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First gold medals awarded
As the snow begins to fall on Day Two of the 31st Best of News Design™ Competition, we’ve learned there were at least 16 silver medals awarded late Saturday night. The first two gold medals of the...
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The envelope, please…
By the time the Academy Awards start, the movies themselves seem to be almost an afterthought. Oscar night is the annual shareholders meeting of Hollywood, Inc. and involves the same sort of weird...
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The story behind The Denver Post photo Pulitzer
In February, Craig F. Walker of the Denver Post earned a gold medal in SND’s Best of News Design competition for his story chronicling the journey of Ian Fisher from high school student to Iraq War...
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Free (and fabulous) software online with Karl Gude
Karl Gude discusses free software online No Photoshop? No Illustrator? No problem. We all know the industry is in a budget crunch, and new software is probably nowhere in sight for your newsroom. But...
View ArticleBecome a photo editor…fast.
“Any photo editors in here?” he asked. Silence. “Good.” And that was good for a reason. Jeff Neumann’s presentation was focused on how to edit photos when you come from design. Neumann, the lead...
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SND Photo Illo Throwdown winners reveal their work process
SND asked people to show off their sick Photoshop skills. And now three judges have chosen the winners. The rules? Download a PSD file of 26 seemingly unrelated layers and make a coherent, crazy,...
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Poynter’s Sara Quinn teaches about “Photo Editing in the Digital Age” at SND...
Our next amazing teacher will help us navigate the challenges of working with visuals across many different platforms with: Photo Editing in the Digital Age How can we give great photojournalism the...
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Meet 2011 College Designer of the Year Jason Willis
Yes, Jason Willis sleeps. This is the answer to one of the burning questions the design students in my class had after looking at the online portfolio of SND’s 2011 College Designer of the Year. Willis...
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SI Photographers Discuss Olympics
Olympics photographers discuss their approaches and strategies for shooting the Games, as well as historic Olympics images. Forgive the link instead of the imbed, but the Sports Illustrated Olympics...
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PHOTOS: Scenes surrounding the Olympic Games
.post-18397 .thumbnail{display:none;} Taylor Bussick, Valerie Carnevale, Bobby Ellis, Corey Ohlenkamp and Emily Theis are among the 40 students from Ball State University who travelled to London for...
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Election 2012: How Las Vegas Sun photographer Sam Morris makes images of the...
Sam Morris on photographing the president: How do you shoot candidates in essentially the same, controlled situation time after time and keep it interesting? First, I get bored. Not with the event,...
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Election 2012: How Las Vegas Sun photographer Steve Marcus makes images of...
Steve Marcus on shooting campaign events featuring Governor Mitt Romney and Congressman Paul Ryan: I don’t really have an “approach” per se, more like some basic strategies. I shot the line outside the...
View ArticleDesigners: Restrain yourself
Growing up, my mom always told me to KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. And although I should have been slightly offended at my mother calling me stupid, I took her advice to heart. Listening to Julie Elman...
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The New York Times AME/photography on today’s front page
The Wednesday, November 27 front page of The New York Times. This morning, The New York Times published a story on the so-called Jewish breast cancer gene. The front page of the print edition — and the...
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The quandary of graphic photography (Warning: disturbing images)
Commentary You see the news and for 30 seconds you’re devastated. Two journalists are murdered during a live shot on a local affiliate’s morning show. Maybe you catch their names (Alison Parker and...
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The Guts: A closer look at MSNBC’s Geography of Poverty
MSNBC’s Geography of Poverty project is a highly visual look at poverty across the country. Graphics editor Mina Liu and data visualization editor Sam Petulla give us a behind the scenes look at how it...
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Cover Story: New York Times’‘The scars of the game’
The New York Times recently published a multi-page print presentation of reporter Tim Rohan‘s yearlong look at Tommy John surgery in Major League Baseball. ‘The scars of the game’ looks at how...
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