Here's a step-by-step guide every aspect to of newspaper design, from basic page layout to complex infographics. Professionals will find it loaded with examples, advice, design ideas, and exercises to help them manipulate photos, headlines, and text; create charts, maps, and diagrams; design attractive photo spreads; add appealing sidebars; create engaging feature layouts; and work with color.
This text does for reporting what Tim Harrower's The Newspaper Designer's Handbook has previously done for design: make it fun and accessible to newcomers. Harrower is an award-winning editor, designer and columnist who has previously taught at Portland State University and currently conducts journalism workshops. The second edition of Inside Reporting continues to emphasize the basics but also provides a wealth of information on online reporting and packaging stories in more visual, interactive ways. It also includes more useful information on feature writing--from stories to reviews and column-writing--than any other text in the field.