Sara teaches in the areas of design, illustration, photojournalism and leadership. She encourages visual journalists to find their voice in the newsroom and to think beyond traditional job descriptions for ways to contribute their ideas, passions and abilities.
Poynter’s “EyeTrack: Tablet” project, the latest in our long tradition of research to understand how readers view news, can now announce some early results: iPad users have an overwhelming instinct to swipe horizontally through a full screen photo gallery,… Read more
What should we know about the way storytelling and news is presented on tablets?
In 1990, Poynter tested how people read news in print. In 2000 and 2003, we tested how people read news online. Then, we dove into
Where are all of the truly great Sunday, front page designs in the U.S. these days?
As I do my daily run through the Newseum’s collection of front pages, Sunday looks a lot like Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
“Papers… Read more
Letters on a computer screen were two-dimensional blips and characters that rolled along as you typed them in before Steve Jobs and his team created the windows interface.
Jobs gave visual depth to things.
He put drop shadows between elements… Read more
The Huffington Post hit a nerve in the professional design community when the website announced a contest to design its new Politics icon.
“To ask designers to work for nothing suggests that design has no value,” said Richard Grefé… Read more
There’s an expression in basketball: “You’ve got to see the court.” In other words, anticipate what’s coming and be ready to play.
Students in Terence Oliver’s infographics class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were ready… Read more
I expected something a little edgier when I reached for the cover of the redesigned Newsweek on Monday. After all, the revamp came after the content merger with the magazine’s highly opinionated partner, The Daily Beast.
The Newsweek cover… Read more
In this week’s chat, Sara Dickenson-Quinn and Katy Culver of the University of Wisconsin-Madison joined Poynter’s Multimedia for College Educators seminar participants for a discussion about how to help implement changes in your school’s curriculum.
During the chat,… Read more
For two weeks in May, Poynter will open its doors to 40 college journalists or recent graduates who are ready to hit the ground running as they enter their first professional newsrooms.
We’re looking for those journalists now.
Taking cues from readers in a recent poll, The Hartford Courant has opted to return to a traditional, horizontal nameplate on their front page. The oldest… Read more