When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad last month, there were immediate debates over what kind of impact it would have on both the news habits of consumers and the bottom lines of news organizations. But one thing seemed obvious: that the iPad would be a glorious playground for user-interface designers, information architects, and others who [...]

So, it’s official: There is an Apple tablet, and it’s called the iPad. And, at least to these Apple-friendly eyes, it looks really, really nice. I can feel my credit card getting warm already.
But for future-of-journalism junkies, the question was never whether or not Apple could come up with a sexy new device. The question [...]

Here is a great post from last month that, judging by the paucity of comments and trackbacks, has gotten very little attention: it’s called “10 Steps to Save the Newspaper,” and it’s by Morten Rand-Hendriksen of Burnaby, British Columbia on his blog, Design Is Philosophy.  As a matter of fact, everything on his blog (including [...]

If newspapers are the first draft of history, then consider these the first sketches.
In the video above, San Diego developer and artist Tim Schwartz shows off several visualizations of history he created with The New York Times’ entire 158-year corpus as his dataset. They are alternately quirky, beautiful, and probing — hundreds of millions of [...]

— The interactive crew at The New York Times are answering questions from readers all week. Of particular note so far are the answers to the second question, from Andrew Dunn:
I’m a student journalist trying to break into the journalist-programmer field. I’m curious — what skills do you need to have to be successful in [...]

Designer Mario Garcia has posted his final six (or maybe eight?) myths of newspaper design. Finally, someone stands up for ragged right! (The first four.)

Mario Garcia is posting 10 myths about newspaper design. The first four went up today — he comes out in favor of (or at least not in opposition to) italics, color, reversed type, and bumping headlines.

Other people’s thoughts on the Monitor’s moves:
– Design guru Mario Garcia likes the idea of shifting away from daily, but isn’t thrilled with the prototype of the new weekly. “Here is where I am somewhat disappointed…seems a bit primitive in terms of style, somewhat clunky in its use of page architecture, and not truly what [...]