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Learn video journalism in Berlin

Want to improve (or aquire) your video journalism skills? Learn how to produce professional reports from the field? Shoot and edit sequences, conduct interviews for film and gain practice with the editing workflow, story editing and principal technologies for Web films?

Why not do it in the middle of Berlin, Germany, then? Sign up for the Camp Video Journalism workshop, to be held in March 17–19, 2009. Robb Montgomery, CEO of Visual Editors, is the instructor.

Sign up at campvjberlin.eventbrite.com –early bird registration before Feb 24 (you save $150)
Visit Camp Video Journalism at campvj.ning.com
–or enjoy this video explaining what Camp VJ is all about:

Front pages after Obama took the oath

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The front pages of world's newspapers on the days around January 20, when Barack Obama took over the presidency of the United States, were definitaley not among the most creative ones. Newseum has archived the pages from January 19, 20, 21, and 22 at newseum.org.

On the 21st, most front pages showed either the oath, the crowd, or the dance. Very few took different approaches to the big event. The Telegraph of India, for instance, visualized the change with a graphic illustration across the upper half of the front page, The Washington Post hired a painter to do Obama's portrait for the cover on Inauguration Day, and the Chicago Sun Times did a wonderful quiet front page on January 22nd, showing the new president at work in his new job. See a few pages above, and the rest at newseum.org.

News You Can Use

"News You Can Use" is the mantra of 24timer – or at least an important guideline for producing the paper. The other day, I spotted 24timer (as well as our sister publication, MetroXpress) used very effectively in the window of a pub being rebuilt. The workers inside had taken our slogan literally – although this was probably not the intention of the slogan originally …

UPDATED: A few days to go if you're a winner!

OOPS: Deadline extended to Friday, January 30 !
The deadline for the Best of Scandinavian News Design 2009 is getting close. Today, there is only ten days left for you to gather your best designs from 2008, fill out the form, and send in your pages!
__For all you web people out there – this year's competition has been changed so that the online categories are now listed with categories of its own, making the judging of your websites more differentiated and fair.

So, enough talk:
Head on to snds.org and submit your best work – and maybe you're a winner!!
More info and online registration at http://www.snds.org

SNDS Magazine issue 4, 2008 is finally here

SNDS Magazine no. 4/2008 is finally here. The PDF version of the mag has been published online, and the printed version is on its way to patient subscribers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

In the magazine you will find articles about the upcoming event of the year: the Oulu24 seminar to be held in May; reports from the chairman's visit to SND Russia, maybe the smallest, yet very active, branch of the SND family, and then some.

The cover story – about the Scandinavian front pages following the U.S. presidential election in November – are supported by two slideshows I made from a collection of pdfs, showing how we tackled the very special situation of the result being announced only a few hours after the deaddine of most newspapers in our part of the world.

I also collected some of the best front pages from all over the world published on election day, as this day – worldwide – seemed to have urged editors to be much more creative than after the expected victory of barack Obama. Check out the presentations below. And check out snds.org for news about news :-)
(Full screen view in the slideshows: Click the icon in the bottom right corner)

The Best Design Websites 2008

design:related has published "Best of 2008: A List of Design Lists" – an impressive collection of design-related websites: 150 links to outstanding sites from categories such as Art, Design, Fashion, General News, Typography, Web Design, and many more. So if you want to look back to the year we just left – find a couple of free hours and start at designrelated.com