Note: Advance registration is required (link to register is below).
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Student Workshop Schedule:
The 21st Century Visual Journalist: What You Need to Succeed
We’re excited to offer a full day of free student training before the conference on Thursday, Sept. 29, thanks largely to the help of Jenifer George-Palilonis and our awesome team of panelists. There’s no fee for the workshop and no registration needed, just come join the party!
Panelists:
Moderator:
The opening reception will feature light snacks, drinks and one of the most amazing places on earth, The City Museum. This gem may sound boring from the name but is an artist's jungle gym, recycled junkyard, and retro playground sure to dazzle and amaze you. There's a 10-story slide, the worlds largest pencil, a retro arcade, a log cabin bar, a ball pit, an airplane fuselage, an aquarium, a series of underground caves and much much more. ... It's like no place on earth!
Note: You should where comfortable clothes and shoes if you'd like to explore the amazing sculptures, caverns and more.
Shrinking newsrooms. Voracious web demand. Today’s graphics staffs are often expected to produce more content to spread across multiple platforms, while faced with shrinking staffs. This session examines ways to maximize a department’s impact and ability to react to news events. This will party be an idea-sharing session, so bring your own ideas!
What we know about mobile users — maybe: Regina McCombs will synthesize the research on mobile from Nielsen, Pew, comScore, Google, RJI and a host of other studies to sort through what’s holding up over time and what’s contradictory. Roger Fidler will also release the latest survey results from the DPA's iPad/Tablet Research Project. His summer survey is the first to track user behaviors and news consumption trends on the iPad as well as all other comparable media tablets worldwide.
This session is held in partnership with the RJI Digital Publishing Alliance
These SND Committee Meetings will be held on Friday:
Want to keep readers happy? You gotta be unpredictable. Provocative. And a lot cleverer.
In short: more fun.
Now, in many newsrooms, “fun” is a four-letter word. We’ve gotten too grim, too grumpy, too screwed into ruts. But you can revive the ol’ mojo with “FUN 101,” an entertaining tour of time-tested techniques for adding wit and zazz to page designs.
More zazz, less zzz-zzz. That’s our motto.
We’ll analyze hundreds of swipeable examples: classic covers from National Lampoon and Mad magazine. Legendary layouts from the Asbury Park Press. Interactive pages that will make you say “Wow!” Unusual headlines that will make you say “Huh???” And some tasteless vulgarity and nudity that will make you say, “Hmmm . . . . . this requires closer inspection.”
Which is why we’ll make CDs of the entire speech available to those who remain to the bitter end.
A frank and open moderated panel discussion with leaders from around the country about mobile and tablet news products and what we've learned so far. This will offer best practices, anecdotes, tips and tricks, successes and failures sharing what we've learned about reader habits, platforms, app store approval, marketing your mobile content, staffing and production strategies. Speakers: Chris Courtney, Ray Marcano, Steve Yelvington
Moderator: Steve Dorsey
This session is held in partnership with the RJI Digital Publishing Alliance
Reinvent yourself; reinvent your world
Remember all that stuff you've learned over the past five or ten years about adapting to change?
Well forget it. Every word of it.
If you're willing and capable of adapting to change, then you're not doing it right. Because technology, social media and simple human nature is changing journalism -- and the whole world, for that matter -- much faster than any newspaper; than any modern journalist can follow.
It's not enough to change or to be willing to adapt. You have to be able to reinvent yourself. To remake your entire skill set, your goals, your outlook on your career and on life itself.
If you don't, you may find your world reinvented around you. And if you don't like that world, you'll have no one to blame but yourself.
You've seen visual journalist, consultant and blogger Charles Apple speak about innovative design and graphics. His message to you this time: Your future is bigger than presentation. It's bigger than typography and flash and data visualization. It's bigger than newspapers and it's even bigger than journalism.
The future is bigger than all that. YOU'RE bigger than all that.
You're only limited by the size of your imagination. And by how willing you are to reinvent yourself
Rob King, Vice President and Editor in Chief of ESPN Digital Media! King is a pioneer in digital journalism at the ‘king’ of sports on any platform you can imagine from mobile to TV to print magazine to the Web. He will discuss ESPN's multi-platform strategy for news content.
In the last SND annual competition, one thing some of the big winners — from World’s Best “i” in Portugal to the major papers in the United Arab Emirates — had in common was that they employed expats in key visual journalism and/or copy editing positions. If you’ve ever considered an overseas post or are curious about the work being done by expats around the world, this will be a practical look at the potential and the pitfalls, the adventure and the realities of working in a newsroom in a different culture and, sometimes, a different language. See some of the great work being done and hear directly from the people doing that work about their experience as full-time staff members at papers around the world. A brief presentation followed by a panel discussion, moderated by Bill Gaspard. The panelists that will include:
-- Luis Chumpitaz, Information Graphics Director for Al Bayan newspaper and Emirates247.com in Dubai.
-- Adonis Durado, Design Director at The Times of Oman.
-- Matt Martel, Managing Editor, Presentation at The Sydney Morning Herald
-- Nick Mrozowski, Creative Director of Adweek magazine
Touch, tap, flick, and pinch the news. Touch interfaces, especially on tablets, hold the promise for entirely new media experiences that are both rich and intimate—but only if done right. Discover the rules of thumb for finger-friendly design. Touch gestures are sweeping away buttons, menus and windows from mobile devices, tablets, even the next version of Windows. The challenge: gestures are invisible, without the visual cues offered by buttons and menus. As your touchscreen app sheds buttons, how do people figure out how to use the thing?
Learn to lead your audience by the hand (and fingers) with practical techniques that make invisible gestures obvious and content navigation effortless. Designer Josh Clark (author of O'Reilly books "Tapworthy" and "Best iPhone Apps") mines a variety of surprising sources for interface inspiration, design patterns, and best practices. Along the way, you'll discover practical techniques for nurturing great user experience within the demands of emerging business models for mobile- and tablet-delivered news.
This session is held in partnership with the RJI Digital Publishing Alliance
As New Media evolves, does your work creating and manipulating data for these varied demands overwhelm your creative staff? Let us explain how your Editorial System can improve the management of your content to enhance your Multimedia design capabilities. Ken Freedman and Geoff Kehrer from MediaSpan will show how data management can help you ‘create once, publish many’.
Is it who you know or who knows you? This and other branding questions will be answered in this session, which is part of a daylong American Press Institute workshop on building journalistic brands. We will talk about the power of brands, journalists who have developed excellent brands and what you can start doing right now to craft and promote a digital brand that will sustain your career.
The Minority Report is here. Iris scanning mobile devices are used in law enforcement. Interactive touch interfaces. Customized, geo-located and personalized content and ads. If we were making Minority Report 2, what would the next 5-10 years include? The future of mobile, tablets and all media is wide open with these new disruptive platforms, business models and cultural changes. We'll end the mobile and table track with a frank discussion about what the future is looking like, from trends to wild guesses.
Come snack, drink and be merry at this St. Louis tradition, while showing of your knowledge of design, journalism, SND and St. Louis trivia.
Proceeds will go to the SND Foundation, which helps fund student scholarships and research.
Registration is required, click here to learn more
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ACES Partnership Session
How to maintain quality and ethical standards while juggling multiple deadlines and content demands for print, mobile, web and tablet. This session will focus on what errors readers notice most — and that you should focus on the most — and will include a discussion on online ethics vs. print.
Qingjun Zhang, winner of a rare SND Gold Medal for his design work on the Chinese Tiger calendar package, will be discussing, “The state and the trend of Chinese ‘serious’ Newspapers and the Golden Tiger” including his Gold Medal project.
Three ingredients make up responsive web design: flexible grid-based layout, flexible images and media, and media queries. But these three elements are just focused on layout and layout is not design. “Design is the method of putting form and content together.” (Paul Rand) In the context of designing and prototyping BostonGlobe.com, we’ll talk about how we applied this technique to present news content, how we created the reader-experience and how a responsive framework affects:
We’ll show some of the code (what makes the grid flexible, the images responsive, media queries, etc) as well as the static prototypes. We will offer insight to the ‘design-velopment’ process of rapid prototyping in code and illustration. We’ll show the logic behind how the content reflows at different browser-width breakpoints. We’ll we’ll talk about using custom fonts and fallback plans to better tailor content to users’ varying contexts, and methods for testing a ‘device-agnostic’ layout across a relatively exhaustive list of devices.
Co-creation and participatory design requires new skills and design practices that many firms are exploring, in many ways. What are the underlying principles that make these great collaborative design processes work? How can you Gamestorming is a way to apply game thinking and game mechanics to these kinds of business and design challenges. Gamestorming can be used to quickly form simple models of complex systems, so you can involve others in your design thinking, explore systems, and experience them from within to gain new insights. Gamestorming is a holistic design approach that will help you combine design practices like sketching, sorting, prototyping and role-play to gain meaningful design insights and outcomes.
We're moving from an industrial to a knowledge economy, where creativity and innovation will be the keys to value. New rules apply. Yet 200 years of industrial habits are embedded in our workplaces, our schools and our system of government. How must we change our work practices to win in the 21st Century?
Gamestorming is for people who want to design the future, to change the world, to make, break and innovate. It's a rough-and-ready toolkit for inventors, explorers and change agents who want to use design thinking to navigate successfully in complex and uncertain knowledge and information spaces, to engage others, and to start, grow and sustain movements for change.
Gamestorming is a set practical, proven solutions to common workplace challenges. Learn how to engage people in your project, to get better traction and move more quickly with groups, to make things happen and get better, faster decisions and results.
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The future’s bright for innovative news designers, you just have to be creative about reinventing your career path. Find out how from a panel of finalists from SND’s original “The Intern” competition. Five years ago they burst onto the scene as fresh-faced students hungry for their first internship. Today, they’re blazing trails at the country’s most influential media companies, running their own businesses and defining the jobs for the next generation.
Why everything you learned in the newsroom will make you a better web designer
With digital news content being published on phones, tablets, and all sorts of other platforms, there’s an explosion of content on the web — and a serious need for experienced editorial designers to organize it all. The skills honed in newsrooms are more relevant than ever as readers demand better online experiences. Tito Bottitta & Mike Swartz will share stories and practical advice about how they learned this for themselves while launching Upstatement, their web design firm, and designing the new BostonGlobe.com website.
The craft of journalism is too often driven by the journalists themselves — by their own standards of what is important and worthy. Designers have long been the people in newsrooms speaking up for the near-mythical “audience” — asking questions about how to make content accessible, whether the main points of a story are clear and how readers will be encouraged to act on the information they’re given.
If you missed Karl in Denver, we’ve brought him back to expand on his ever-growing list of free online software for generating visualizations of all sorts: GIS maps, graphs, timelines, slideshows, animations, collages and the like. Also, if you don’t feel like buying the Adobe Suite, there is really good open-source software that can do layout and design, draw, manipulate photos, edit movies and more. Karl will help you sort through the mass of them and let you know the best ones to use to help visualize your stories by giving you an overview of the capabilities of each. Attendees are also welcome to share any free software that they like to use.
We’re thrilled to announce Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan will close out SND STL with a special presentation before the awards dinner on Saturday, October 1st. The dynamic duo are internationally known for their innovative thinking and ground-breaking work in digital journalism across many platforms. Together they created EPIC 2014, a futuristic look at culture, technology and the future, and they also blog about similar issues at the must-read,Snarkmarket. This special presentation is made possible with the sponsor support of The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.
SND STL takes Washington Ave hostage and rocks it until 3 a.m. (when most of the bars close)!