Cinematic Summer Style
We bet you’ve never seen a fashion spread like this one, brought to you by Style editor Nathalie Atkinson and illustrator Kagan Macleod.
The commitment to illustrations by the National Post continues to astonish me. Any newspaper that still, first of all, is committed to doing any kind of fashion spread would not even consider to do it as an illustration. Why would they? Fashion spreads are typically carefully crafted photo shoots - that’s the norm.
Well thank God the National Post is anything but normal. I can’t wait to see the rest of the spread.
(via nationalpost)
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After The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel endorsed Scott Walker in his recall campaign, readers responded in kind, filling up an entire page with letters criticizing the decision. You can read them here. (ht Patch’s Recall Central, via Arena of the Unwell)
I love the ol’ Sentiment.
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Journalism took a break in Greece today — many media outlets are on strike, in protest of wage cuts.
Journalists in crisis-hit Greece have gone on strike to protest pay cuts, rising unemployment, and to press for the signing of new collective wage contracts.
The 24-hour strike stopped all TV and radio news broadcasts Monday, while most internet news portals were not updating their content. No newspapers will be published Tuesday.
Could you imagine if the news just … stopped one day? Not just one newspaper — but nearly all of them? Pretty crazy. Best of luck to the journalists who put themselves on the line today.
I can’t imagine when it could get that bad. Could it ever happen here? Where the cuts get so deep at our struggling papers that we, all of us, decide to go on strike. I dunno.
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Fronts: Memorial Day
Some papers decided to use their big Memorial Day stories on Sunday, while some others waited until today. Either way, almost every paper did something today to remind it’s readers that we should remember our veterans and those who are currently serving our country. Here are a few that caught my eye:
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Not only is that picture great, but they used it to great effect in the skybox. I’d definitely stop and pick up a copy.
The Omaha World-Herald
This skybox is so good I want to live inside of it. I guess it’s not really a skybox, but rather just a massive package where they were able to fit their nameplate inside. It doesn’t feel forced though, and unlike lots of other papers, the photo they are using feels respected with the content placed over it. Sidenote: I wonder what they mean when they say “Sunrise edition.” Do they still print early and late editions for suburbs? Good for them if they do.
South Bend Tribune
I saw lots of pictures with kids and flags today, but the South Bend Tribune wins the cutest picture award.
Idaho Stateman
A couple of papers also ran full page poster treatments today. I thought some worked, others not so much. Other papers were also big on running names of local veterans. The Idaho Statesmen did both with a full page roll call of lost servicemen and women. I think they did the best because they didn’t try to get too fancy with it. Do they all fit in a modular shape? Yup. Headline and dek make sense? Yup. Throw in some refers to inside and a nice black background and we’re good to go.
It’s worth mentioning lots of papers looked great today. The Indianapolis Star and San Jose Mercury had great stories and played them well today, but in a much more traditional sense. Also, Mondays are usually the slowest day circulation wise for newspapers, so it was fun to see some places take a risk to turn up the volume on their covers. On the other hand, way more papers didn’t do anything aside from putting a flag in their skybox and calling it a day, so that’s disheartening.
The Times Picayune crew at Molly’s, celebrating the paper’s life rather than mourning its death.
I’ve been so optimistic about the future of print journalism, but this seriously has me feeling shitty. The Times-Picayune is a great American classic newspaper and I’m sad to see it go. It seems like Advance is just making a mess out of EVERYTHING.
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sndcle, take two: Get lit
To whet your appetite for the 34th SND workshop, our second promotional video is a conversation about creativity with several members of The PD visual staff. Gotta love the quotes in this 90-second spot, including:
‘Yes’ is a real important word for creativity,
‘cause ‘no’ will just pee on your fire.Dale Omori, Andrea Levy, producers
- See the first video, “More than Ink,” here.
- Registered for sndcle yet? What are you waiting for? Register now.
I’m so lit, I’m my own worst enemy.
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New Orleans’ Times-Picayune cutting back on print editions, will focus on digital
Major newspaper downsizes to three “more robust” issues per week: The New Orleans Times-Picayune, the largest newspaper in Louisiana, will downsize and stop publishing a print edition daily, moving many of their resources to online-only publishing and probably cutting jobs along the way. This isn’t the first time the paper’s gone digital-only. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the city, forcing the paper to come out with a digital-only PDF for three days, because their printing presses were down. Eventually, the printing presses went back up, but the spirit of the paper never went down. Let’s hope for their community’s sake that these changes don’t strip the community of that spirit. (above, today’s cover, via Newseum)
Source: nola.com
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A Girl and Her Room
The Daily Beast’s Lizzie Crocker reviews an exhibit of photos by Rania Matar at Umbrage Gallery in Brooklyn. See more of Matar’s photos on The Daily Beast.
Teenage girls in their castles, er, bedrooms.
Cool stuff. I’m always inspired by photojournalists and making sure their work is presented in way that will engage the reader in the best way possible.
Source: picturedept
Pomp and circumstance
Special sections, published on various dates
Andrea Levy, illustrator
Andrea has illustrated all eight of The Plain Dealer’s Senior Standout section fronts, starting with the first in the spring of 2002. Unfortunately, the project lost sponsorship for a few years (2009, 2010 and 2011) but this year, Medical Mutual stepped up to bring it back as a section. And Andrea stepped up to illustrate it.
As it should be.
See the entire 2012 section here.
copyright 2012
My favorites are the rain one and the abstract painting. Andrea Levy y u so awesome at life?
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