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Keynote: What Else Do Information Designers Do?

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 18, 2020 Most of us are artists at heart; but can we still draw, make things with our hands, turn off the computer, and have fun? Yes!

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Drawing The Line: Musings On The Enduring Power Of Visual Satire And The Hand-Crafted Image

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 25, 2020 A long time practitioner of hand-crafted cartooning explains why hand-crafted cartoons retain their enduring power in the digital age. SESSION TAKEAWAYS By the end of this session, you will be able to: Historical background the history of political cartoons and caricature.An overview on…

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Making Journalism More Accessible

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 25, 2020 Tips and tricks for how any journalist — writers, editors, designers, developers, graphics artists, web producers — can make their work more accessible to people with disabilities. SESSION TAKEAWAYS By the end of this session, you will be able to: Better explain web…

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Charts, Obits And A Scrapbook: How The Tampa Bay Times Is Telling The Story Of The Coronavirus

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 25, 2020 https://vimeo.com/manage/641975392/general In this panel, four Tampa Bay Times reporters discuss how they tell local stories during a national crisis. SESSION TAKEAWAYS By the end of this session, you will be able to: Make considerations when automating data and graphics for breaking newsKnow how…

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Design Lightning Talks

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 18, 2020 Fast-paced talks use an alternative presentation format that challenges the speakers to summarize their message into a bite-sized length — because they are limited to just 20 slides, each auto-advancing every 15 seconds. Each presentation is only 5 minutes long, and we’re letting…

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The Micro Design Studio: Your Secret Weapon For Remote Collaboration

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 18, 2020 Design studios bring people with varied skill sets together to solve creative problems such as identifying what graphics or interactives will add a compelling visual dimension to a long form story. This session will describe how, even when we’re remote, designers, developers, and…

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Fireside Chat: What Makes Print Special In A Digital World

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 24, 2020 We live in a digital world. We communicated and consume information across multiple digital formats. However, traditional print mediums have a powerful and important role in communicating and connecting communities. Publications such as SND World’s Best Winner, The New York Times, have created…

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Ground Zero: Photographers And Visual Storytelling At Heart Of Local Protests

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 23, 2020 Photography is an essential form of communication that can connect a reader with a person, place or event. Photojournalists capture rare moments in time, often placing themselves in the heart of events that others can not. Photographers and visual leaders from Minneapolis, Seattle,…

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Let’s Eat, SND

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 23, 2020 We’ll show you how to incorporate food as a way to connect communities. SESSION TAKEAWAYS By the end of this session, you will be able to: How to build engagement with visually arresting contentDemonstrate the ways food connects to every content platformHow to…

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Behind The Asterisk

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 23, 2020 A conversation with the creative team behind The 19th*, a new nonprofit newsroom that aims to empower women, people of color, and those historically underserved by American media with the information, resources and community they need to be equal participants in our democracy.…

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