To round out my final semester of undergraduate school, my web design class required a final multimedia project. The project needed to be journalistic in nature with a story about something that had impact on the community. What resulted was … Continue reading
Category Archives: Newspapers
New website coming
It’s been a while. I’ve since graduated and began my life as a freelancer. You’ll see the fruits of the past 4 months pretty soon. I’ve had about a project per month and I’m just finishing up two of them. … Continue reading
Practicing what I preach
After having gone on numerous rants about how awesome European news design is and having confirmed my love by actually visiting Europe this summer (and therefor seeing these papers in my hands), I have finally made the plunge. After seeing … Continue reading
Tribune tactics create heated discussion
Over at the Charles Apple Blog, a report that Apple put up about some scary Tribune production tactics has caused a huge stir. Seventy-seven comments and counting, this is clearly an issue no one should miss. My take: I don’t … Continue reading
Adopt-a-multimedia journalist part 2
This weblog’s existence can be credited to Bryan Murley, my Multimedia Journalism professor at Eastern Illinois University. I say this because a weblog is a requirement of that class. As such, we (the students of the class) have a few … Continue reading
Fame and Fortune
Earlier this morning I was mentioned on the Charles Apple blog. Charles must be an early riser because I was unaware of this until 9:30 a.m. when my Communications Law professor, Dr. James Tidwell, congratulated me. So caught off guard, … Continue reading
Adopt-a-multimedia journalist
This weblog’s existence can be credited to Bryan Murley, my Multimedia Journalism professor at Eastern Illinois University. I say this because a weblog is a requirement of that class. As such, we (the students of the class) have a few … Continue reading
Monitor introduces Sunday 'Print Edition Exclusives'
Well, at least someone is trying something different. Hopefully the Monitor publishes the results of this experiment. My guess: No one will care. Beginning this Sunday, we are going to begin reversing that trend a bit. From now on, each … Continue reading
Inspiration of the moment #1
I believe this blog is both one part news industry and one part graphic design. I find that most graphic design blogs do not cover news design and news design blogs do not cover the outside world of traditional graphic … Continue reading
Great site worth looking at (edit)
(Edit: From my understanding, the difference between Blurb and Lulu is their focus. Blurb mostly focuses on photography and Lulu focuses mostly on text-based books. They can both do either, though.) Blurb is an on-demand self-publishing tool and website. Similar … Continue reading