Best in Design: Lessons from SND Competition 2010

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Course Overview

Title:
Best in Design: Lessons from SND Competition 2010
Type:
Webinar
Cost:
$27.95
Originally Broadcast On:
March 23, 2010
Time Estimate:
One hour

This Webinar is $9.95 for members of SND. Watch your member e-mail to get details about the discount.

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In this virtual classroom, participants can join in a seminar led by Poynter faculty and visiting faculty. This screencast includes live audio and a slideshow presentation in which participants can post questions and respond to poll questions posed by the host.

The results of the 31st SND Best of Newspaper Design Competition have just been announced. Want to know why the judges chose what they chose? Wonder how you can emulate the winners?

Denise M. Reagan has had a front-row seat at the competition for the last eight years. Every year, she listens to the judges describe what they consider excellence in news design.

Learn from the best of what was entered in this year's competition and see how you can improve your work by understanding what made these pages winners.

What Will I Learn:
  • What draws readers — and judges — to your page
  • A breakdown of the key successful elements on some winning pages
  • Clichés that drive judges crazy
  • Advice from the judges
Who Should Take this Course:

Designers, copy editors and others who want to learn the techniques of award-winning news design.

Course Instructor:

Denise M. Reagan

Denise M. Reagan is the Assistant Managing Editor for Visuals at The Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville.com. She leads all aspects of visual communication including newspaper design, Web design, photography, print and online graphics, illustration and copy editing.

Denise is an adjunct professor at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communication where she teaches design.

Denise was named the Society for News Design Foundation president in January.

Training Partner:

The Society for News Design

The Society for News Design (SND) is an international organization for news media professionals and visual communicators – specifically those who create print, web, and mobile publications and products. Our members art direct, design, edit, report, illustrate, photograph and record video, visualize data – and write code.

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