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Oct. 31, 2008, 11:21 a.m.

Garcia on design

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.

Joshua Benton is the senior writer and former director of Nieman Lab. You can reach him via email (joshua_benton@harvard.edu) or Twitter DM (@jbenton).
POSTED     Oct. 31, 2008, 11:21 a.m.
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