Archive for July, 2008

Gratitude. Gratitude. 21 cards later, I’m surely forgetting at least a dozen more people that I need to thank.  I really could not have done Poynter on my own–that’s kind of the whole point, right? I took my indy.com editor out for lunch yesterday. She’s one of the main reasons I was so excited to [...]

Dear Ron, Dear Mario, Dear Roy: Hey, thanks for Poynter. Mario Garcia and Roy P. Clark  sit with the fellows in The Great Hall wrapping up the end of a great summer. Ron Reason (left), helped begin the fellows program is taking a photo Mario Garcia (center) and Roy P. Clark (right), Poynter’s founding fathers. [...]

Jahi Chikwendiu over in Washinton at The Post did a fanastic session on photo journalism and storytelling. There’s something about people like him. We had a wonderful opportunity to talk about traveling and journalism. And how, as a designer, do you do it if you’re fresh out of college. Not quite ready to be speaking [...]

I would love to do creative exercises in the newsroom. Sara gave us an assortment of letter noodles. During a grids and type session we tinkered and spelled out little words. We then took those words and used them as a title for a magazine cover that we then designed. Worked different photographers and designers [...]

Link: similie.mit.edu Matt Waite came in from the St. Pete Times and spent some great one on one time with me talking data driven stories. So many opportunities, so many numbers. It reminds me of that Wired story in the End of Science issue that says sometimes you really have to start taking numbers and [...]