Charles Apple

Herman Manson — a media columnist for South Africa’s BizCommunity Marketing & Media — interviewed your not-so-humble blogger this weekend.

He asked me about my thoughts on the state of visual journalism and on the effects online journalism have had on print.

Herman also asked me a lot of South African-related questions: My opinion of the design of South African papers, for instance, and on the importance for South African papers to contribute their front pages to the Newseum — especially during an event like the World Cup. The managing editor of BizCommunity Marketing & Media, Simone Puterman, tells me she’s inserting additional plugs on behalf of the Newseum into her publications.

The interview is online, as you can see above. Added degree of irony: An advertisement for Adobe’s Creative Suite appears across the top of the page. How come Adobe won’t advertise with VizEds or the Society for News Design?

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Find the BizCommunity Marketing & Media web site here. Read my Q&A here.

If you have any doubt as to whether or not Twitter can be an important tool for journalism, let that doubt be resolved today.

Canadian TV reporter Steve Paikin witnessed a peaceful demonstration of the G20 last night in Toronto. Granted, there are riots and all sorts of thug-like activity going on there. But the folks involved in this particular protest were peacefully resisting, Paikin reports.

But then the police moved in. And brutality ensued. Paikin reported from the scene, as it unfolded, via Twitter. While thousands clung to every word.

A sampling:

• here come the cops again. weapons drawn. ppl sitting again. middle of esplanade
• police in full riot gear moving closer. ppl still sitting in middle of street
• crowd surrounded. cops on both sides now
• don’t mind saying it…this is scary. one dumb person on either side & this could get dangerous.
• suddenly 20 cops is now 100
• can’t tell what kin[d] of weapons are being pointed. can’t be live rounds, can it? new riot squad now here. why? this is peaceful.

And that’s before he was escorted away by police, only to witness another reporter brutally beaten by police.

Run over to Open File to read Steve Silberman’s reconstruction of the whole thing.

Find Paikin’s Twitter feed here.

A couple of today’s front pages, illustrating some of the rioting going on in Toronto this weekend:

On the left is the Toronto Star, circulation 335,680, with a huge, poster-sized photo by staffer Lucas Oleniuk.

On the right is the Toronto Sun, circulation 166,123, with lead art by staffer Stan Behal.

The attitude here in the U.S. regarding the World Cup match Saturday — in which Team USA embarrassed itself by sleeping through a 2-1 loss to Ghana — can best be summed up by this little headline atop today’s New York Post:

Oh, that’s funny. It probably shouldn’t be. But it is. Average daily circulation for the Post is 525,004.

The Daily News of New York City — circulation 535,059 — opted for a pun headline:

From what I’ve seen at the Newseum today, not many papers put the World Cup on page one today. The Review-Journal of Las Vegas — circulation 170,123 — showed fans watching yet another missed U.S. goal on television:

The paper did a great job of broadening the story to address the apparent increase of the popularity of soccer in the U.S. The picture is by staffer John Locher.

The Herald News of Paterson, N.J. ran a huge AP photo of U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard:

The Desert Sun of Palm Springs, Calif. — circulation 46,856 — also threw a spotlight on Howard:

The photo is by Rick Bowmer of the Associated Press.

A number of papers chose to lead with a picture of U.S. player Maruce Edu lying on the field after the final whistle. Here is the Miami Herald:

The photo is by Getty’s Franck Fife. Average daily circulation for the Herald is 191,873.

The Star Tribune of Minneapolis — circulation 295,438 — chose a similar shot by Ivan Sekretarev of the Associated Press…

…as did the Burlington County Times of Willingboro, N.J., circulation 31,649 (please note the pun in the overline)…

…and the Record of Stockton, Calif., circulation 42,488:

Stockton, in particular, deserves extra kudos for the series of fan shots across the top of its soccer package. Three of the quasi-mugs are from the Associated Press; one is from the Dallas Morning News.

And the Express-News of San Antonio, Texas, also went with a picture of a prone Edu, shot by Stuart Frank of Getty Images:

In particular, that secondary art by staffer Lisa Krantz — of fans who apparently took this match waay too seriously — is striking:

More striking, in fact, than the U.S. team was Saturday. Ba-dum Bum.

Average daily circulation for the Express News is 152,156.

And a few papers chose to strip the Cup across the top of A1 today. Here’s the Bee of Fresno, Calif. — circulation 126,398:

The Kansas City Star went the strip route with an action shot, weaving its nameplate behind the net and around the objects in the photo:

Average daily circulation for the Star is 210,000.

The Journal Star of Peoria — circulation 61,028 — went with yet another Ghana pun:

While the News-Press of St. Joseph, Mo. — circulation 29,295 — played up an interesting fan reaction photo, shot in Houston by Johnny Hanson of the Associated Press:

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TODAY’S INTERNATIONAL PAGES

There weren’t a lot of World Cup pages posted today at the Newseum. But the pages that were, were downright brilliant. Especially compared to what we’ve seen over the past few days.

Uruguay defeated South Korea 2-1 in a driving rain in the opening Round of 16 match Saturday. Here is today’s El Pais of Montevideo with a huge, poster-front photo by Gerardo Pérez:

The headline says, obviously:

The hero

In South Korea, here’s how Chosun Ilbo of Seoul played the loss:

In particular, I like the little graphic showing how South Korea scored its one goal:

I suspect there are a lot of cool graphics happening out there. We’re just not seeing them because they rarely make it to A1.

Here is the Segye Times, also of Seoul, with an extraordinary page-one photo:

Wow. The fans cheer their team as they trudge off the field. Wonderful stuff.

UPDATE: Amy — a blog reader in the U.K. who speaks Korean — writes:

I took a look at that photo credit for Segye Times. It just says it’s from Yonhap News which is a wire service. Yonhap News didn’t have a photographer credited to that photo.

And the headlines roughly translate to:

We were happy, we applaud their tears.
You fought well Taekuk Warriors, “You gave us hope.”

Thanks, Amy!

And that’s all I have from today’s papers…

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SATURDAY’S FRONT PAGES

Friday was the final day of group play; the final day that saw four matches.

The first match of the day was a 3-0 win by Ivory Coast over North Korea. No pages were posted to the Newseum from either country.

The other morning match was the big showdown in Durban between Portugal and Brazil. While the Durban Mercury sure did a swell job of greeting fans in town for the game, the match itself, unfortunately, didn’t live up to the hype — it ended in a 0-0 tie.

Portuguese front pages were rather uninspired Saturday. Perhaps they’re saving their ink for Tuesday, when Portugual takes on Spain in the Field of 16.

Jornal de Notícias of Porto led with an unusual crop of an photo by António Sim?es of Global Images:

Lisbon’s Público ran a smallish action shot by Yves Herman of Reuters:

Díario de Notícias of Madeira gave huge play to a photo shot at that same moment by Daniel Dal Zonnaro of EPA:

Brazilian papers contribute their front pages much more regularly to the Newseum, giving us a much better feel for how papers there played the game on A1.

It also helps that Brazilians are nuts for soccer, evidently. And I mean that in a good way.

Correio of Salvador led A1 with a nice action shot by AFP’s Roberto Candia of the winning goal of an unsuccessful goal:

Diário do Alto Tietê of Suzaro also ran an action shot — by Divulgação — but allowed the player’s head and ball soccer ball to flop out of the photo for a little more visual interest:

Sao Paulo’s Jornal da Tarde featured one of the better action shots I’ve seen, by Jonne Roriz of AE:

And this lead art by AFP’s Fabrice Cofrini afront Saturday’s O Globo of Rio de Janerio made me laugh out loud:

Not the world’s greatest picture. But amusing.

Diário Catarinense of Florinópolis went for a very tight, dramatic crop of an AFP picture by Karim Jaafar:

Folha of Sao Paulo took an action shot by France Press’ Carl Souza and built a centerpiece around it using copy blocks, brackets and a little cartoon illustration:

Extra of Rio de Janerio also used a Karim Jaafar AFP picture — a particularly static one, in fact — and tried to bring it to life with lots of yellow tint, quotes and a breakout box showing pairings for the Round of 16:

Agora of Sao Paulo ran this amusing picture by Antonio Scorza of France Press:

The headline says:

Goal? Not angry with prayer

Jornal Vs of Sao Paulo focused on the yellow cards given out seemingly indiscriminately by officials during various matches:

A Notícia of Joinville created a photoillustration to show the teams Brazil might have to go through in order to make it to the final:

And Lance of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janerio filled page one with one of the more interesting brackets you’ll ever see. Ken Marshall, if you’re out there: This one’s for you, buddy:

In the afternoon matches, Switzerland and Honduras also played to a 0-0 draw, eliminating both teams from further competition.

Zeitung of Basel built its A1 around this interesting photo from the Associated Press:

Tages Anzeiger of Zurich focused on fans back home watching on big-screen TVs:

That picture is by staffer Dominique Meienberg.

And Spain defeated Chile 2-1 Friday afternoon, but both teams advanced anyway — to much more interesting Round of 16 matches, in fact: Chile faces Brazil on Monday while Spain faces Portugal on Tuesday.

Las Últimas Noticias of Santiago was definitely looking ahead to the Brazil match with this amusing headline:

The Google Translator on that one:

So you want to do with Brazil

It’s a little rough, but the sentiment is clear enough. The wonderful photo is by Carlos Catalán Zencovich.

But Spanish A1 displays were surprisingly uninspired. Here is Diario de Sevilla of Seville, using an EFE photo by Juan Carlos Cárdenas…

La Vanguardia of Barcelona, with lead art by Getty’s Jasper Juinen…

…and Madrid’s El País, also with Getty lead art:

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Are you doing anything interesting for the World Cup? Send me PDFs, please.

Previous World Cup coverage, here in the blog:

• Sunday, June 6: Preparing readers for the World’s Cup
• Monday, June 7: Monday’s World Cup pages
• Wednesday, June 8: World Cup pages from South Africa
• Thursday, June 9: Talking soccer graphics with Konstantinos Antonopoulos
• Thursday, June 9: Tooting horns for the World Cup
• Friday, June 10: Opening day pages
• Saturday, June 11: The front page of Saturday’s Johannesburg paper
• Saturday, June 11: The most fun I’ve seen yet on a World Cup page
• Sunday, June 12: U.S. Cup fronts after the tie with England weren’t so gracious
• Wednesday, June 16: More Cup pages from South Africa and around the world
• Friday, June 18: The Mercury of Durban, South Africa, and its stunning “twinning” project
• Saturday, June 19: Advance pages and graphics from South Africa’s Sunday national papers Rapport and City Press
• Saturday, June 19: World Cup pages from Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
• Tuesday, June 22: An international competition in which to enter your World Cup presentations
• Tuesday, June 22: Front pages from South Africa and the world
• Thursday, June 24: U.S. papers celebrate big ‘overtime’ win (and world papers)
• Thursday, June 24: A four-page, all-Portuguese language pullout by the Mercury of Durban
• Saturday, June 26: Pages from South Africa and around the world