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Oct. 31st The 10 Myths of Newspaper Design Still Ring True Today

TAKEAWAY: Many of you have written to ask me for a copy of the now legendary 10 Myths about Newspaper Design, originally published in my book, Newspaper Evolutions (1996).  Here they are. Surprisingly, they are still almost as valuable today. I add a couple of new ones. Today, I present the first four myths. The rest to follow during the weekend.

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Oct. 29th New pages of La Tribune: success story in Paris

TAKEAWAY: As La Tribune introduced its new Berliner format, new branding and a brand new focus on how to present the financial news of the day, the public reacted in a most positive way, and there were no copies of the newspaper left anywhere the first three days of the new look.

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Oct. 28th The Christian Science Monitor: creating the model of the future?

TAKEAWAY: I have said it repeatedly: the newspaper of the future is likely to be an online product with a robust weekend edition and several supplements. The Monitor may become the laboratory for such experiments.

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Oct. 26th La Tribune launches a new formula and Berliner format for the Google generation

TAKEAWAY: Perhaps it is easier the second time around: we at Garcia Media were involved in the 2006 rethinking of France’s financial daily 
 La Tribune
; now, with new ownership, new editors and a dramatically different philosophy, the more colorful, more precise and easier to navigate 
 La Tribune
  is here.

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Oct. 24th The “real” tabloid is back: Weekly World News online, and soon in print

TAKEAWAY: Who among us has not stopped to read the 350-point headline on that wacky Weekly World News front page? From Elvis sightings (thousands reported), to aliens landing on the side of Interstate 4, it was all here, providing the three-minute chuckle we could all use at that long supermarket cashier’s line. The Weekly World News went away a year ago, now it is back. Does it need a redesign?

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Oct. 23rd Los Angeles Times redesign: few surprises, more color, less classic

TAKEAWAY:   At least the first day of the new Los Angeles Times redesign did not show a big leap into the future; however, it embraces more color and appears to settle comfortably into a more contemporary style than its usual more classic design.

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Oct. 21st A design mini-moment: MINT and The Wall Street Journal

TAKEAWAY: It is two years since we created the design for the new Indian financial daily, Mint.  Now we look back at one development during the design phase.
All is well that ends blue.

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Oct. 21st Thoughts while running: creating those hard-to-read computer literacy tests

TAKEAWAY: We all see them, those wiggly letters that appear at the bottom of so many web pages, asking us to decipher them before we can proceed.
Is this the anti-typography?

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Oct. 19th Amsterdam 2008 Marathon Weekend: cool, windy and now over

Another race, another exciting time in a spectacular city. The 2008 Amsterdam Marathon and other races is over.

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Oct. 17th From newspaper company to mega multimedia house: VG of Norway shows us the way

TAKEAWAY: Amsterdam: At the World Association of Newspapers’ 11tth Readership Conference, Verdens Gang CEO, Torry Pedersen, outlines a success story, with tips for others to follow——-when it comes to print and web integration, Pedersen recommends “integrated separation”. Updated Sunday, Oct. 19th

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Oct. 16th Print is eternal but it needs to focus content

It is paper that becomes the secret weapon of printed newspapers, what the other technologies try so hard to emulate, says William Powers, who was keynote speaker at the annual Readership Conference of the World Association of Newspapers in Amsterdam on Oct. 16. I am attending this conference and will speak Friday, Oct. 17.

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Oct. 15th Ally Palmer Interview: Smaller newspapers have to be smarter

TAKEAWAY: A three-minute interview with designer Ally Palmer: “we’re working in an industry which is, for the most part, managing decline, but there’s also no doubt that print still has a place in the modern media landscape.“

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Oct. 14th Explaining the financial mess: calling Nigel Holmes

TAKEAWAY: He is the ultimate graphic thinker to make the complicated easier for the rest to understand. He is Nigel Holmes, one of British’s greatest exports to America—-long before Tina Brown.  He is back trying to show us the way in the midst of the current financial crisis.

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Oct. 13th El Centro: A Mexican newspaper laughs all the way to the end

TAKEAWAY: It was lively. It was funny, tongue in cheek and aimed at young readers in the Mexican capital. It ceased publication Oct. 11, no longer able to sustain itself.

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Oct. 13th The fun factor in newspapers during time of crisis

strong>TAKEAWAY: Ask an American editor about British journalism and the likely answer will probably be “racy”; ask a British editor the same question about U.S. newspapers and you are likely to hear something like “bloody serious”.

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