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There might be a pretty good opportunity for breaking news coverage next week as the midterm election results start to come out. Presenting your coverage online, here’s the big thing to think about: Where’s it going to go? Is it time to finally use the Breaking News Ticker? Add headlines to it throughout the day as you […]
But what if it’s bad? Consider for a moment the significance of recent box-office hit Crazy Rich Asians, which many student journalists are filing reviews of lately. Great, right? But is it actually any good? New York Times critic Wesley Morris wrote a thoughtful essay about how cultural criticism — that of art, television, movies — has worsened, in 2018, by becoming more […]
You can’t escape it. The political ads pouring into your poor mailbox and out of your television screen (here’s our favorite). The context applied to all news, or discussions of news, coming out of Washington, D.C. recently. The midterm elections are right around the corner. On our podcast with The New York Times’ design team, they […]
As the calendar flips to October, fall sports season is hitting its stride. That means every game has higher stakes and the postseason is right around the corner, if not already here for some. So, there’s a lot to cover. What could you be doing? Previews and gamers Some teams play so frequently — volleyball, […]
Alright, we’ve tortured you long enough. Best of SNO is back, baby! But wait… There’s nowhere to submit my story! Ahh! Am I going crazy? Why are you doing this to me! WAS THAT A GHOST I JUST SAW! Frankie says “relax.” Gone are the days when you had to fill out a submission form on the […]
Surrealism You might have seen The Weather Channel give new meaning to the word “infographic” when it virtually embedded a meteorologist in (begin LeBron voice) not three, not six but nine feet of water in a surreal demonstration for Hurricane Florence. By our research, the demo was widely praised for inventing a new way to lay onto […]
Step into most professional newsrooms and you’ll find someone with knowledge of web traffic. Maybe it’s the general manager or an editor, or maybe it’s someone hired specifically to track and find uses for that data. In your newsroom, who’s that person going to be? As a SNO customer, you have access to Google Analytics, the […]
“How do we design our header?” Here’s a good question we get a lot, especially this time of year. New editors are at the controls, wondering how to put their unique stamp on the year. This is a pretty simple answer, as far as we’re concerned. You can do it yourself, or you can hire us to do […]
The first couple weeks of school might be the most free time you’ll have, before all your time is spent report, writing and publishing, and other class workloads spike, to put together your 2018-2019 staff page. The staff page can be a fun team building activity, if you do it right, and can, at least, get new […]