Archive for the ‘Print’ Category

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Joe Morris

Of Olympic Coverage and Failure to Satisfy …

Whether it's a multibillion-dollar, 16-day global broadcasting spectacle or your company's social-media or print product, it's never a good idea to take advice only up to a point.

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Nancy Henderson

Road King Receives 11 Awards

Last week, the trucking magazine Road King, a bimonthly publication that we produce for our client TravelCenters of America, won 11 Truck Writer of North America Communicator Awards.

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Michael Nott

Photographic Impressions

Most of the work I do as creative director involves an editorial product. That means finding a way to enhance words with photos and graphics. When veteran photographer Mark Tucker came to Parthenon, he laid out a project that was especially intriguing to an art director. His photographs had to be the focal point. Words were secondary.

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Nancy Henderson

Writing Math

You probably think writing happens without any sort of mathematical calculation. Not at all true!

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Audience Awareness Drives Success

The best newsletters and magazines produced by companies not only tie their employees closer together, they also serve as potent marketing materials to vendors and interested bystanders, not to mention current and prospective customers.

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Nancy Henderson

How to Give a Good Interview

Preparation for and understanding the interview process can help you get your point across clearly, while also giving a good story.

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Nancy Henderson

3 Common Custom Magazine Mistakes

You can spend a lot of money to produce a beautiful magazine but still fail to excite or entice readers. Here are three tips to make sure you have an attractive and engaging publication.

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Becky Henson

Creating Error-Free Copy

The human eye may not be able to catch every error, but striving for the perfect piece of copy starts with a few simple proofing measures.

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Nancy Henderson

Content That Works

Too often newsletter articles come across as lectures from above. To keep your audience reading so that they actually absorb the information you are offering, you need to follow a few key steps.

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Joe Morris

Find Your Favorite Paper (Or Not) With Interactive Site

The number of newspapers continues to decline at an alarming pace (at least for those of us who've worked in the industry for more years than we care to admit), but there a few stalwarts still remain. Want to see who's still spilling barrels of ink daily? Then visit this site, a part of the Newseum’s interactive offerings. More than 800 newspapers worldwide have agreed to take part in this exercise, so scroll to your heart’s content and sample front pages from around the country, even the globe. (They’re not edited in any way, so the content of some might throw you. As the Newseum says, “discretion is advised.”)

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