How Designers Think
The Globe and Mail's visual evolution
Innovation in Newspaper Design American newspapers have long been the paragon of newspaper design, but in the past decade many have “lapsed into a lethargy that’s made them homogenized, sanitized and deca einated,” said Mario Garcia, in a 1996 American Journalism Review article. Today many are shackled to a bottom-line mentality as a result of […]
How Designers Think
The Globe and Mail's visual evolution
I stand next to Adrian Norris, The Globe andMail’s managing editor of design and presentation. Norris, with a cardboard cup of cafeteria coffee in hand, gives me a brief tour of his second home: the redesign room, a closet-like visual spectacle of an offi ce tucked in the corner of the third floor. It’s hidden […]
The Big Blind
The National Post is betting on a range of social media outlets. But will there be a profitable return on investment?
Chris Boutet’s desk at the National Post would be completely unassuming if it weren’t for the towering, narrow monitor in the corner, swarming with activity. Its sole purpose: to display TweetDeck, a program that monitors Twitter feeds. Boutet, who follows 1,600 of them, needs it to stay organized. “I have that unblinking eye staring at […]
Interns by the $$$
Enough with the moral debate over free labour. Just what are internships really worth to both job seekers and employers?
I decided I wanted to be a writer when I was 15. I still have the “Personal/Professional Action Plan” I completed for a Grade 10 careers class that lists the 10 steps I would take toward success. My last five: “Apply to Ryerson University; Get accepted to Ryerson University; Enter into journalism program; Choose area […]
The Big Blind
The National Post is betting on a range of social media outlets. But will there be a profitable return on investment?
Chris Boutet’s desk at the National Post would be completely unassuming if it weren’t for the towering, narrow monitor in the corner, swarming with activity. Its sole purpose: to display TweetDeck, a program that monitors Twitter feeds. Boutet, who follows 1,600 of them, needs it to stay organized. “I have that unblinking eye staring at […]
Quick Off the Mark
Who's leading the way in the great media apps race?
If you want proof that mobile applications have big potential in the media industry, you’ll find some of the most telling evidence in sports. Fans are downloading them in spectacular numbers. The Hockey News announced in September that its app was downloaded for the millionth time, a notable achievement given the magazine’s single-sport niche. The […]
Quick Off the Mark
Who's leading the way in the great media apps race?
If you want proof that mobile applications have big potential in the media industry, you’ll find some of the most telling evidence in sports. Fans are downloading them in spectacular numbers. The Hockey News announced in September that its app was downloaded for the millionth time, a notable achievement given the magazine’s single-sport niche. The […]
Vice Goes Global
How a foul-mouthed upstart became an unlikely outlet of praiseworthy journalism
BAGHDAD, 2006 Iraq’s August sun blasts waves of heat like a blow-dryer to the skin. Under palm tree shade, Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti are surrounded by a motorcade of film crew and AK-47–toting security. They’ve paid $1,500 a day for a bulletproof suv, another car without armour, two drivers, two shooters and a translator […]
Urban Guerilla
Spacing Magazine takes on a national edition and a new mayor
Graffiti Alley is one of Matthew Blackett’s favourite places in Toronto. Tucked behind a kilometre-long stretch of one of the city’s liveliest neighbourhoods, Queen Street West, the area is saturated with art. As he walks past the spray-painted brick walls, he comments on the stencils and scribbles that colour the laneway, identifying artists from their […]
Do Anchors Still Matter?
The real meaning of Dawna Friesen
“Welcome home, Dawna Friesen.” Transmitted through television screens, printed in newspapers and plastered across public spaces, the phrase echoed across Canada as the summer of 2010 came to a close. Global Television and Canwest’s $1 million-plus promotional blitz for Friesen, its new national news anchor, was especially intense in Toronto. A tight shot of her […]
