Sara Dickenson Quinn
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.
Sara Dickenson Quinn
Apr. 1, 2013
3:26 pm
Poynter's coverage of the
Covering Guns conference in Chicago continues Wednesday. (Check out photos of the
class trip to a shooting range Tuesday!) You can watch video live below.
Free live streaming by Ustream
Here are today's scheduled events (all times EDT):
9-9:30: The Global View: What Journalists Should Know About What Other Countries Do About Guns • Joyce Lee Malcolm, Professor of Law, George Mason University
10:45-noon: Mental Health and Gun Violence • Dr. Gary S. Belkin, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center and Senior Director for Psychiatric Services for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
12:15-1:15: Testing the Truth About Gun Claims: The Politifact Way • Bill Adair, Politifact
1:15-2:45: Lunch. Guest speaker • Linda Lutton, WBEZ Chicago - This American Life
Poynter's Butch Ward and Al Tompkins will live-blog and moderate a chat throughout the day.
You can replay Tuesday's live blog and chat:
And here's Monday's live blog and chat:
Here's the full conference schedule.
In order to prepare for the conversation, consider taking a side trip to
Covering Guns, the website Al Tompkins built to go along with the course.
The
homework section will guide you to the most important parts of the classroom conversations.
The conference hashtag is #coveringguns. Poynter will hold a second Covering Guns workshop July 10-12 in the Washington, D.C., area.
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Sara Dickenson Quinn
Mar. 20, 2013
8:45 am
Artist Marina Luz faced a journalistic challenge.
She had to illustrate the story of a young woman named “Jennifer,” who had been sexually abused in a state-run facility. But she could not use an image of Jennifer. What’s more, she … Read more
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Sara Dickenson Quinn
Jan. 10, 2013
2:55 pm
Kapow! Blam! Surprise! Sometimes, that’s what nothing can do.
The New York Times sports staff reminded us of that again with their cover “story” about this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame inductees — or lack, thereof.

- This sports front
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Sara Dickenson Quinn
Nov. 7, 2012
11:57 am
Images and graphics are often the things shared most by people after an event of last night’s magnitude.
Photos capture moments frozen in time.
Graphics can distill the complex.
Interactive graphics can allow people to peruse and discover at their … Read more
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Sara Dickenson Quinn
Oct. 17, 2012
11:16 am
It’s all about touch.
People were either intimately involved with the iPad screen while reading during our recent eyetracking study — keeping nearly constant contact while touching, tapping, pinching and swiping to adjust their view — or they carefully arranged … Read more
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Sara Dickenson Quinn
Dec. 9, 2011
1:59 pm
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 the … Read more
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Sara Dickenson Quinn
Oct. 17, 2011
10:21 am
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
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Sara Dickenson Quinn
Oct. 6, 2011
3:02 pm
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
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Sara Dickenson Quinn
Aug. 16, 2011
7:17 am
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