ASFs in Nashville

By Denise M. Reagan — March 26, 2008

After two successful Story Forms Boot Camps in St. Petersburg and Toronto, Josh Awtry (The Salt Lake Tribune), Stephen Komives (Orlando Sentinel) and Denise M. Reagan (The Florida Times-Union) take their two-day, hands-on workshop to the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute housed in the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University.

Professionals and students will team up on real-life newsroom projects in real time.

Look for blog entries and photos starting Friday.

And, it’s not too late to register for this or any other Quick Course. Check out all the training opportunities here.

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Miscellany

Newspaper Death Watch: Advertising Age has launched the first in a series of articles on the future (or non-future) of newspapers from the perspective of advertisers, along with a poll asking readers to guess the lifespan of newsprint.; Comment
South African paper rethinks page numbers: “To commemorate World AIDS day on December 1st the South African newspaper Cape Argus used their page numbers on the top of every page of the newspaper to educate the public on statistics relating to the AIDS pandemic in South Africa. All the statistics were collected from UNICEF and the South African Department of Health.” (via osocio.org and bestadsontv); Comment

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These papers received the most awards in the 29th annual Best of Newspaper Design competition, view their front pages today via the Newseum.

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3D Quick Course: A chat with a guru or two

SND’s 3D graphics QuickCourse was in San Francisco this weekend for a two-day workshop focused on Newtek’s LightWave. SND Update caught up with the course’s two speakers, South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Len DeGroot and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Steve Wilson, along Ocean Beach outside San Francisco’s Beach Chalet.

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Industry News

Nuri Ducassi joins Sun-Sentinel

Nuri Ducassi is leaving her post as Design Director at the Montreal Gazette to become Features Design Director at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Memo from Design Director Paul Wallen follows:

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A look at El Mundo’s new office

EL MUNDO newspaper and elmundo.es are now working together in the new integrated building on Avda. de San Luis, Madrid, Spain. Their first big test was the Spanish National Election Coverage — and the building did not collapse.

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Events

3-D InfoGraphics Quick Course: Apr 12, San Francisco State University
Small Papers Summit: May 31, Republican-American, Waterbury, CT

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