Design

Visual language adds immense meaning to our storytelling.

Learn how to build visualizations that will engage and build trust with your audience, and how to use different tools to build quick visualizations and animations.

PowerPoint 05 – Promote Your Story

Learn ways to use PowerPoint to promote and drive more interest in your stories. PowerPoint can help you do that with memes, video and more.

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    • PowerPoint 04 -Tell Your Story

    Learn from Microsoft master trainer Bill Monroe how an effective PowerPoint helps tell your story. This is the fourth session in a five-part series on PowerPoint.

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    • PowerPoint 03 – Adding Video, Audio and More

    Improve your deck with video, audio, data and animations with instruction from Microsoft trainer Bill Monroe. This is the third in our series on learning PowerPoint.

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    • PowerPoint 02: How to Use Shapes and Transitions to See the Story

    See the Story: Microsoft trainer Bill Monroe teaches you how to use shapes, transitions, morph and more in this walkthrough of PowerPoint. Excellent details for improving your decks.

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    • Packaging, proofing and design center workflows for the CCJ

    Making it all come together is a complex orchestra.

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    • Your handy guide to Presto in production

    The updated figures are below. The grand total is $242K, or $20K per period. It works out to $101 per paycheck for those involved.

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    • PowerPoint 01 – Storytelling with PowerPoint

    Learn how to create a slide deck from a template and add basic content, speaker notes and launch your slideshow. Learn PowerPoint uses and tour the interface.

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    • Data visualization: InfoGram 201

    Students will use datasets to build more advanced maps and single chart graphics.

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    • Data visualization: Canva and Venngage 201

    Students will use a set of data points and data sets to build static and interactive graphics. We also will show how Flourish interfaces with Canva, since Canva now owns it.

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    • Data visualization: Datawrapper 301

    A deep dive on building choropleth and location maps. In 75 minutes we will build three maps, based on both US and global data. We will work on a more advanced chart and focus more on adding tooltips and footnotes in the charts.

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    • Google Trends 301

    How to download data from the Google Trends store and create Flourish graphics with it. Also: Tracking midterm election issues and candidates. How can you use Trends during an election?

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    • Google MyMaps 301

    Students will build layered maps. We will show them how to work multimedia into the map. We’ll use real data they can download. Bonus: We also will show how to use PhantomBuster to scrape data OUT of Google Maps.

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    • Data visualization: Flourish 201/301

    Easily turn your data into stunning charts, maps and interactive visuals for your stories. We will unlock the advanced features and settings in Flourish that will help you animate and bring your stories to life, while remaining true to our styles and branding.

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    • Protected: High school and college sports coverage tools, Part II

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    • Protected: Google Earth tools for your newsroom

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    • Print design: Ethics and diversity

    The choices we make must be truthful, fair, balanced and complete. Each decision happens in the context of many other decisions, both in the same moment and over time.

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    • Print design: Color

    Our UNIFIED style guide has a very specific description of how color should be used In our design…based in part on a color palette developed specifically for us.

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    • Print design: Photography

    Use pictures to effectively convey meaning, detail and context — all within an ethical framework.

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    • Print design: Display type

    These items give the reader additional points of entry (or interest) to the stories on the page.

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    • Print design: Headlines

    Think of headlines as a road map for readers to guide them around a page.

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    • Print design: The grid

    Learn about how 3, 4, 6 and 12-column concepts unify our look — making it cleaner and more understandable to readers.

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    • Visual storytelling: Styles and standards

    Common design styles and standards are the framework for great visual storytelling. Learn how the design choices we make, from headline size to photo placement, impact reader perception.

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    • Write better headlines and captions

    Learn how the pros at the Design Center zero in on the heart of the story, using just a few words.

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    • News values and judgment

    We tackle the fundamentals of what makes a story newsworthy, the essential practices of journalists and the shared values that differentiate journalism from other forms of content and storytelling.

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    • Conversational headlines

    Getting readers to tap your story starts ​with a headline that makes them a promise​.

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    • Improving our relationship with readers

    A primer on the the audience funnel. First, we will do an audience health checkup and what we can do to help move readers through the loyalty funnel. Then we explore what a reader NEEDS from our content  – and making sure we deliver.

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    • Investigative/data skills series: Data visualization using Infogram

    Data visualization for everyone using InfoGram, an easy but powerful tool available to journalists across Gannett.

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    • Google Trends for graphics and SEO

    Use this tool to track and visualize search trends on Google.

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    • Mapping 101: Google MyMaps and Carto.com

    This tool is great for smaller “day-turn” maps for routine stories such as pothole repairs, vaccination centers, etc.

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    • Google Public Data Explorer

    The Google Public Data Explorer is linked to reliable datasets that can help you build charts in minutes.

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    • Google News Lab training

    Daniel Petty, a certified Google News Lab trainer with the Denver Post, discusses reverse image search, advanced search, maps and Google Fusion tables.

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    • Creating data visualizations

    In this quick clip, Maggie Farley discusses how to build visualizations that will engage and build trust with your audience. She demonstrates different tools to build quick data visualizations and animations.

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    • #DoJournalismWithImpact (for digital editors)

    Got a major project planned? Why not use Architect, the new external article template from GateHouse Media? Program developer Tyson Bird touches on how this tool can be used most effectively and shows examples of the template in action.

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    • Google: Geo and mapping

    Maggie Farley, a former Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent who now works with Google News Initiative, covers Geo and Mapping.

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    • Protected: Table Stakes: Design-Do every day agile methodology in practice

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