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JFK50: Dallas paper finds success by reprinting its past

Society for News Design

Rob Schneider, presentation director at The Dallas Morning News, shares how the paper reprinted its Nov. 23, 1963 cover of the Kennedy assassination and made nearly half-a-million dollars.

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Janet Michaud on POLITICO's new magazine

Society for News Design

In late July, The Washington Post’s design director Janet Michaud announced she was moving to POLITICO to become creative director of its new magazine. SND caught up with her to learn about the launch process.

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Cover story: The New Republic

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SND will regularly feature a Q&A on how magazine covers were developed. This week, The New Republic Creative Director Dirk Barnett shares the process for developing the November 25 cover.

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Chelsea & The City: A year's worth of lessons…illustrated

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Chelsea Kardokus started blogging about her journey to TIME magazine a year ago, but her time writing for SND.org has come to an end. In her final post, she shares her five biggest lessons of the last 365 days.

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San Francisco Chronicle goes Gotham City for Batkid

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Miles is a 5-year old boy in remission after battling leukemia since he was 20-months old. Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, with help from the San Francisco Chronicle, Miles got to spend a day fighting crime in “Gotham City.”

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[VIDEO] SND Louisville revisited

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A retrospective video of the Society For News Design annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Harris Siegel on hockey, kerning, and being a mentor

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Harris Siegel was given SND’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday. We haven’t heard much Harris since he left newspapers in 2008, so we wanted to catch up with some questions and answers.

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