdays for Monday, Oct. 26 (0)
25: Birthdays for Sunday, Oct. 25 (0)
24: A successful relaunch of the weekend paper in South Africa (5)
24: Birthday for Saturday, Oct. 24 (0)
23: Come hail or high water (1)
23: We need more devoted readers like this… (0)
23: Birthday for Friday, Oct. 23 (0)
22: Julie Elman on the art of the resume (5)
22: Birthday for Thursday, Oct. 22 (0)
20: A tribute to a fallen colleague (0)
20: Birthdays for Tuesday, Oct. 20 (0)
19: First look: Redesign of the Washington Post (7)
19: Birthday for Monday, Oct. 19 (0)
18: A Saturday trip to Sun City (5)
18: Birthdays for Sunday, Oct. 18 (0)
17: Birthday for Saturday, Oct. 17 (0)
16: Friday’s coverage of the ‘balloon boy’ (0)
16: Send us your cool Halloween pages (0)
15: Gainesville, Ga., Times knows how to blow out a big local story (0)
15: Tim Ball to join the Washington Post (1)
15: Birthday for Thursday, Oct. 15 (0)
14: A big page-one package for the Johannesburg paper (3)
14: Bryan Monroe named visiting professor at Northwestern (0)
14: Birthday for Wednesday, Oct. 14 (0)
13: Birthday for Tuesday, Oct. 13 (0)
12: A couple of requests (0)
12: A week in Johannesburg (0)
12: Birthday for Monday, Oct. 12 (0)
11: Birthday for Sunday, Oct. 11 (0)
10: Birthday for Saturday, Oct. 10 (0)
09: Yet another obtrusive ad (3)
09: Birthdays for Friday, Oct. 9 (2)
08: The most obtrusive advertisement yet? (8)
08: Birthday for Thursday, Oct. 8 (0)
06: Wilmington’s Daniel Hunt moving to Orange County Register (2)
06: Birthdays for Tuesday, Oct. 6 (0)
05: Duluth, Minn., News Tribune prints dual front pages (3)
05: Times of India sells full-front-page ad to Yahoo (3)
05: Portugal’s i hailed as newspaper of the future (2)
05: No museum trip for me on Sunday (0)
05: Birthday for Monday, Oct. 5 (0)
04: Birthdays for Sunday, Oct. 4 (0)
03: Taking it easy on my first Saturday in Johannesburg (0)
03: They rented me a Mercedes! (3)
03: Birthdays for Saturday, Oct. 3 (0)
02: Paul Wallen leaving newspapers… to become a foster parent (5)
02: Birthday for Friday, Oct. 2 (0)
01: The story behind Huntsville’s pink paper (3)
01: Reporting live from Johannesburg, South Africa (2)
01: ‘Family Guy’ takes on Washington Post’s Tom Toles (1)
01: Birthday for Thursday, Oct. 1 (0)

September 2009

30: Birthdays for Wednesday, Sept. 30 (0)
29: Heading back to South Africa today (4)
29: More about ads on Twitter: Here’s how to use them well (4)
29: Going retro in Omaha (0)
29: Birthdays for Tuesday, Sept. 29 (1)
28: Finding a way to push ads onto Twitter (2)
28: Birthday for Monday, Sept. 28 (1)
27: Newspaper industry troubles compared to those of porn industry (0)
27: Birthdays for Sunday, Sept. 27 (0)
26: Calling all science nerds (3)
26: Birthdays for Saturday, Sept. 26 (0)
25: A huge football game in South Carolina (1)
25: A look at the redesign of Salt Lake’s In This Week tab (1)
25: End of an era: Grafix company discontinues Duoshade (2)
24: Lexington Herald-Leader lays off copy desk chief (0)
24: Detroit papers produce collectible baseball cards (3)
24: Birthday for Thursday, Sept. 24 (0)
23: A look at coverage of the flooding around Atlanta (7)
23: Birthdays for Wednesday, Sept. 23 (0)
22: A fun newspaper TV promo (0)
22: Birthday for Tuesday, Sept. 22 (0)
21: A 20th anniversary look back on Hurricane Hugo (4)
21: Building a graphic slideshow in San Antonio (2)
18: Birthday for Friday, Sept. 18 (0)
17: A burger and fries with Bob and Miranda (3)
17: Newsweek alters photo… by cropping it? (9)
17: The coolest thing I’ve seen in a long, long while… (2)
17: Birthdays for Thursday, Sept. 17 (0)
16: Birthdays for Wednesday, Sept. 16 (1)
16: Beacon-News of Aurora, Ill., redesigns as a tab (0)
16: A look at last week’s redesign of the Naples, Fla., Daily News (3)
16: ‘When Poorly Designed Pages Make Your Clips Look Bad’ (0)
15: A sign of the times? (0)
15: San Francisco Chronicle’s Sporting Green is green again (5)
15: Metro tabs in Boston, Philly and NYC launch redesign (0)
14: Winston-Salem, N.C. Journal launches redesign (2)
14: Birthdays for Monday, Sept. 14 (1)
13: Back home again in Virginia Beach (7)
13: Birthdays for Sunday, Sept. 13 (0)
12: I’m on my way back to the United States (6)
12: Birthday for Saturday, Sept. 12 (0)
11: My last day in Cape Town (2)
11: Birthdays for Friday, Sept. 11 (2)
10: Teaching advertising and marketing artists in Cape Town (2)
10: If you want to vote in the SND elections, renew by Friday (0)
09: Birthdays for Wednesday, Sept. 9 (1)
08: A Sunday morning visit to Robben Island prison (3)
08: Birthdays for Tuesday, Sept. 8 (0)
07: A beautiful sunset over Signal Hill (0)
07: Birthdays for Monday, Sept. 7 (0)
07: Preparing for a week of advertising classes (2)
06: A very interesting Saturday bus tour of Cape Town (2)
05: Looking forward to enjoying the weekend in Cape Town (2)
05: Birthday for Saturday, Sept. 5 (0)
04: Hartford Courant’s Melanie Shaffer loses battle with cancer (0)
04: The end of our second week in Cape Town (0)
04: Birthday for Friday, Sept. 4 (0)
03: Giant infographics in print and a night on the town in Cape Town (0)
02: Making some real progress in our class work (0)
02: Birthdays for Thursday, Sept. 3 (0)
01: The Cape Doctor has arrived (2)
01: A cute little idea… With an emphasis on ‘little.’ (4)
01: Birthdays for Wednesday, Sept. 2 (0)

August 2009

31: A Sunday visit to Cape Town’s Table Mountain (0)
31: Birthdays for Monday, Aug. 31 (0)
30: A Saturday trip down the peninsula to the Cape of Good Hope (3)
30: Birthdays for Sunday, Aug. 30 (0)
30: Birthday for Saturday, Aug. 29 (0)
29: Ending Week One on a high note (0)
28: A look at the Boston Globe’s Ted Kennedy memorial section (0)
28: Thursday night on the Cape Town waterfront (10)
28: Disguise your laptop as a newspaper (1)
28: Birthday for Friday, Aug. 28 (0)
27: Dealing with differences in the little things. Like electricity, money and Diet Coke. (1)
27: How do you feel about THIS giant A1 ad? (1)
27: Birthdays for Thursday, Aug. 27 (0)
26: A tour of my home for this week and next, the Westin Grand (1)
26: Beaver County’s Diane Lewin moving to Roanoke, Va. (0)
26: Birthday for Wednesday, Aug. 26 (0)
25: No problem at all adjusting to the time difference. Here’s why. (3)
25: Wachsberger hired as temporary sports designer for Washington Post (2)
25: Birthdays for Tuesday, Aug. 25 (1)
24: Birthdays for Monday, Aug. 24 (0)
24: Good morning, South Africa (1)
23: Safe and sound in Cape Town, South Africa (6)
22: Hello again from Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C…. (2)
22: I’m on my way to South Africa, but I’ve only made it as far as the airport bar (3)
22: An interview with the designer of the Apple computer logo (0)
22: Birthdays for Saturday, Aug. 22 (0)
21: The late, great Merc design desk (0)
21: Print subscribers are worth HOW much more? (0)
21: Birthday for Friday, Aug. 21 (0)
20: A few ideas for punching up your high school football coverage (1)
20: Birthdays for Thursday, Aug. 20 (0)
19: My next training expedition: Cape Town, South Africa (12)
19: Birthdays for Wednesday, Aug. 19 (2)
18: Palo Alto, Calif., Daily News switches from tab to broadsheet (0)
18: A smattering of Tuesday fronts (0)
18: Muncie Star Press publishing Monday ‘Good News’ section (1)
18: Birthdays for Tuesday, Aug. 18 (0)
17: Bakersfield, Calif., relaunches as a tabloid (7)
17: Stray notes for a muggy Monday (8)
17: Birthdays for Monday, Aug. 17 (0)
16: A look at a few weekend Woodstock front pages (3)
16: Birthdays for Sunday, Aug. 16 (0)
15: Birthday for Saturday, Aug. 15 (2)
14: Birthday for Friday, Aug. 14 (0)
13: A short Q&A with SND presidential write-in candidate Kris Viesselman (8)
13: Birthdays for Thursday, Aug. 13 (0)
12: Birthdays for Wednesday, Aug. 12 (1)
11: Tuesday highlights: High school football, death panels and a cappella music (2)
11: Birthdays for Tuesday, Aug. 11 (0)
10: Paging Doctor Dolittle… (0)
10: Birthday for Monday, Aug. 10 (0)
10: Yes, that’s Karl Gude and family on page one of today’s NYT (4)
08: A look at a few Saturday pages (0)
08: Birthday for Saturday, Aug. 8 (0)
07: Australia’s The Age looks back on a horrific fire (0)
07: Calling occupants of interplanetary craft (1)
07: Birthdays for Friday, Aug. 7 (0)
06: I need your help with a rush article for SND/Design magazine (4)
06: The theme for today’s front pages: Cute kids (4)
06: Do you have any cool Woodstock anniversary pages planned? (1)
06: Birthdays for Thursday, Aug. 6 (0)
05: Getcher fake birth certificates here… (1)
05: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel lays off 34 from its newsroom (1)
05: Awesome photos… and one, perhaps, we wish we hadn’t seen (0)
05: Bakersfield Californian to go tabloid five days a week (1)
05: What is it lately with the New York Times? (2)
05: Birthdays for Wednesday, Aug. 5 (0)
04: Dazzling readers today with cool infographics (0)
04: Washington Post names lead section designers, makes other appointments (0)
04: Birthday for Tuesday, Aug. 4 (1)
03: New Waco, Texas, owner makes an addition to page one (3)
03: A quick spin through the day’s front pages (0)
03: Bridget O’Donnell moving to China for a year (1)
03: Birthday for Monday, Aug. 3 (0)
02: More about that error-ridden NYT Cronkite obit (5)
02: A study in contrasts (0)
02: Birthdays for Sunday, Aug. 2 (1)
01: Graphing weather extremes on page one (3)
01: Birthdays for Saturday, Aug. 1 (0)

31: An experiment tonight in San Antonio (3)
31: Yet another Photoshop scandal? Maybe, maybe not… (14)
31: In addition to odd-shaped ads on page one, let’s try this… (0)
30: Yet another “creative” ad shape invades page one (2)
30: A look at the interesting typography of Sarasota’s house flipping series (5)
29: iStockphoto: A designer’s best friend or biggest threat to her job? (7)
29: Today’s front pages mostly about… nothing. (4)
29: Birthdays for Wednesday, July 29 (0)
28: Is this cartoon offensive? (0)
28: Birthdays for Tuesday, July 28 (0)
27: The Indianapolis Star’s coverage of Sunday’s NASCAR race (0)
27: Getting maximum impact from photos on page one (6)
27: Birthdays for Monday, July 27 (0)
26: Copy editor John McIntyre on NPR’s On the Media (1)
26: Birthdays for Sunday, July 26 (0)
25: It’s 1970s celebrity day on page one (0)
25: Birthdays for Saturday, July 25 (0)
24: Perfect game, perfect pages (4)
24: Gimme some skin, man… (1)
24: Birthday for Friday, July 24 (0)
23: Nicole Bogdas named news editor of Herald-Zeitung, New Braunfels, Texas (17)
23: Passing the ‘breakfast test’ (1)
22: SEVEN errors in one obit? Made by WHAT paper? (7)
22: A study in contrasts: The Roethlisberger story today in Pittsburgh (0)
22: Virginian-Pilot to lose Ryan Healy, Brandon Stuck (0)
22: Week three of Superman is posted at USA Today (0)
22: Birthdays for Wednesday, July 22 (1)
21: Birthday for Tuesday, July 21 (0)
20: Monday’s Apollo anniversary pages (1)
20: Birthday for Monday, July 20 (0)
19: Sunday’s Apollo 11 tribute pages (4)
19: Birthdays for Sunday, July 19 (2)
18: A glance at a few Saturday pages (0)
18: Talk about your public relations nightmare… (2)
18: Birthdays for Saturday, July 18 (0)
17: Friday’s Apollo tribute pages (0)
17: Waterbury’s Scott Griffin to open up a fried chicken stand. Seriously. (4)
17: Victoria (Texas) Advocate goes all-out for a Harry Potter-themed entertainment section (3)
17: Saturday SND meetup in San Francisco to be webcast live (0)
17: Birthdays for Friday, July 17 (3)
16: Thursday’s Apollo 11 anniversary tributes (0)
16: ESRI to discontinue MapStudio mapping software (1)
16: Birthdays for Thursday, July 16 (0)
15: Keep an eye out for more Apollo 11 tributes (1)
15: When infographics get political (6)
15: Don’t forget installment No. 2 of Superman this week at USA Today web site (0)
15: Ready for some good news? Experts seem optimistic about return of newspaper advertising (3)
15: The Post-Dispatch’s coverage of the All-Star Game (5)
15: Birthdays for Wednesday, July 15 (0)
14: Tuesday afternoon humor from Slate (2)
14: Birthdays for Tuesday, July 14 (0)
13: Daily Post-Athenian of Athens, Tenn., redesigns (1)
13: Birthdays for Monday, July 13 (0)
12: A look at a few Apollo 11 anniversary pages (8)
11: A sign of the times? (0)
11: Hindustan Times launches redesign (0)
11: Birthday for Saturday, July 11 (0)
10: Laid off in Rochester: copy desk chief Jann Nyffeler (0)
10: For your consideration… (1)
10: A quick tip o’ the hat to Jim Hopkins of the Gannett Blog (0)
10: Birthday for Friday, July 10 (1)
09: Gannett laying off at least a thousand this week (1)
09: A headline you won’t believe (4)
09: Trinity Journal — a Northern California weekly — launches redesign (0)
09: Birthday for Thursday, July 9 (1)
08: Huge Superman strip appears in today’s USA Today (1)
08: NYT pulls photo essay after one picture appears to have major Photoshop work (4)
08: Kennebec Journal photog saves man after fall over dam (0)
08: Birthdays for Wednesday, July 8 (0)
07: ‘The Printed Blog’ experimental newspaper closes (0)
07: Anniston (Ala.) Star wraps its paper in a) mug shots, b) an idea ‘borrowed’ from a competitor (2)
07: L.A. Times downsizes its weather map (5)
07: Birthdays for Tuesday, July 7 (0)
06: Something new for your blogger (9)
06: Birthday for Monday, July 6 (1)
04: A look at Saturday’s July 4 pages (2)
04: Fresno Bee launches redesign (4)
04: Birthdays for Saturday, July 4 (0)
03: A selection of Friday fronts (1)
03: Tampa Bay Times wraps A1 with an ad (0)
03: Charlotte Observer uberdesigner Luke Trautwein leaving newspapers (4)
03: Birthdays for Friday, July 3 (0)
02: What’s that peeking out from behind all the ads today: The Virginian-Pilot? (8)
02: India’s Navhind Times launches redesign (0)
02: Online news guru Rob Curley lovin’ it in Vegas (0)
02: Birthdays for Thursday, July 2 (1)
01: Michael Jackson through the years in the WSJ… in stipple (0)
01: Nevada’s Michael Higdon now working as an ad designer (0)
01: Birthday for Wednesday, July 1 (0)

30: Nine Pioneer Press layoffs include five copy editors, two designers (3)
30: Cayman Islands Compass launches redesign (0)
30: A really cool ‘Public Enemies’ movie treatment by Oshkosh, Wis. (3)
30: Birthday for Tuesday, June 30 (0)
29: Madison, Ind., Courier launches redesign (0)
29: Hartford Courant reverts to more conventional A1 look (10)
29: A look at Friday’s Michael Jackson front pages (7)
29: For your consideration… (1)
29: Birthday for Monday, June 29 (0)
28: Birthday for Sunday, June 28 (0)
27: For your consideration… (0)
27: Birthdays for Saturday, June 27 (0)
26: Our Friday presentation in Williamsport, Pa. (0)
26: Our Thursday presentation in Pittsburgh, Pa. (0)
26: ‘It’s a bird… it’s a plane…’ USA Today to help launch Superman comic (1)
26: The art of hyperbole is alive and well in ‘the state of Jefferson’ (0)
26: Birthdays for Friday, June 26 (0)
26: Daily Record of York, Pa., launches redesign (0)
25: Darren Sanefski takes buyout from Syracuse Post-Standard (4)
25: On the road in western Pennsylvania (1)
25: Thanks, Google! Weekly World News archive now available online (0)
25: Birthdays for Thursday, June 25 (0)
24: Marty Westman reportedly among 22 laid off by Freep (1)
24: Herald of Rock Hill, S.C., asks readers to vote for July 4 front page design (0)
24: Wrapping an ad around content? *Shudder* (2)
24: Birthdays for Wednesday, June 24 (0)
23: Coverage of the metro train accident in D.C. (6)
23: Cleveland’s Plain Dealer launches redesign (0)
23: Five inches on the local front of the Virginian-Pilot (2)
23: Last call for training in Pennsylvania this week (0)
23: Birthdays for Tuesday, June 23 (0)
22: Hartford Courant polls readers on page one format (8)
22: The BIG question for SND: How do we stop companies from thinking of us as ‘production’? (14)
22: Birthdays for Monday, June 22 (0)
21: Birthdays for Sunday, June 21 (0)
20: For your weekend viewing pleasure… (1)
20: Birthdays for Saturday, June 20 (0)
19: It’s not too late to catch our presentations next week in Pennsylvania (0)
18: Birthdays for Thursday, June 18 (0)
17: So what REALLY happened with SND? (33)
17: A belated report of my trip to Columbia, S.C. (3)
17: Birthdays for Wednesday, June 17 (2)
16: Birthdays for Tuesday, June 16 (0)
15: SND to live-chat about sudden leadership change (2)
14: Birthdays for Sunday, June 14 (1)
12: Birthdays for Friday, June 12 (0)
11: What happens when you use images from a Google search (2)
11: On the road in Columbia, S.C. (1)
11: Birthdays for Thursday, June 11 (1)
10: Boston Globe cartoonist responds to salary cut… in print today (1)
10: Book designer Chip Kidd to write Batman comic book (1)
09: New (competing) paper proposed in Detroit to fill home-delivery gap (0)
09: A look at the London Evening Standard redesign (0)
08: It’s not too late to join us for some training in Columbia, S.C. Thursday (2)
07: So this is what it’s come to, for Newsweek… (1)
07: Birthday for Sunday, June 7 (0)
06: NYT’s Steve Wolgast becomes new Kansas State instructor, student paper adviser (3)
06: Birthday for Saturday, June 6 (0)
05: How Polish papers celebrated the 20th anniversary of Solidarity (1)
05: Birthday for Friday, June 5 (0)
04: Time magazine: “Twitter will change the world” (3)
04: Jacksonville’s ‘freakin’ force,’ Anna Berken, leaves journalism for web design firm (1)
04: Washington Post pursing print+online+storyform+reader input experiment (0)
04: The story behind the famous Tiananmen Square tank photo (0)
04: Birthdays for Thursday, June 4 (2)
03: Coming soon to western, northern Pennsylvania: Visual journalism sessions for small newspapers (1)
03: Birthdays for Wednesday, June 3 (0)
02: Guild votes in favor of new contract for San Jose; repercussions coming for design, copy desks (2)
02: Depressing thought for the day (3)
02: Birthdays for Tuesday, June 2 (1)
01: Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash., launches redesign (0)
01: Three Freedom-owned dailies in Eastern North Carolina launch redesigns (0)
01: Register-Guard of Eugene, Ore., launches redesign (0)
01: Birthdays for Monday, June 1 (1)

31: Orlando Sentinel’s Bonita Burton recovering after major hand injury, surgery (4)
31: How many balloons DOES it take to lift a house, anyway? (0)
30: Bakersfield’s James Bennett moving to D.C. for government job (0)
30: Birthday for Saturday, May 30 (0)
29: ‘Art of Being Brilliant’ coming to Columbia, S.C. (0)
29: Birthdays for Friday, May 29 (0)
28: What you don’t want to see on the pages of your newspaper (0)
28: Bringing out the sixth-grader in me (4)
28: Under consideration: Consolidating design, copy desks of Merc, Contra Costa Times (1)
28: What does Kevin Hand do after Newsweek? Animation for MTV. (1)
28: Birthdays for Thursday, May 28 (1)
27: New Yorker cover drawn with iPhone app (0)
27: Birthdays for Wednesday, May 27 (0)
26: Birthdays for Tuesday, May 26 (2)
25: Give up my Hawaiian shirts? Over my dead body… (12)
25: Birthdays for Monday, May 25 (3)
23: Birthday for Saturday, May 23 (0)
22: Jeff Goertzen recovering after major surgery (3)
22: My 29th high school class reunion is Saturday (1)
22: Seattle P-I’s Colin Powers moves to Wisconsin State Journal (0)
22: Birthdays for Friday, May 22 (0)
21: Behind today’s unusual Tampa Bay Times front page (8)
21: Report: Google considered buying a newspaper (1)
21: Judge considers banning perpwalk photos by Newsday (4)
21: Birthday for Thursday, May 21 (0)
20: A new way of putting an ad on the front page (4)
20: For your consideration… (1)
20: A look at last week’s redesign of the Wilmington, N.C., Star News (1)
20: Free tabloid starts up in Santa Clarita, Calif. (0)
20: Birthdays for Wednesday, May 20 (1)
19: Ledger Dispatch of Jackson, Calif., redesigns (0)
19: Huntsville Times launches redesign (1)
19: Sorry I missed a few birthdays… (1)
19: Birthdays for Tuesday, May 19 (0)
18: Birthdays for Monday, May 18 (0)
11: Another personal update (2)
11: Baltimore Sun changes typefaces, apparently to match Tribune company in-house styles (7)
10: Still out of commission for a few days (0)
08: A few Star Trek A1 page toppers (7)
07: A quick update about me (14)
05: Wilson, N.C. launches redesign (4)
04: My Star Trek toy collection (22)
04: Birthday for Monday, May 4 (0)
03: Yes, we have Google ads here in the blog (9)
03: Memo to newspaper executives (1)
03: Birthdays for Sunday, May 3 (1)
02: Times are hard, even for Batman (0)
02: Birthday for Saturday, May 2 (1)
01: New eye candy for sports photography buffs (3)
01: John McIntyre bounces back… with a new copy-editing blog (1)
01: Now available, at your local Walmart: Chicago Sun-Times T-shirts (1)

30: Tribune considers design, copy editing functions to be ‘manufacturing’ (80)
30: Did Washingtonian go overboard with Photoshop? (0)
29: Among Baltimore Sun layoffs: Billy Wachsberger, John McIntyre (3)
29: Arizona’s Joey Kirk moving to Tribune interactive (15)
29: Photographers association to host free layoff-coping seminar (0)
29: My in-laws give their thoughts on the new-and-improved AJC (0)
29: Bryan Monroe leaves Ebony, Jet magazines (0)
29: Many find Twitter hard to use? Or just lacking value? (3)
29: Birthdays for Wednesday, April 29 (0)
28: Poynter soliciting paid “Job Help Memberships” (3)
28: Harrisburg, Pa., Patriot-News launches ‘stealth’ redesign (1)
27: Atlanta Journal-Constitution launches redesign Tuesday (0)
27: Small Minnesota weekly, the Farmington Independent, redesigns (6)
26: Thanks for all the kind birthday wishes (5)
26: Front pages of the Athens Ga. shooting; the Myrtle Beach fire (1)
26: Birthdays for Sunday, April 26 (3)
25: Bill Pitzer explains the science behind the Myrtle Beach fire (1)
25: Saturday’s coverage of the Myrtle Beach fire (2)
24: How Carolina papers are playing the Myrtle Beach fires (2)
24: Don’t create an ‘epic fail’ if you use sports logos this weekend (1)
24: Another peek at the new Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1)
24: First look: redesign of the Wilson, N.C., Times (0)
24: Birthdays for Friday, April 24 (0)
23: Myrtle Beach fire coverage, day two (0)
23: Tim Ball named design director of Huntsville (Ala.) Times (1)
23: Coverage of the fires in North Myrtle Beach (0)
23: Thirty-one college students to watch for 2009 (9)
23: Birthday for Thursday, April 23 (0)
22: Layoffs today at the Chicago Tribune (0)
22: Colorado Springs to launch parallel edition (4)
22: It ain’t just newspapers, y’know… (0)
21: A very funny tribute to the latest round of layoffs in Raleigh (0)
21: Now available on iTunes: Detroit newspaper jingle (1)
21: Tuesday redesign #3: Olympian of Olympia, Wash. (0)
21: WSJ says blogging is profitable for many? Don’t believe it. (2)
21: Tuesday redesign #2: Tacoma (Wash.) News Tribune (1)
21: Tuesday redesign #1: Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph Herald (0)
21: Birthdays for Tuesday, April 21 (0)
20: Why you really HAVE to edit online comments (2)
20: Chinese government launches English-language newspaper (0)
20: Among layoffs at Orlando Sentinel: Eric Palm (3)
18: Our session Friday in West Chester, Pa. (3)
18: Birthday for Saturday, April 18 (0)
17: A fun Thursday in Harrisburg, Pa. (0)
17: Birthday for Friday, April 17 (1)
16: Watching the early morning fog lift in Harrisburg, Pa. (6)
16: Too far with a photoillustration? (3)
15: 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea? (0)
15: ‘Address the crowd where it is gathered’ (0)
15: On the road and off the grid… (2)
15: Ron Reason needs your help for kids, library, artists in Kenya (0)
15: Birthdays for Wednesday, April 15 (1)
14: R.I.P., Lake Norman (N.C.) Times (3)
14: Last call for training this month in Pennsylvania (0)
14: Stop using pop-culture references? That’d be nutty, buddy. (9)
14: More layoff news — and it ain’t pretty (1)
13: Syracuse Post-Standard launches redesign today (4)
13: Look at Masters week in the Augusta Chronicle (0)
13: Honolulu Star-Bulletin unveils new compact format (1)
12: For your consideration… (2)
12: Birthday for Sunday, April 12 (0)
11: Don’t forget our Pennsylvania shows Thursday and Friday (0)
11: Birthdays for Saturday, April 11 (0)
10: New trend: Phasing out graphics departments? (17)
10: Orlando Sentinel lays off Nicole Bogdas (12)
10: Louisville Courier-Journal runs the ultimate poster front (1)
10: Twitter really does help get news out quickly (0)
10: Claim: Change in language has screwed up Scrabble (2)
10: Birthdays for Friday, April 10 (1)
09: Atlanta Journal-Constitution lays off entire news graphics department (27)
09: L.A. front page ads part two: UCLA student paper published fake news wrap (3)
09: Page-one ad encroachment takes another bold leap today in Los Angeles (23)
09: Washington Post gives props to the Peeps (2)
09: Birthdays for Thursday, April 9 (2)
08: D’oh! Associated Press pulls boneheaded move of the year (1)
08: Average Twitter user is a lot older than you think (3)
08: Advice on the design of online news pages from a ‘usability expert’ (4)
08: I’ve had enough of the anti-Google hysteria (4)
08: Birthday for Wednesday, April 8 (1)
07: Tampa Tribune makes changes to six-month-old redesign (6)
07: Today’s NCAA championship fronts (1)
07: Birthday for Tuesday, April 7 (1)
06: Cincinnati Enquirer reportedly considering odd format size (5)
06: If you’re a copy editor, don’t read this (10)
06: Northern Virginia Daily redesigns (0)
05: Don’t miss these infographics, small-paper workshops in Pennsylvania (0)
05: Long Beach, Calif., Press-Telegram redesigns (0)
05: Birthday for Sunday, April 5 (0)
04: How papers covered the tragic shootings Friday in New York (0)
04: London Free Press kills photo when readers complain via web gallery (0)
04: Birthday for Saturday, April 4 (2)
03: After 1,200+ calls over three days, San Antonio changes redesign (2)
03: Last call for our annual listing of interns and j-school grads (0)
03: What journalism schools ought to be doing (0)
03: Paul Wallen moves to tiny Kerrville, Texas, Daily Times (11)
03: Communications student booted from new Mets stadium because of his clothing (2)
03: On furlough? Why not swap houses with another furloughed journalist? (4)
03: Google now broadcasting ads via Twitter (0)
03: Birthdays for Friday, April 3 (1)
02: Day four: Class visits at the University of Iowa (1)
02: Birthdays for Thursday, April 2 (0)
01: My bad travel luck is all behind me now (5)
01: San Antonio Express-News reduces web width, tweaks format (2)
01: Day three: class visits at the University of Iowa (0)
01: A request for help: We’d like to see your best photo pages (1)
01: Nevada Appeal converts to tab format (0)
01: How editorial cartoonists are covering the media meltdown (1)
01: Birthday for Wednesday, April 1 (2)

31: Discussing the future of journalism with Iowa j-school students (1)
31: Mario Garcia on listening to readers’ complaints (0)
31: From managing editor to prison reform (0)
31: Birthday for Tuesday, March 31 (0)
30: Hartford Courant artist Kuykendall loses battle with cancer (3)
30: Aliens attack Virginia Beach* (1)
30: The coolest kids want to be visual journalists (1)
30: Detroit Free Press launches redesign (0)
30: Washington Post rearranges sections; International Herald-Tribune redesigns (0)
30: Rare Schulz ‘Peanuts’ April Fool’s comic to be auctioned (0)
30: ‘San Seriffe’ baseball card to be released (0)
30: Birthdays for Monday, March 30 (0)
29: First look: Detroit News redesign (0)
29: Sunday afternoon in Iowa City (0)
29: My travel luck is all good today. So far. (2)
29: Detroit papers to debut new looks Monday (0)
29: Heading back to Iowa this morning (0)
29: Looking for advice: What specialty should we study in order to keep doing journalism? (1)
29: So what do you call a ‘director of social media,’ anyway? (0)
29: Birthday for Sunday, March 29 (0)
27: A report on our Thursday in Lakeland, Fla. (7)
27: Responsible for the death of newspapers: Design directors? (8)
27: NAA’s free vs. paid online content report is out… but ya gotta pay to read it (2)
27: Google design chief resigns… and slams Google (3)
27: Birthdays for Friday, March 27 (0)
26: We guess that’s why they call this town Lakeland (2)
26: A reminder: SmartNews free-lance co-op kicks off next Wednesday (0)
26: Calling all journalism summer interns (0)
26: Birthday for Thursday, March 26 (1)
25: Paul Wallen laid off by Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (12)
25: Houston Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution among papers making massive layoffs this week (0)
25: Bakersfield Californian to redesign again? (2)
25: Newspapers that ‘will survive the apocalypse’? Perhaps. (1)
25: What RevenueTwoPointZero participants thought about RevenueTwoPointZero (0)
25: Honolulu Advertiser launches redesign (0)
25: Recorder and Times of Brockville, Ontario, redesigns (0)
25: That Keith Olbermann you’re following on Twitter? It ain’t him. (2)
24: Kris Kinkade is doing quite well, thank you (2)
24: Prices falling for newspaper properties (1)
24: Putting the search for a business model into perspective (1)
24: Birthdays for Tuesday, March 24 (0)
23: St. Louis Post-Dispatch launches redesign (8)
23: Spooky houses, separated at birth? (0)
23: Hope for multimedia journalists? A tip for all college journalists? (0)
23: RevenueTwoPointZero posts prototypes (2)
23: Montana papers cover the Sunday plane crash (0)
23: Newspapers asking for help from Google (0)
23: Mario: Sunday paper should be ‘contemplative and meditative’ (0)
22: It’s not too late to join us in Lakeland, Fla., on Thursday… (0)
22: Birthdays for Sunday, March 22 (0)
21: RevenueTwoPointZero calls it a day (2)
21: Mid-afternoon recap of the RevenueTwoPointZero project (1)
21: RevenueTwoPointZero begins effort to find a business model (1)
20: Keep an eye out this weekend for RevenueTwoPointZero (1)
20: Little Red Riding Hood as an infographic (0)
20: We’re assembling our annual list of interns to watch… (0)
20: Facebook, Twitter changing journalism (0)
20: Birthdays for Friday, March 20 (1)
19: Quote for the day (0)
19: Twitter leaps over shark, lands on Tribune editorial page (4)
19: SmartNews co-operative to bring free-lancers within reach of small papers (1)
19: Today’s talker: Updated Charlie Manson mug shot (1)
19: First look: Redesign of the Sunday Tribune of South Africa (2)
18: Critiquing interactive college hoops brackets (0)
18: Commercial Dispatch of Columbus, Miss., launches redesign (0)
18: Consultant Ron Reason offering free critiques to out-of-work designers (0)
18: For your consideration… (6)
18: Two fun notes about Seattle Post-Intelligencer sports design (2)
18: A plug for the ACES conference in Minneapolis April 30-May 2 (0)
18: Augusta Chronicle hires former photog as executive editor (0)
18: Birthdays for Wednesday, March 18 (0)
17: Coming next month to Pennsylvania: Sessions on small-paper design; infographics (0)
17: Seattle Post-Intelligencer publishes final edition (0)
17: Wisconsin State Journal redesigns for narrower web width (0)
17: Birthdays for Tuesday, March 17 (0)
16: How the Syracuse Post-Standard covered Thursday’s six-overtime game (1)
16: Don’t forget ‘Brilliant’ in Lakeland, Florida, March 26 (0)
16: Keeli Garza takes buyout in Fort Worth (1)
16: Design computers stolen from Atlanta-area bimonthly paper (0)
15: Photos from our Austin presentation (1)
15: Birthdays for Sunday, March 15 (0)
14: Making a place for journalism in the electronic age (0)
13: My futile attempt to get the hell out of Austin (3)
13: Have you changed your password lately? (0)
13: Birthday for Friday, March 13 (0)
12: The (shady) story behind one of the most famous photos ever taken (4)
11: Spotted at the Austin airport (2)
11: A job interview at Larry Flynt Publications (2)
11: What gets page views? ‘Exploitation.’ (0)
11: Birthday for Wednesday, March 11 (0)
10: Boston Globe shuts down weekly sports tab (1)
10: Top 10 endangered newspapers? Perhaps. (3)
10: Paid content online? Been there, done that (0)
10: Why papers are leaving the Associated Press (1)
10: Now THAT’s how you promote a redesign (3)
10: Former Tribune designer, RedEye sports editor named Trib’s AME for Sports (0)
09: Come be ‘Brilliant’ Thursday in Austin (1)
09: Hell officially freezes over: I’m now on Twitter (2)
09: VisualEditors.com marks five years of service to visual journalists (6)
09: L.A. Daily News to try customized papers this summer (0)
08: ‘Art of Being Brilliant’ coming to Lakeland, Fla., on March 26 (0)
08: Birthday for Sunday, March 8 (0)
07: When good column sigs go bad (0)
07: The incredible power of infographics (1)
07: Deccan Herald of Bangalore, India, redesigns (0)
06: Kevin Hand takes voluntary buyout from Newsweek (7)
06: When the going gets tough, the tough… redesign their logos? (5)
06: Building Billy Joel and Elton John out of song lyrics (3)
06: Birthdays for Friday, March 6 (4)
05: It’s time for newspaper marketing that doesn’t ’suck’ (5)
05: When newspapers become broadcasters (1)
05: Having a weird name in an electronic world (3)
05: Birthday for Thursday, March 5 (0)
04: Welcome to the world, little Jessmer… (6)
04: Covering the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team (0)
04: Who’ll be watching the Watchmen? (2)
04: Uniontown (Pa.) Herald-Standard launches redesign (0)
04: Brampton Guardian — a Toronto-area tri-weekly — redesigns (0)
03: Q&A with Tom Priddy, Presslink pioneer, multimedia editor, photographer (0)
03: Virginian-Pilot finds clever way to use the Facebook album cover game (0)
03: The Dickinson (N.D.) Press launches redesign (0)
03: Sault Star of Canada launches redesign (0)
03: Birthday for Tuesday, March 3 (4)
02: Idaho Statesman launches redesign (2)
02: Wall Street Journal expanding sports coverage (1)
02: Don’t forget to come be ‘brilliant’ next week in Austin (0)
02: Student SND contest deadline approaching (0)
02: Twitter takes a step towards actual utility (3)
02: AdAge destroys ‘newspapers are unprofitable’ argument (1)
01: New consumer-oriented daily launches in Saigon (1)
01: Birthday for Sunday, March 1 (0)

February 2009

28: Man, was this weird to see today (3)
28: Whatever happened to the tabloid revolution? (10)
28: For your consideration… (3)
28: Birthdays for Saturday, Feb. 28 (0)
27: You’ve just lost your job. What’s next? (27)
27: Final Rocky Mountain News front page (6)
26: Newsday to fight the trend; charge for news online (2)
26: Monica Moses: Newspapers not responsive enough to a critical public? (4)
26: R.I.P. Rocky (5)
26: Can one story have too many puns? (2)
26: Birthday for Thursday, Feb. 26 (3)
25: San Antonio lays off 14 in design and graphics and 6 in photo (4)
25: MCT ‘Podiumcam’ photog now working for the White House (2)
25: Megan O’Brien Ruyle moves to The Hill in D.C. (5)
25: Gloucester (Mass.) Times proudly changes its nameplate logo (0)
25: Internship alert: National Geographic (0)
25: Video interviews with two of the world’s best-designed papers (0)
25: Birthdays for Wednesday, Feb. 25 (1)
24: Clif Page laid off by Beaver County Times (23)
24: Play Bingo during tonight’s Presidential address (0)
24: Pattie Barry named web editor of Lewiston (Maine) Sun Journal (1)
24: Marin Devine moves to The National (3)
24: Missoulian of western Montana redesigns (0)
24: Another tiny Canadian daily — the Chatham Daily News — redesigns (0)
24: News you can use: How to depart your office (0)
24: What happens when you lay off too many copy editors (1)
23: A terrific little design exercise for your enjoyment (8)
23: Newport News Daily Press launches redesign (3)
23: Spokesman-Review begins its redesign process with comics (0)
22: Cute web site gimmicks gone wild (5)
22: New ‘ad stack’ format surfaces in Sunday Star Tribune (5)
22: Birthdays for Sunday, Feb. 22 (0)
20: For your consideration… (23)
20: A new RSS feed for journalism job seekers (0)
20: Illustrating Omaha’s A1 with watercolor (0)
20: A couple of visual geniuses post portfolio sites (0)
20: Birthdays for Friday, Feb. 20 (3)
19: Facebook ownership rights issue settled… for now (0)
19: Roger Black to “tweak” Washington Post design (0)
19: Battle erupts over Auburn University student paper (7)
19: Barrie (Ontario) Examiner launches redesign (0)
18: SND winners are posted (0)
18: Miami Daily Business Review redesigns (0)
18: Third-graders work on their own newspaper pages (0)
17: Laugh for the day (0)
17: Yes, NewsPageDesigner is down (7)
17: ‘Art of Being Brilliant’ coming to Austin (0)
17: Birthday for Tuesday, Feb. 17 (0)
16: Weekend section fronts from the Buffalo News (0)
16: A friendly warning about Facebook… (5)
16: Birthday for Monday, Feb. 16 (1)
15: Illinois papers observe one-year anniversary of NIU shootings (0)
15: Colleagues pay tribute to cartoonist friend (0)
15: For your consideration… (0)
15: Washington Hispanic launches redesign (0)
15: Worcester Telegram & Gazette launches redesign (0)
15: Birthday for Sunday, Feb. 15 (2)
14: For your consideration (0)
14: BFD brings in a surprising guest columnist (1)
14: Birthdays for Saturday, Feb. 14 (0)
13: Buffalo News covers late-evening plane crash (0)
13: A Thursday morning in Cary, N.C. (0)
13: Birthday for Friday, Feb. 13 (0)
12: New design trend: Lots of text? (6)
11: On the road in Edenton, N.C. (2)
11: Meet the next news design superstar (10)
11: Newspaper entrepreneur stirring up Concrete (0)
11: Birthdays for Wednesday, Feb. 11 (0)
10: Stop the presses! Toronto’s Metro finds a viable new business model (0)
10: Welland Tribune of Canada launches redesign (0)
10: Another poor ad juxtaposition (2)
10: First weekend of SND contest judging is complete (0)
10: Birthdays for Tuesday, Feb. 10 (1)
09: Don’t forget to come be ‘brilliant’ Thursday in Cary (0)
09: Birthdays for Monday, Feb. 9 (0)
07: Honolulu Star-Bulletin to switch to tabloid (0)
07: Coverage of SND/30 judging is up and running (1)
07: Poland’s Jacek Utko, speaking at TED: Make papers more flashy, fun (0)
07: Birthday for Saturday, Feb. 7 (0)
06: A look at Atlanta Journal-Constitution prototypes (6)
06: Don’t forget the two SND chats today (0)
05: Notes from Poynter’s visual ethics chat (4)
05: ‘Ich bin nicht ein Berliner’ (0)
05: AP says iconic Obama poster ripped off image from AP photo (1)
05: Don’t forget about the Poynter chat today on visual ethics (0)
05: SND to kick off contest-judging weekend with two video webinars (1)
05: Next up for news artists perhaps: Writing applications (2)
05: Birthdays for Thursday, Feb. 5 (0)
04: Tribune said to be preparing content-sharing initiative, prefab ‘A-section modules’ (4)
04: Guardian creative director gives his take on the new Times of London redesign (0)
04: Poynter chat to discuss Photoshop ethics (1)
04: Photojournalism is evolving, but in a good way? (0)
04: Birthday for Wednesday, Feb. 4 (1)
03: Don’t forget: We’ll be in Cary, N.C., next Thursday (0)
03: Greeneville (Tenn.) Sun launches redesign (0)
03: Those amazing, shrinking nameplates (2)
03: Birthday for Tuesday, Feb. 3 (1)
02: Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune redesigns (0)
02: Super Bowl monday pages from Pennsylvania, Arizona (3)
02: Prince George Citizen launches redesign (0)
02: ‘The Day the Music Died’ comes to life in Iowa (0)
02: Birthday for Monday, Feb. 2 (0)
01: A look at a few Super Bowl preview pages (2)
01: Our latest free-lance offering: Super Bowl graphics package (0)
01: San Francisco Chronicle launches redesign (0)
01: Birthdays for Sunday, Feb. 1 (0)

January 2009

30: Our favorite Super Bowl memories (2)
30: How papers in Illinois played the Blagojevich story (8)
30: What does Nevada’s Michael Higdon think he is? A rocket scientist? (0)
30: New social networking site created for Indian visual journalists (1)
30: Birthday for Friday, Jan. 30 (0)
29: Did you see today’s Detroit News? (8)
29: Rich Boudet redesigns SportsDesigner web site (2)
29: Dolls of Obama children bad; comic strip good? (1)
29: What will you do on YOUR furlough? (2)
29: Birthdays for Thursday, Jan. 29 (2)
28: San Francisco Chronicle redesign to debut Sunday (0)
28: One time you don’t want to abbreviate “Ohio” (2)
28: Be Jackson Pollock for a day (3)
28: Nick Mrozowski becomes art director of start-up paper in Lisbon (1)
28: A look at the new Quad-City Times, Iowa, redesign (1)
28: Next to be eliminated, perhaps: The editorial pages (2)
28: AJR documents ‘life after newspapers’ (0)
28: Birthday for Wednesday, Jan. 28 (0)
27: Link’s Ernie Smith hired by the Washington D.C. Express (2)
27: President Obama mugged! (2)
27: More about last week’s redesign of the Billings (Mont.) Gazette (0)
27: Newark, Ohio, Advocate launched redesign Sunday (0)
27: Birthday for Tuesday, Jan. 27 (0)
26: Now that’s how you capture ‘The Moment’ (0)
26: ‘Art of Being Brilliant’ returns to Cary, N.C. on Feb. 12 (2)
26: Birthdays for Monday, Jan. 26 (0)
25: Birthday for Sunday, Jan. 25 (0)
24: Happy 25th birthday, Macintosh computer (0)
24: NYT apparently invaded by sixth-graders (5)
24: Birthdays for Saturday, Jan. 24 (2)
23: What, me worry? Mad magazine cuts publication frequency (1)
23: Geekazoid Friday: New Star Trek toys on the way (4)
23: Life after newspapers: Can you make it as a professional blogger? (0)
23: Esquire magazine creates flap over flap advertisement (1)
23: What’s hurting newspapers the most: Debt, says Nieman Lab (0)
23: Daily Herald’s Dick Westgard retiring today (4)
23: Birthdays for Friday, Jan. 23 (0)
22: The NYT’s multimedia Fab Five take questions from the public (0)
22: Covering the inauguration at a tiny N.C. paper (2)
22: A look at a couple of pre-inauguration special projects (0)
22: Boston Globe runs first front-page ad (0)
22: ‘Seeing is believing’ (2)
22: How Australia’s The Age covered the inauguration (1)
22: Birthday for Thursday, Jan. 22 (0)
21: Wednesday Obama inaugural fronts (8)
21: Birthday for Wednesday, Jan. 21 (0)
20: Whiz-bang technology provides lots of whiz, not enough bang (6)
20: ‘Extra, extra’: Inaugural extra edition fronts (0)
20: Tuesday Obama inaugural fronts (1)
20: Putting out an Extra edition today? (0)
20: Chicago Tribune hires four to help with increased presentation load (0)
20: Birthdays for Tuesday, Jan. 20 (1)
19: An internet meme for Real Change (0)
19: CNN, Microsoft to attempt to create 3D ’snapshot’ of ‘The Moment’ (2)
19: A few Monday Obama inaugural fronts (0)
19: Tribune single-copy tabloid debuts today to acclaim (0)
19: Conference championship game fronts (0)
19: Billings (Mont.) Gazette launches redesign (0)
19: NYT ‘interactive innovation team’ to take questions this week (0)
19: New daily, Jakarta Globe, launched in November (1)
19: Birthdays for Monday, Jan. 19 (0)
18: A look at Sunday’s Obama inaugural fronts (1)
18: Poynter to host live chat Wednesday about inaugural fronts (0)
17: A report on our Shreveport sessions (1)
17: Birthday for Saturday, Jan. 17 (0)
16: Best photo of Thursday’s NYC airplane crash was brought to you by iPhone and Twitter (4)
16: Birthdays for Friday, Jan. 16 (0)
15: ‘Khaaaaaaaaan!’ (2)
15: Redesigning a paper that may close down soon (0)
15: Obama Spider-Man comic book already a hot collectors’ item (1)
15: Birthdays for Thursday, Jan. 15 (0)
14: Come be ‘Brilliant’ Thursday in Shreveport (0)
14: An iTunes for news? Bring it on… (1)
14: Photog who captured close-up of helicopter crash felt “no big terror in my guts” (1)
14: Tulsa World lays off designer after only four months (3)
14: Birthdays for Wednesday, Jan. 14 (0)
13: The twin-edition thing HAS been done before (2)
13: Chicago Tribune to convert to tab format for single-copy sales (1)
13: Following the inauguration via Twitter (0)
13: Wanted: Blogger. Must have own suntan lotion and be willing to relocate… (1)
13: Now there’s something you don’t see every day… (1)
13: Gannett getting into centralized web site design, publishing for the Kindle (2)
13: Birthdays for Tuesday, Jan. 13 (0)
12: Speaking of redesigns, El Mundo appears to have freshened up, too (1)
12: Ex-photographer, page designer named managing editor of Juneau Empire (0)
12: Jakarta Post launches redesign (0)
12: Who are these rock star guys? (5)
12: Birthday for Monday, Jan. 12 (0)
10: Birthdays for Saturday, Jan. 10 (0)
09: Don’t forget ‘The Art of Being Brilliant’ Thursday in Shreveport (0)
09: Mario Garcia, Arianna Huffington on the future of media (0)
09: New issue of SND/Scandinavia magazine available as a PDF (0)
09: Artist proposes a ‘new theory of color reading’ for newspapers (0)
09: A primer for making the transition from print to online (0)
08: Seattle Post-Intelligencer reportedly up for sale (0)
08: Google ads strike again! (0)
08: E&P blew it today with its story about the Tribune redesign ‘goof’ (3)
08: USA Today posts preview of Obama + Spider-Man comic book (0)
08: Chicago’s RedEye publishes a stunning cover. Yet again. (1)
08: Chicago Tribune announces number of tweaks to its redesign (0)
08: England’s Daily Sport rumored to be ready to shut down this year (1)
08: Birthday for Thursday, Jan. 8 (0)
07: A new trend? Weekly tabs switching to broadsheet format (0)
07: Check out all the cool College Bowl pages (0)
07: A roundup of recent job changes, announcements (3)
06: But does the reader regret the complaint? (2)
06: Birthdays for Tuesday, Jan. 6 (0)
05: ‘The Art of Being Brilliant,’ coming to Shreveport Jan. 15 (1)
05: New York Times runs its first Page One display ad (3)
05: ‘Helvetica’ documentary on many PBS statious Tuesday (2)
05: Another one bites the dust (1)
03: Today’s Times-Picayune headline is a ‘blast from the past’ (7)
02: What we need more of: Customers with a sense of humor (0)
02: Following up on the Oregonian’s state flag contest (2)
02: Dummy text happens in TV, too (1)
01: Link’s Ernie Smith launches new short-form blog (4)
01: Happy New Year (2)
01: The final layoff of 2008: USA Today dismisses the letter ‘U’ (5)

December 2008

31: Arizona Republic’s Desiree Shoe moving to NYT (2)
31: Finally! Federal bail-out money for newspapers? (1)
30: Editor of small Ohio paper explains his ‘Christmas card’ front (0)
30: Apparent cruise ship suicide victim was talented reporter, editor, designer (1)
29: Have you backed up your NPD portfolio yet? (2)
29: Another design convert (0)
26: New business strategies: Ignore the web? Stuff newspapers into your clothes? (1)
26: Elgin, Ill., Courier News to convert to tab (0)
25: Ho, ho, show! (6)
24: A merry Christmas to you all (0)
23: Another free-lance project: College bowl guide (2)
23: Margo Morgan promoted at Rockford Register Star (1)
22: Monty Cook named editor of the Baltimore Sun (0)
22: Two Florida dailies redesign: Fort Myers, Winter Haven (0)
22: Editorial cartoonist association president takes issue with Time’s Top 10 cartoons (0)
19: Geekazoid Friday: This is how sad it’s become… (1)
19: Allisence Chang hired by Arizona Republic (5)
19: Jonathan Kleinow picked up by Wisconsin State Journal (3)
17: We’ll bet that looks interesting in the rack (1)
16: Detroit papers to offer home delivery only three days a week (1)
16: Sun-Times runs editorial cartoon out front (0)
16: RedEye’s Chris Courtney moves to multimedia side (0)
12: The logic of the business world escapes us (4)
12: A great new tool for you to use at Facebook (2)
11: USA Today’s Richard Curtis to retire Dec. 23 (1)
11: Poynter’s book of Obama front pages is outstanding (0)
11: NYT spends half a million on infographics? Every month? (0)
11: St. Pete Times hires Darla Cameron as print and multimedia artist (3)
11: Redesign, ‘more photos’ to accompany staff cuts at Newsweek (0)
10: Illinois papers cover their (allegedly) naughty governor (4)
10: What happens when scientists dabble in visual journalism (0)
09: AJC’s Shane Blatt back on A1 again… but as a reporter, not as a designer (2)
08: Cleveland Plain Dealer seeks design intern (5)
08: Layoffs in Bakersfield erase 7 newsroom jobs (1)
08: Seattle Times combines features, local news sections (1)
08: Meet new computer industry blogger Meg Lavey (1)
08: Tiffany Schwarz goes to Baseball America magazine (1)
08: Freep publishes full-page, page-one editorial (2)
08: That was the week that was (0)
03: Reportedly laid off: Harris Siegel at Asbury Park; Nina Mehta at Indy (5)
03: My blog is sick and I don’t feel so damn good myself (1)
03: Sale of the Virginian-Pilot is off for now (0)
02: Bonita Burton, Chris Snider named to ‘20 under 40′ list (1)
02: Signs of the the times (1)
01: My latest free-lance project (1)

November 2008

26: Yuri Victor new Product Design manager for Gannett (5)
26: Salt Lake Tribune launched “small” redesign last week (2)
25: Get busy now if you want an internship for next summer (0)
23: Virginian-Pilot kills Link tab, lays off 15 from newsroom (14)
23: Deb Withey leaving the Virginian-Pilot (6)
23: AP and military go at it — again — over doctored handout photos (0)
23: Tales of woe; tales of hope. But mostly of woe. (0)
23: Sorry about our outage (1)
18: Laugh for the day (2)
18: A few more items regarding the election (0)
17: Aberdeen, S.D., American News redesigns (1)
17: Casper Star-Tribune launches redesign today (0)
17: Link brings in more guest illustrators for Monday fronts (0)
16: Omaha’s Josh Crutchmer joins Chicago Tribune (5)
16: Shoulda run a poster front of Obama, editor says (4)
15: Fundraising campaign underway to save NewsPageDesigner (1)
14: Pssst, Mr. President… (3)
14: Time for another geekazoid Friday-palooza (4)
14: I always wondered about these clowns… (5)
14: ‘Duh!’: “Unauthorized” Web articles cost newspapers (0)
13: Warning: Back up your NewsPageDesigner portfolio (3)
13: Another spoof: Harper’s Weekly lays off cartoonist Thomas Nast (1)
12: A couple more interesting election-related graphics (1)
12: Is graphic design art? (1)
12: Spoofs running rampant (1)
10: Poynter to publish collection of Obama fronts (1)
09: Alan Jacobson’s BFD returns (0)
09: Why Athens, Ala., went with a file shot of Obama (0)
07: Eleven editors and designers sound off on Election poster fronts (9)
07: Election maps as quantitative, rathern geographical, devices (0)
07: European papers make the same choices too, sometimes (1)
07: Rejected* Chicago Tribune front page (0)
07: How the Ball State Daily News covered the election (1)
06: Austin goes spadea with its post-election day paper (0)
06: Alternate weekly election covers (0)
06: Another amusing Obama cover from an alt-weekly (0)
06: The demand is still strong for Wednesday’s newspapers (0)
06: Interesting Obama headline from Germany (0)
06: Chicago Reader prepares two tongue-in-cheek election covers (1)
05: Election front pages, take two: The day after (26)
04: A selection of interesting fronts from Election Day (0)
04: My free-lance Electoral College project (5)
03: First look: Redesign of Chicago’s Streetwise (3)
02: Forget the election pundits — Watch Monday’s Redskins game (5)

October 2008

31: Are you ready for Election Day? (1)
30: Update on the sale of the Virginian-Pilot: No sale (0)
28: Charles Blow’s week in the barrel for the NYT (1)
26: NYT redesigns its two Florida papers: Ocala, Gainesville (7)
26: Ocala learns the hard way: Don’t screw with the puzzles (0)
24: Oregonian takes on the Oregon state flag (25)
23: ‘We regret the error. Now live long, and prosper.’ (4)
22: Las Vegas Sun’s Tyson Evans moves to NYT (1)
22: SND looking for help with next year’s contest book (0)
21: First look: L.A. Times redesign launched today (22)
20: Redesign alert: LA Times reportedly launches Tuesday (0)
20: Just your “type” of island getaway (1)
16: This just begs for a caption contest (14)
15: An update about me (14)
08: I got canned today (83)
07: Redesign alert: Boston Herald launches Tuesday (1)
07: This weekâ€™s birthdays: Oct. 7-13 (0)
05: Tampa Tribune redesign debuts today (8)
03: The homecoming queen of 1976 (0)
03: Go ahead and apply. You know you want to! (1)
03: Redesign alert: Tampa Tribune launches Monday (0)
02: Orlando Sentinel’s Tory Hargo moves to USA Today (1)
01: AJR suddenly discovers Alternative Story Forms (5)

September 2008

30: Ideas for other newspaper-branded airport shops (2)
30: This weekâ€™s birthdays: Sept. 30-Oct. 6 (0)
29: Chicago Tribune, Oklahoman redesigns debut today (0)
28: An in-depth look at the new Hartford Courant redesign (11)
28: Redesign alerts for Monday (0)
28: Hartford Courant redesign launched today (3)
28: Yet another unfortunate juxtaposition (1)
26: First look: Hartford Courant redesign launches Sunday (9)
26: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly (0)
26: Raleigh N&O sheds editorial cartoonist Dwane Powell, multimedia artist Grey Blackwell (1)
25: Pulitzer-winning photographer documented racial attack on a football field (0)
25: Two Florida weeklies seek design help (3)
25: Boston Globe launches weekly sports tab (0)
23: Meg Lavey leaves the newspaper business (9)
23: Chicago Tribune redesign launches Monday (1)
23: This weekâ€™s birthdays: Sept. 23-29 (1)
17: Teaching in Harrisburg: Day Three (0)
17: Following up on SND/Vegas (2)
17: Washington Post’s Rick Redfern takes a buyout (2)
16: One more market meltdown front (5)
16: A study in contrasts (1)
16: Teaching this week in Harrisburg, Pa. (0)
15: This week’s birthdays: Sept. 15-21 (0)
15: First look: Barstow redesign pages (3)
12: Redesign alert: Desert Dispatch of Barstow to launch Monday (0)
12: We’ll be in Harrisburg, Pa., on Monday… (1)
12: The space above your nameplate is NOT sacred (0)
11: Jeffrey Coffey hired by Franklin, Ind., Daily Journal (5)
11: Travis Ricks now employed again… but not in newspapers (2)
10: Chris Olds leaves newspapers for world of specialty magazines (11)
10: Chicago Tribune redesign prototypes, take two (0)
10: Orange Country Register reportedly considering going tab (0)
09: Pensacola paper begins parallel daily front pages (4)
09: New high school weekly, MASH, debuts in Chicago (1)
08: This week’s birthdays: Sept. 8-14 (1)
06: Caption the cover of the new slick WSJ magazine (2)
05: As promised, the RNC quotes page from San Antonio (1)
05: Bookstore marketing gone bad (7)
04: Tampa Tribune said to be considering pared-down daily paper (0)
04: Anyone need to rent a Villa in Vegas? (1)
02: Getting the most out of SND/Vegas (14)

August 2008

31: Tiffany Schwarz working Sports Information at Univ. of Alabama (2)
31: Martin Gee hired as art director of Oregon Business (18)
31: Shraddha Swaroop leaves Virginian-Pilot (0)
31: This week’s birthdays: Sept. 1-7 (0)
30: Columbus Dispatch launches new Saturday football insert (1)
30: The Sun-Times’ commemorative Barack Obama front (3)
29: A collection of DNC fronts (2)
29: Gatehouse Media sells Grand Island Independent to Omaha World-Herald (1)
29: Miami Herald, Sun Sentinel and Palm Beach Post announce content-sharing plan (3)
29: San Antonio collects memorable quotes from the DNC (3)
27: Charles Blow starts blog to accompany his NYT ‘visual column’ (1)
27: A quick look at RedEye’s Aug. 11 redesign (2)
26: First look: Chicago Tribune redesign prototype (11)
26: A three-day visual journalism seminar in Harrisburg, Pa. (1)
26: And speaking of funny videos… (0)
26: N&O’s Grey Blackwell has some fun with politics (2)
25: An update about me… (14)
25: This week’s birthdays: Aug. 25-31 (0)
24: Gannett Web promotion: Preview of new Brian Wilson album (1)
24: Live pages from the Baltimore Sun redesign (8)
22: Redesign alert: Baltimore Sun debuts Sunday (27)
22: Tossing the political football in Orlando (1)
21: RedEye’s Jane Hirt named Chicago Tribune managing editor (0)
21: Alan Jacobson critiques Tribune paper redesigns, Poynter site makeover (5)
19: Des Moines Register lays off art director Jeff Bash (2)
18: Steve Ravenscraft takes buyout from the Chicago Tribune (4)
17: Live pages from the SunSentinel redesign (32)
15: An in-depth look at the new-and-improved South Florida SunSentinel (8)
13: Our aggregating script regrets the error… (1)
12: Ball State grad Sara Mahoney grabs internship with new Tribune high school project (1)
12: Tribune company redesign schedule (5)
11: First look: South Florida SunSentinel redesign (39)
10: Redesign: Tiny, 6,000-circulation Laramie, Wyoming (4)
10: A belated look at the Sacramento Bee redesign (4)
08: Editor & Publisher living in the stone age? (0)
07: Giving a voice to the crazies? (14)
07: Just been laid off? Advice from one who’s been there… (14)
06: Wednesday presentation in Gastonia, N.C. (2)
06: Travis Ricks laid off by Sarasota Herald-Tribune (19)
05: Not just a retread of an old idea (1)
04: Still not too late to join us for some brilliance in Gastonia (0)
04: Happy birthday, Deb Withey (0)
03: Redesign alert: The Straits Times of Singapore (1)
03: Happy (late) birthday, Sharon Apple (3)
01: First Look: Redesign of Sun-Sentinel (14)
01: Come be brilliant Wednesday in Gastonia (0)

29: First look: Redesign of the Allentown, Pa., Morning Call (2)
29: Orlando Sentinel lays off Ellen Lynch, Autumn Heep (19)
28: Redesign alert: Allentown, Sacramento (2)
28: Regretting the illo in the NYT (0)
27: Writing in sugar dust (0)
27: Happy birthday, Chris Rukan (4)
27: Happy birthday, Monica Moses (0)
25: Happy birthday, Richard Curtis (0)
24: Encouraging news? (1)
23: An entire newspaper. Written by hand. (2)
23: Dennis Bolt and wife have a third son (2)
22: ‘Sporting News Today’ to debut Wednesday (10)
22: Happy birthday, Denise Covert (6)
21: Boston’s Kristin Lenz moves to Washington Post (2)
21: Sacramento Bee redesign to debut July 29 (4)
21: Tribune redesign elements could debut by early August (0)
21: We’ve become trendy: Newspaper wallpaper (4)
18: Even more Batman feature pages (6)
18: Star Trek geek alert (5)
18: Laid-off LAT designer helping other laid-off employees find jobs (2)
18: More fabulous Batman feature treatments (0)
18: Happy birthday, Andrew Braford (4)
18: Gonna buy five copies for my mama (0)
16: Batman movie feature packages, take one (1)
16: Send us your Batman pages (2)
14: Oh, great. Another buzzword: ‘Microblogging’ (2)
13: Happy birthday, Melissa Angle (3)
11: My last day at The Virginian-Pilot (12)
10: Reader strikes back at newspaper cuts (3)
10: When the Ayatollah uses Photoshop, the terrorists win (2)
09: A busy Wednesday in Lexington, Ky. (0)
09: Strib’s Lisa Clausen loses her battle with cancer (0)
09: Happy birthday, Joy Mayer (2)
07: Come be “brilliant” Wednesday in Lexington (2)
07: Happy birthday, Javier Torres (4)
07: An update about me and the blog (7)
06: Virginian-Pilot parent company sells the Weather Channel (0)
06: Happy birthday, Paul Wallen (10)
02: Charles Apple leaving Virginian-Pilot for Sporting News e-paper (76)
01: Take an illustrated tour of Barack Obama’s Chicago (1)

27: The Merc lays off Martin Gee (27)
26: Orlando’s Kynton Chan leaving newspapers (1)
26: Following up on the redesign of the Cheyenne, Wyoming Tribune Eagle (3)
25: Suburban Phoenix paper goes tabloid (2)
25: Dallas Morning News losing two: a graphics editor and a designer (2)
25: Happy birthday, Lindi Daywalt Feazel (1)
25: Happy birthday, Lauren Kuntz (1)
24: A Wednesday in Atlanta (6)
24: Come be ‘brilliant’ July 9 in Lexington, Ky. (1)
23: I’m blaming everything on vacation… (2)
23: Happy birthday, Ashley Dinges (2)
22: Orlando Sentinel redesign debuts (5)
21: Happy birthday, Bridget O’Donnell (1)
21: Happy birthday, Katrina Lallier (0)
21: Alan Jacobson: ‘Why Orlando will fail’ (17)
20: Blow out those blockbuster movies with the tiny Victoria, Texas, Advocate (2)
20: Happy birthday, Dennis Brack (0)
19: Offered without comment… (2)
19: A quick roundup of papers looking to hire (0)
18: An in-depth look at the new-and-improved Orlando Sentinel (18)
17: ‘The Art of Being Brilliant’ coming to Lexington, Ky.; Gastonia, N.C. (1)
17: Happy birthday, Cindy Lacy (0)
17: Happy birthday, Alberto Cairo (1)
17: Another Iowa flood photo (4)
16: Papers use new software to publish high school news, yearbook supplements (0)
16: Happy birthday, Erin Cubert (2)
15: Des Moines provides heroic coverage of heroic events in Iowa (1)
14: Bids for Weather Channel still up in the air (1)
12: Rain, hail, tornadoes and floods (2)
11: Des Moines’ interactive look at a stricken neighborhood (3)
11: Happy birthday, Bryan Wendell (2)
10: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle redesign debuts today (6)
09: Kill staff illustrations? Eliminate features sections? Egads, it’s getting worse… (14)
09: Cool NBA finals stuff by LAT, Boston (1)
07: Nicole Bogdas returns to Florida — to the Orlando Sentinel (15)
06: Orlando Sentinel to be the first Trib paper redesigned under corporate mandate (7)
05: Is it the shoes? It’s gotta be the shoes… (10)
05: A belated report on Saturday’s Small-Paper Summit in Connecticut (0)
04: Happy birthday, Ryan Ford (4)
04: Happy birthday, Rachel Matthews (1)
03: Happy birthday, Gayle Grin (0)
02: Happy birthday, Ron Reason (4)
02: Happy birthday, Sara Reeves (2)
02: Happy birthday, Keith Simmons (0)
02: Happy birthday, Angie Muhs (0)

31: Bids reportedly in for The Weather Channel (1)
31: Friday night in Waterbury, Conn. (8)
30: Spotted this week on a busy D.C. street… (0)
29: Top 10 reasons to attend the Small-Paper Summit this Saturday (6)
29: Happy birthday, Katie Kunert (0)
29: Happy birthday, Joey Kirk (1)
28: Link photog Bill Manley leaving the business… to brew beer! (1)
28: Washington Post’s Mike Keegan to take a buyout (0)
28: Happy birthday, Chris Morris (1)
28: Happy birthday, Josh Gillin (1)
27: Daytona’s Denise Covert to return to Florida Today (4)
27: Beth Androuais, 59 other Mizzou students, headed to China for Olympics (2)
27: Happy birthday, John Garcia (0)
26: Virginian-Pilot observes Memorial Day with full-page gravestone rubbing (11)
26: ‘Paper Cuts’ layoff site gets mega-publicity, mega-hits (1)
26: Happy birthday, Doug Jessmer (4)
23: Another round of Indiana Jones pages (1)
23: More Indiana Jones feature treatments (3)
22: Ahhhh… (3)
22: A look at the Hartford Courant’s new citizen journalism effort (3)
22: Happy birthday, John Grimwade (0)
22: Happy birthday, Billy Kulpa (2)
21: Chinese newspapers commemorate their national days of mourning (3)
20: Kevin Wendt leaves the Merc to become editor in Huntsville, Ala. (1)
20: Doing anything fun for the new Indiana Jones movie? (13)
20: Happy birthday, Mary Ann Chick Whiteside (0)
19: Utah photog hit by javelin takes his own photo (0)
19: Arkansas company said to be interested in buying the Virginian-Pilot (6)
19: Latin American papers giving citizen journalism a go (1)
18: Happy birthday, Anders Tapola (2)
17: Happy birthday, Joey Marburger (0)
17: Happy birthday, Stephanie Guigou (1)
16: Wichita Falls illustrator/designer Clay Sisk joins Fort Myers News-Press (1)
16: Register today for the Small-Paper Summit May 31 in Connecticut (3)
15: San Antonio sports design whiz Josh Trudell to leave journalism (6)
15: Virginian-Pilot’s David Putney moves from print to online (0)
15: Montreal Gazette’s Nuri Ducassi moves to South Florida Sun-Sentinel (2)
14: Fighting the decline of classified advertising (1)
14: ‘Visually plagiarizing’ Kansas daily changes A1 format (9)
14: Happy birthday, Tim Frank (5)
13: Yukking it up over the death of print media (1)
13: Happy birthday, Darren Sanefski (3)
13: Happy birthday, Cassie Armstrong (1)
11: Happy birthday, William Couch (3)
10: K-State’s Ron Johnson moving to Indiana University (4)
09: D’oh! Who edits this stuff, anyway? (1)
08: Examiner to launch Sunday editions in three cities (0)
08: Dallas Morning News promotes Jeff Schnick to night Biz editor (5)
08: Happy birthday, Jeff Glick (6)
08: Happy birthday, Nicole Bogdas (4)
07: And yet another post about the start-up paper in Liberal, Kansas (18)
07: More about that Kansas start-up paper (7)
07: Buy today’s paper… or the cat gets it (1)
06: New daily starts up in Liberal, Kansas (13)
06: Welcome, two new little Visual Editors (1)
05: Spam from photo agencies and free-lance artists (1)
03: Student paper to go independent — and online (3)
02: Happy birthday, Ernie Smith (4)
01: Make plans now for the small-paper summit in Connecticut (3)
01: Why you should never trust Wikipedia (6)

30: Heads up, students: A roundup of items for you college-types (0)
29: Coverage of Monday’s tornadoes in Hampton Roads (0)
28: Twenty-eight interns for summer 2008 (3)
27: Coming tomorrow… (0)
26: Happy birthday to, um, me… (26)
25: Yet another (false) cry about visual plagiarism (5)
24: Heads up, designers of NFL draft pages… (2)
23: SmartNews hoping to put the ’smart’ into small papers (5)
22: egap tnorf sdrawkcab stnirp semiT-nuS (2)
22: Coming soon: Summer internship roundup (0)
21: Graphing your favorite song lyrics (4)
19: Two photojournalistic controversies (8)
18: Is no one hiring? We just hired 3, says Orlando Sentinel’s Bo Burton (4)
18: Wave of the future: Working more closely with advertising (2)
17: A visit to Dallas: Day three (3)
16: A visit to Dallas: Day two (6)
16: Student designers of the year announced (3)
16: Sunrise in Dallas (2)
16: A visit to Dallas: Day one (3)
15: Happy birthday, Claire Regan (2)
15: Happy birthday, Deborah Block (0)
14: Ewwww… (5)
14: More weird advertisments (0)
12: Martin Gee documents job reductions at the Merc (0)
11: Tacoma goes retro with Sunday A1 (0)
11: Happy birthday, Sara Quinn (3)
11: Happy birthday, Keeli Garza (1)
10: Martha Wright departs Washington Post for Midwest (2)
10: We’ll be talking about visual brilliance next week in Dallas (0)
09: Don’t look now, but we’re in the Poynter spotlight (4)
09: Happy birthday, Jennifer Sturm (4)
07: Vintage print ads — all fake; all funny (6)
04: Indy Star’s Stephen Beard adds to personal portfolio (8)
04: Friday visual journalism roundup (2)
03: Use the Gotham typeface and the voters will come (3)
03: Jon Fisch promoted at the Seattle Times (14)
03: Doug Jessmer named editor of Pinellas News (12)
02: KC Star launches new free tab (2)
02: Happy birthday, Tiffany Pease (1)
01: Newspaper chain to outsource management positions (16)
01: Happy birthday, Randy Stano (7)

31: NYT profiles Mad magazine fold-in guy Al Jaffee (1)
31: Happy birthday, Jeff Bash (0)
29: Happy birthday, Ryan Hildebrandt (0)
27: Sarasota Herald-Tribune hires Travis Ricks (11)
27: Happy birthday, Elisa Glass (0)
27: Happy birthday, Chris Kozlowski (3)
25: Dallas Morning News updates typography, headers, page width (8)
25: Sun-Sentinel kicks off graphics department blog (3)
24: Happy birthday, Gina Falcone-Rupp (1)
24: Happy birthday, Sara Davidson (0)
24: Happy Birthday, Kyle Ellis (0)
21: I hope your brackets are in better shape than mine (9)
21: ‘The Art of Being Brilliant’ coming to Dallas in April (0)
20: Happy birthday, Bob Voros (5)
20: Happy birthday, Jen Hiatt (4)
18: Who is that gorgeous couple? (0)
18: Happy birthday, Ken Marshall (4)
17: Please help a paper that’s considering a switch from Macs to PCs (13)
15: Happy birthday, Javier Zarracina (1)
14: Bandwidth cops making March Madness a little less mad this year (0)
12: A Wednesday roundup (0)
11: Covering a New York sex scandal (3)
11: William Couch moves to USA Today (4)
11: More on the sale of the Virginian-Pilot (0)
11: Anybody remember these speakers from SND/Boston? (0)
10: Is newspaper video in a creative rut? (0)
07: All I ever needed to know about newspapers, I learned from Brett Favre (1)
06: Happy birthday, Arthur Apple (4)
06: Virginian-Pilot hires designer/illustrator Brandon Stuck (3)
05: Happy birthday, Todd Bayha (0)
05: We’ll be talking solutions for small papers in May in Connecticut (7)
04: Bad boys, bad boys. Whatcha gonna do? (0)
04: Matt Mansfield takes a buyout from the San Jose Mercury News (2)
04: How much do newspapers spend on research and development? (4)
03: Happy birthday, Lisa Pazdric (2)
01: Happy birthday, Rick Tuma (2)

February 2008

29: Tim Ball is new sports design director of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (7)
29: A wonderful time in Cary and Raleigh (2)
29: Garfield is a lot better when there’s no Garfield (2)
28: On the road in Raleigh (0)
28: Happy birthday, Megan Lavey (5)
28: Happy birthday, Wes Rand (1)
27: Grey Blackwell: From graphics editor to animated cartoon genius (2)
27: More about St. Paul’s redesign (0)
26: A new look today for St. Paul’s Pioneer Press (8)
25: Thursday would be a great day to drive over to Cary, N.C. (0)
25: Here’s your chance to grill the NYT graphics director (1)
25: Interesting graphic by the NYT on movie revenues (2)
25: Happy birthday, Billy Wachsberger (3)
22: Fall and winter ‘08 internships at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (0)
22: Happy birthday, Ron Brackett (1)
20: Shooting down a spy satellite, continued… (1)
20: Happy birthday, Ji Qi (5)
19: Covering the Navy’s smackdown plans for a hurting spy satellite (5)
18: A chance to be bored in person by Charles Apple (2)
17: Happy birthday, Ashley Thomas (1)
15: A selection of Northern Illinois Univ. Shooting front pages (1)
15: Baseball been berry, berry good to me… (0)
15: Happy birthday, Rob Schneider (5)
14: Happy (belated) birthday, Josh Trudell (1)
14: What an ‘editor-not-designer’ judge thinks after the SND/29 judging (2)
14: More Valentine’s Day pages (0)
13: ‘Potomac Primary’ night graphics at The Virginian-Pilot (5)
13: We just — *SMOOTCH* — love these Valentine’s Day pages (0)
13: Jim Jennings promoted to associate publisher of Globe & Mail (2)
12: Public journalism by the Univ. of Nevada student newspaper (2)
11: Ouch! (1)
10: Happy birthday, Elizabeth Apple (14)
09: Happy birthday, Linda Shapley (2)
07: SND 29 judging is this weekend in Syracuse (0)
07: It could be five to 10 years before newspaper biz stabilizes, experts say (0)
07: Happy birthday, Derek Simmons (2)
06: A non-journalist’s view of online Super Tuesday graphics (2)
05: Strib promotes Cory Powell to managing editor (4)
05: Zell drops the F-bomb in Orlando (7)
05: A Q&A with Post-Dispatch multimedia whiz Erica Smith (3)
04: Happy birthday, Jennifer Borresen (3)
03: Giants-Pats is also the Battle of the Trademarks (0)
03: Happy birthday, Charles Gooch (4)
01: Salt Lake City abuzz with new Buzz tab (3)
01: The Onion peeled for using stock photo (0)
01: You could have heard a pen drop (3)
01: If I don’t make it back alive… (3)
01: Happy birthday, Michael Dabrowa (0)
01: Happy birthday, Nick Mrozowski (0)

January 2008

30: Now testing: VizEds version 2.0 (12)
30: Redesigning the little NFL on-screen TV bugs (2)
30: Happy birthday, Brian Immel (0)
29: Battle of the NFL season reprint books begins early (0)
29: Happy birthday, Renee Fullerton (2)
29: Happy birthday, Luke Knox (2)
29: Happy birthday, Elizabeth Kane (3)
28: Hell freezes over? WSJ considering a sports page (1)
28: A couple of campaign-oriented briefs (1)
27: Kudos for the Las Vegas Sun’s hotel fire coverage (0)
27: Happy birthday, Denise Reagan (3)
25: Happy birthday, Mike Dizon (0)
25: Happy birthday, Carrie Hoover (0)
24: Happy birthday, Julie Elman (0)
20: Happy birthday, Jeff Schnick (10)
20: Happy birthday, Yuri Victor (1)
19: Return of the Deerslayer (9)
19: Happy birthday, Kristin Lenz (4)
18: A new trend, perhaps? Raleigh paper enlarges its comics section (2)
17: Sing along! ‘Don’t know much about Geography… ‘ (5)
17: Happy birthday, Michelle Cham Yu (0)
16: A rash of ‘offensive’ photos (2)
16: Happy birthday, Josh Crutchmer (9)
16: Happy birthday, Gabe Hartwig (4)
15: Nina Mehta returns to the Indianapolis Star (4)
15: Happy birthday, Chris Soprych (7)
15: Happy birthday, Autumn Heep (0)
14: Two big news design stories from over the weekend (3)
14: Ellen Lynch moves to Orlando Sentinel (0)
14: Happy birthday, Bonita Burton (2)
14: Pilot uses frank words in coverage of its impending likely sale (0)
13: Accusations of bias abound in presidential primary presentation (3)
12: A photojournalism legend dies (1)
12: Happy birthday, Janelle Cogan (0)
11: A possible buyer for The Virginian-Pilot? (1)
11: Mental Floss’ infographic piece is too much floss, not enough mental (6)
10: Doug Jessmer resurfaces — at a small Florida weekly (8)
09: Build those breaking news Web pages and they will come (4)
09: ‘Winnie Cooper’ writes a book… about math (0)
08: (Madison) Wisconsin State Journal redesign debuted Monday (1)
08: Austin’s Don Tate hits the bigtime with childrens’ book illustration (3)
08: A couple of redesign notes (1)
08: A small paper’s touching tribute to a beloved copy editor (0)
07: Billy Kulpa hired by Rockford Register-Star (6)
06: Happy birthday, Kenny Monteith (1)
04: Happy birthday, Kris Kinkade (1)
04: And another thing… (7)
04: More on the possible sale of The Virginian-Pilot (0)
02: Virginian-Pilot parent company up for sale (4)

December 2007

31: A tribute to a great infographics staff (18)
28: Take that, Bambi! An exciting night in Virginia Beach (7)
28: Where were you when coach Woody Hayes was fired? (13)
27: Happy birthday, Tim Ball (1)
26: Happy birthday, Scott Goldman (3)
25: Here’s your post-Christmas, self-shopping list (1)
24: T’was the Night Before Christmas (1)
24: Page 1 photos lead to an easy arrest in Idaho (0)
21: Happy birthday, Eric Palm (2)
20: Happy birthday, Nina Mehta (4)
20: Happy birthday, Jon Fisch (5)
18: Michael Whitley promoted to AME at the LAT (2)
18: Happy birthday, Francie Williamson (5)
17: Mario: ‘One medium can’t replace another’ (3)
14: Happy birthday, Miranda Mulligan (5)
12: Ohio’s Nicole Davis wins Sun-Sentinel internship (0)
11: Speaking of Michigan State: Carrie Hoover moves to The Oregonian (0)
11: Happy birthday, Karl Gude (6)
10: Happy birthday, Matt Erickson (3)
09: Baltimore Sun copy desk chief loses children in house fire (1)
06: Two days in Austin, Texas (1)
04: Just call me ‘Tex’… (5)
03: Two more internships of note (0)

November 2007

30: Happy birthday, Stephen Beard (6)
28: Happy birthday, Josh Awtry (4)
27: Asbury Park photoillustration causes blown cork in governor’s office (2)
27: Dennis Bolt steps down as Santa Rosa graphics editor (4)
26: Happy birthday, Charles Schulz (2)
23: Truth in advertising? (0)
21: Happy birthday, Kenney Marlatt (1)
20: Jacksonville’s Patrick Garvin charts, then meets NFL star Fred Taylor (5)
20: More internship briefs… (0)
19: Internships, continued… (0)
16: Virginian-Pilot to combine design, graphics teams (7)
15: Happy birthday, Bill Gaspard (2)
15: Happy birthday, Jonathan Kleinow (5)
14: Who’s looking for internships? (5)
14: Sick days are no fun when you’re actually sick (6)
12: Happy birthday, Nicole Stockdale (0)
09: Black Friday Ads site offers data of questionable origin — but in an innovative way (3)
07: Happy birthday, Steve Dorsey (6)
06: Happy birthday, Xinning Huang (4)
05: Christine Crockett named design editor in Lewiston (3)
05: Ads are elbowing their way into news. This can’t be a good thing, can it? (13)
05: Big changes continue at the Merc (2)
04: Happy birthday, Andrea Martin (0)
02: Who needs Lightwave? Or, for that matter, Illustrator? (4)
01: The last Halloween post of this year (0)
01: Can you salvage an error-laden clip for your portfolio? (4)

October 2007

31: Using Google maps for online halloween decoration stories (3)
31: Halloween with the Apples (4)
31: Happy birthday, Jonathon Berlin (3)
31: Happy birthday, Mike Braun (5)
30: Lucie Lacava picked to redesign Sunday Atlanta Journal-Constitution (0)
30: More spooky halloween projects (0)
30: Happy birthday, Bill Mitchell (0)
29: Happy halloween from the Apple blog (0)
29: All the Pilot’s Miranda Mulligan wants to do is dance (3)
29: Chicago’s RedEye celebrates its fifth birthday today (1)
27: Meeting college journalists in D.C. (1)
26: Happy birthday, Brian Cragin (2)
26: Happy birthday, Reid Brown (4)
25: Tiny Hillsdale (Mich.) College Collegian relaunches Web site (2)
25: Happy birthday, Judy Le (3)
25: Happy birthday, Reagan Branham (0)
25: Happy birthday, Ellen Lynch (1)
24: Spooky pages make Halloween fun (5)
23: SND/Las Vegas launches super-helpful site (5)
22: Link hires two copy desk staffers (0)
22: For those of you who missed the ‘Helvetica’ movie at SND/Boston… (2)
20: Happy birthday, Patti McCracken (3)
19: Yep, I’m speaking again — this time in D.C. (0)
19: So, what did you think about SND/Boston? (0)
18: Happy birthday, Teresa Kriegsman (3)
17: Virginian-Pilot re-hires former sports copy editor/designer (4)
17: Virginian-Pilot promotes Janelle Cogan to assistant copy desk chief (0)
17: RedEye’s Chris Courtney multiplies. News at 11. (1)
16: Still recovering from Boston? Me, too. (2)
15: A few more stray photos from SND (5)
15: Photos from the Tuesday/Wednesday shows in Atlanta (0)
15: Teaching infographics for Egyptian journalists (2)
15: A Saturday morning walk in the park and through Beacon Hill (1)
14: What happened to our blogging on Saturday? (0)
12: Strange new promotional campaign? (1)
12: Weather here in Boston: Clearing but windy (0)
12: Extreme sports (0)
12: Lunch with Staten Island (0)
12: This place is crowded (0)
12: Following up on San Antonio’s Dresden Dolls promotion (6)
12: Where are all the job announcements? (0)
12: Never intentionally mug for a camera (1)
12: SmartNews’ Jim McBee is in da house (2)
12: Fenway tonight? (0)
12: A long week? (0)
11: Recruiting alert: Newsday seeks two visual managers (0)
11: Another recruiting alert: The Globe & Mail (0)
11: Networking 101 (2)
11: What to do while you’re in Boston (0)
11: Thursday morning briefs (0)
11: Arrival in Boston and everything is cool (0)
11: More about recruiting for San Antonio (1)
10: Wednesday morning notes (0)
10: Do newspapers really ‘get it’ online? No, say these two writers. (2)
10: Happy birthday, Tiffany Schwarz (0)
09: A successful afternoon discussing creativity in Atlanta (0)
09: San Antonio to go punk in Boston (3)
09: A sign of the times? (1)
09: Starting my trip to Boston a little early (2)
09: Happy birthday, Poh Si Teng (1)
09: Happy birthday, Laura Ruel (1)
08: Happy birthday, Nancy Reese (0)
06: Happy birthday, Ken Wright (4)
05: Fort Myers News-Press named ‘innovator of the year’ by APME (1)
05: More SND/Boston news (4)
04: Happy birthday, Dave Kordalski (6)
04: Happy birthday, Mark Marturello (3)
03: SF Chronicle’s Randy Greenwell is new Virginian-Pilot photo director (2)
03: Model for the future of newspapers: The St. Pete Times? (0)
03: Happy birthday, Kris Viesselman (0)
03: Happy birthday, Tim Goheen (0)
02: Hartford Courant hires one, promotes one (0)
01: Atlanta J-C has no metro editor; no sports editor (6)

September 2007

29: Happy birthday, Steve Ravenscraft (1)
28: Minnesota’s Anna Berkin hired by Florida Times-Union (0)
28: Happy birthday, Cliff Page (7)
28: Curt Hazlett writes on modern biz page design (0)
28: SmartNews to auction funny buttons to aid antiques vendors (0)
27: Bend, Oregon’s Renee Fullerton moves to the Arizona Star (4)
27: Boston to be bulging with arts activities the week of the workshop (0)
27: National Post redesign launches with vertical nameplate, section headers (8)
27: Newspaper innovation expert takes issue with NAA promotional campaign (3)
27: Yahoo+newspapers deal reportedly looking much better than expected (0)
26: Happy birthday, Sam Hundley (1)
26: Happy birthday, Ashley Mills (1)
26: Link promotes two (1)
25: The coolest idea I’ve seen recently (0)
25: Fayetteville’s SmartNews newspaper office burns (0)
22: Happy birthday, Kevin Hand (4)
21: Nick Masuda to help compile Alan Jacobson’s daily BFD critiques (4)
20: Don’t let these guys sit together (2)
20: Ft. Lauderdale hires sports designer Brandon Ferrill (0)
19: Designing spectacular inside sports pages with Orlando’s Chris Olds (2)
19: Craig Larimer promoted to AME in Allentown (0)
18: Does size really matter? (0)
18: SND/Boston folks offer another option for hotel rooms (6)
18: Happy birthday, Jann Nyffeler (1)
17: Merc’s Jonathon Berlin moves to Chicago Tribune (0)
17: Happy birthday, Jacqueline Wu (2)
16: Happy birthday, Patrick Clarke (3)
16: Happy birthday, Dave Horn (0)
14: Happy birthday, Robb Montgomery (12)
13: Happy birthday, Nicole Neuman Hughes (0)
13: Happy birthday, Jon Wile (2)
12: Going to SND/Boston? Here’s what you’ll need to know. (10)
11: Tacoma’s Amanda Raymond moves to Seattle Times (5)
11: Happy birthday, Timothy Wong (0)
10: Melissa Angle moves to Atlanta Journal-Constitution (14)
10: Richard Curtis looks back on 25 years of USA Today (5)
07: Happy birthday, Rogelio Aranda (1)
07: Happy birthday, Dana Oppenheim (0)
06: Tim Ball begins his design adventure in Thailand (0)
05: The search for a working business model takes another serious blow (3)
04: Canadian Metro launches ‘tune-up’ redesign (0)
04: Happy birthday, David Pratt (0)
04: From Newsweek to campus: A Q&A with Karl Gude (1)
03: Happy birthday, Harrison Goodman (0)

August 2007

29: Prismacolors in the battlefields of Afghanistan: A Q&A with Richard Johnson (0)
27: Is there life after visuals? Yes, says the Pilot’s Larry Printz (1)
26: Happy birthday, Dennis Bolt (4)
24: End your week with a geekazoid festival (3)
23: Salt Lake Tribune’s mine disaster graphics (2)
22: Newspaper industry conducts a yard sale (0)
22: Two new collections of rare comic strips published (1)
21: Happy birthday, Allisence Chang (3)
20: Editorial cartoon has Jacksonville readers upset (8)
20: Happy birthday, Mark Friesen (3)
20: Happy birthday, Bill Bootz (3)
18: Happy birthday, John Earle (2)
17: Happy birthday, Patrick Garvin (2)
16: ‘The Intern’/Boston candidates announced (0)
16: Sarah Franquet departs Charlotte; Robin Johnston is new design director (2)
16: Happy birthday, Brandon Stuck (3)
16: Happy birthday, Michelle Valenzuela (6)
15: Happy birthday, Matt Mansfield (4)
14: Memo to Kordalski: How to care for your new Tribble (2)
14: Top 10 U.S. newspaper web sites (0)
14: Orlando Sentinel lands Tory Hargro (4)
14: Happy birthday, Gary Larson (1)
14: Atlanta J-C to launch new free broadsheet this fall (2)
13: Book tour overshadowed by looming prison sentence (0)
13: Behind the scenes at Weather Central (0)
12: Something to build in your spare time (0)
12: Doug Jessmer leaves newspapers (11)
11: Citation for overuse of puns in a story (2)
10: Video: The Original Design Gangsta (2)
10: Kristin Lenz, Robert Davis join Boston Globe (1)
10: Getting young people into newspapers (0)
09: Having fun in print with those Simpsons movie avatars (2)
09: Post-modern techniques of visualizing data (0)
08: Nicole Bogdas moves to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (11)
08: Tacky advertisements (1)
07: Merc begins massive redesign/rethink effort (0)
07: Amid breaking news deadlines, a kind gesture (0)
07: You’re in the LAT Opinion pages? Very impressive, Mr. Kotter… (1)
06: StrangeMaps: The little blog that could (0)
04: Happy birthday, Deb Withey (2)
03: Bridge collapse day two: Finding the local angle (9)
02: Visual journalism tells compelling story in Minneapolis (7)
01: The Earth moves for Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal (6)

31: Memory lane is paved with old business cards (4)
30: Really bad advertising juxtapositions (6)
29: British newspaper sites reviewed… by a reader (3)
29: Interesting solar eclipse map (1)
27: Happy birthday, Chris Rukan (5)
26: Link’s David Putney to rejoin the Virginian-Pilot (2)
26: New biography out on comic strip artist Milton Caniff (0)
25: A report on the size of newspaper home pages (3)
25: Of Monopoly, Operation and other visual cliches (2)
24: Free N.C. daily celebrates first month in print (3)
24: Happy birthday, Howard Finberg (5)
23: Doh! Waiting for The Simpsons Movie (8)
23: Freep’s John Fleming leaves the business (2)
22: Happy birthday, Denise Covert (13)
21: Happy birthday, Garry Trudeau (1)
18: The power of a local editorial cartoonist (2)
18: Bill Bootz to Iowa’s Quad City Times (1)
18: Notre Dame fights back in battle for internships (1)
17: Another example of retouching fashion photos (0)
17: A weird set of assembly instructions (1)
16: The versatile newspaper rack (0)
13: Allentown AME Jeff Lindenmuth to retire (1)
12: Orlando Sentinel goes furniture shopping; lands William Couch (6)
12: Today’s iPhone testimonial (4)
11: Roanoke AME/Presentation promoted to Managing Editor (1)
10: Cartoonist Doug Marlette killed in car crash (0)
09: Barbie DeSoto to join Salt Lake Tribune (5)
09: Happy birthday, Joy Mayer (0)
05: AP graphics director goes hot doggin’ (0)
05: Happy birthday, Bill Watterson (13)
04: What I did on summer vacation (0)
03: Happy birthday, Chris Courtney (3)
01: Happy birthday, Ken Mowry (3)

28: Happy birthday, Martin Gee (7)
26: Happy birthday, Lindi Daywalt Feazel (2)
24: Southern hospitality at the SND/Atlanta quickcourse (1)
24: Happy birthday, Ashley Dinges (3)
22: Internet branding company in NYC seeks designer (0)
21: Happy birthday, Lori Kelley (1)
20: Rockford tackles the tough issues (0)
20: Cute video (1)
17: Happy Fathers’ Day (3)
15: Erin Steele joins Dallas Morning News (0)
14: Jim McBee moves to SmartNews (6)
12: