Today’s front page launches the new look. Click image twice to view entire page. Update: See an expanded gallery of page design images from the first two weeks of the redesign. [TAMPA, Oct. 12, 2010] The Tampa Tribune debuts some new design elements and added content today (Oct. 12, 2010). Media General hired me in [...]
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Tampa Tribune unveils design, content changes today
Posted by Ron Reason on October 12, 2010
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2010/10/12/tampa-trib-unveils-design-content-changes-today/
Creative Loafing relaunch, Issue 2 highlights
. [ATLANTA] The second issue of a relaunch always brings tweaks and adjustments, and a creative energy that often the heat of launch week might not allow. Such is the case with the new look for alt weekly Creative Loafing. Here are a couple of section openers that really caught my eye. . . They [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on June 23, 2010
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2010/06/23/creative-loafing-relaunch-issue-2-highlights/
Relaunch sharpens ‘watchdog’ role
While The Standard had always had a reputation as being a government “watchdog” in this important emerging – and troubled – democracy, the redesign seems to be framing this role in a new, clear light.
Posted by Ron Reason on August 24, 2009
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2009/08/24/how-relaunch-sharpens-watchdog-role/
Journalists, you’ve got troubles?
Here’s an inspirational reality check
Update: This item was posted Aug. 2, 2009. Since that time, NEXT successfully launched its daily edition, and recently celebrated its 500th week of publishing on Sunday! Congrats to all there. I’ve told the story of Ruona and her dad dozens of times, and whenever I hit a rough spot with my U.S. papers, I [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on August 2, 2009
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2009/08/02/reality-check-from-a-training-participant/
A newsroom to admire
[Santa Fe, NM] In more than 20 years of visits to newsrooms around the world, I’ve seen it all, in terms of work environments – but the typical newsroom is the one you see in the movies, desks stacked with papers, perhaps a hodge-podge of cubicles, offices and workflow adapted with a bit of inelegance [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on May 27, 2009
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2009/05/27/a-newsroom-to-admire/
Newsroom Visit: The Harvard Crimson student paper
[CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] Enjoyed a visit this week with the editors of The Harvard Crimson, whose redesign I directed a few years back. No time like the present to see how this classic, sturdy redesign has fared, and to see what plans if any were in store to move it forward. A few observations of note: [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on May 6, 2009
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2009/05/06/newsroom-visit-the-harvard-crimson/
Measure of success:
Proof is in the pages
AND, A 22% CIRCULATION INCREASE! * Nothing pleases a consultant more than seeing marked growth in the design and editing of a client newspaper at the six-month mark, when the stress of launch is well behind and everyone should be hitting his stride. I have had the chance to review a number of weeks of [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on February 8, 2009
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2009/02/08/measure-of-success-proof-is-in-the-pages/
In the newsroom, when news breaks out
[Nairobi, Kenya] There’s nothing quite like being in a newsroom when news breaks, and that’s one thing I miss about life as a full-time journalist. As a consultant, I have to take that excitement as I can get it, when on site working with my client news organizations. My current visit with The Standard in [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on January 29, 2009
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2009/01/29/in-the-newsroom-when-news-breaks-out/
Newsroom as a blank slate:
designing for a multimedia future
Today I had a chance to visit the brand-new newsroom of a client, shown above. A few desks from the circulation department are currently sort of squatting in the space, but will be cleared out soon, leaving quite a large open area which the newsroom will occupy. It seems almost the size of a football [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on January 28, 2009
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2009/01/28/newsroom-as-a-blank-slatedesigning-for-a-multimedia-future/
Designing in Africa: What’s that like?
[Lagos, Nigeria] I have worked on redesigns or conducted training programs in about 25 countries, but no destination has elicited the “wow” factor like Africa, among people who hear about my work. I have worked with The Standard group in Nairobi, Kenya, for almost two years now, and return on Jan. 19, ’09 for two [...]
Posted by Ron Reason on December 19, 2008
http://ronreason.com/designwithreason/2008/12/19/designing-in-africa-whats-that-like/