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2.3.07

What makes this page a BFD: Best coverage of the Florida storm.





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The global warming story continues to lead in some newspapers. The Ventura County Star and the Daily Camera shared a headline, but little else. The Portland Press Herald also used the smokestack motif.

Most papers led with the storms in Florida. The Bakersfield Californian and The Desert Sun offer an interesting study in contrast: traditional vs. in your face. The State resurrected a headline from The Miami Herald's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1993.

Not surprisingly, the Florida papers went biggest with this story. The Sun-Sentinel and Orlando Sentinel were typical, but Orlando's "WOB" (white-on-black) made the page seem unnecessarily tabloid.

Today's BFD was the St. Petersburg Times for the best presentation of the Florida storms.

The Times covered all the bases: Clear lead headline serving as an "umbrella" to organize all the related content, secondary heads providing the next most important information, descriptive headlines on related stories, story-telling photos and a clear demarcation between storm stories and unrelated content at the bottom of the page.

Most six-column photos are a gratuitous waste of front-page real estate. Not so today, because this lead photo has tremendous detail that is only legible at maximum size. While everyone in Florida knew about the storm long before this page was delivered, this is the kind of photo people will ponder long after the storm has passed.


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A newspaper war, that is. The Sunday Star Times, New Zealand's largest newspaper, faces fierce competition on the newsstand from two tabloids. So it was redesigned to improve its above-the-fold presentation. The complete story will appear here and in the next issue of SND's DESIGN.
 
 






 
The Californian's redesign earned it a spot on Editor & Publisher's list of “Ten That Do it Right.” According to E&P, Bakersfield is appealing to its “really, really conservative market with a really, really radical redesign.”

And it’s working.

Circulation stops are down and revenue is up – over a thousand inches in the redesigned real estate section alone. See before and after, see more pages and read the stories.


 
 






 
The Eureka (CA) Reporter was just a 6,000-circ. weekly in 2004. Our radical yet elegant redesign helped this startup weekly grow to a daily in less than two years. The Reporter goes head-to-head with an established daily owned by Dean Singleton, who told The San Francisco Chronicle last month that his competitor, “does some good design things.” The Society of News Design agrees – they cited this redesign as one of the best in the world. See more pages.

 
 



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