It might be your type

"Designing with Type," a conference at the Poynter Institute, will be held May 11-13 in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Geared toward both the recent journalism graduate and the veteran news artist, the conference will address issues such as creating drama and excitement through the limited font palette, making type selections in the redesign process to complement a redefined mission and audience as well as mastering ways to discuss, critique, manage and teach excellence in typographic design.

Faculty include Consultant Roger Black, Kim Elam of the Ringling School of Art and Design, Poynter Institute Affiliate Mario Garcia, Consultant Lucie Lacava, Poynter Institute Faculty Monica Moses, Vibe Magazine's Robert Newman, Typographer Jim Parkinson and Rob Reason, assistant managing editor for design and photography at the Chicago Sun Times and type conference director.

The Poynter Institute, (727) 821-9494; e-mail: info@poynter.org

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...

"I would wonder whether 10 years from now we will have entered an era of two-tiered multimedia publishers. On the high end will be the big boys with the video cameras in the hands of everyone on their staff -- not just journalists, but everyone on the payroll, feeding one or more web sites under one umbrella (look at the Chicago Tribune universe of seven Chicagoland web sites for a model.) On the low end will be the small papers, which even then may not have been able to justify the cost of moving into video and, which will publish in two dimensions, print and web, not three -- print, web and video."

-- Pete Wetmore

See-eye-ohs: At Knight Ridder of San Jose, Steve Hannah has been named as vice president, technology; previously Hannah was vice president and CIO of Gazette Communications of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. While at Gazette, Hannah led the development of a Windows-based data warehouse system for the company. The system was so successful in-house, the company approved creation of Gazette Technologies as a separate business unit to sell and support it. In earlier lives, Hannah was computer services manager for the Milwaukee's Journal/Sentinel Inc. and before that he held several systems positions at the Detroit News. ... At Nebraska's Omaha World Herald, Mark Wilkins has been named director of information technology; previously Wilkins had been CIO of Omaha's Empire Fire and Marine Insurance Co. ...

New media mavens: At Hearst Interactive Media of New York City, Darcy Bentley and Timothy Ladin have been named directors of business development. Bentley was formerly vice president of e2enet Inc. and Ladin was an associate at Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells L.L.P. ... At KnightRidder.com of San Jose, Tally Liu has been appointed senior vice president for finance and operations; formerly, Liu was a vice president of parent company Knight Ridder and earlier he was vice president and CFO of the San Jose Mercury News. ... At E.W. Scripps Co. of Cincinatti, Frank Gardner has been named to the newly created position of senior vice president for interactive media. Gardner has been senior vice president for television for Scripps since 1993. ... At the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, Nick Rogosienski has been named vice president, interactive media; most recently Rogosienski had been director of sales and marketing for new media at the paper and had served as site manager for the paper's Home Zone classified web site. Also at the Star Tribune, Tim McGuire, editor and senior vice president, who started startribune.com, now becomes chairman of the internal board of directors that will "serve to govern strategy and reconcile resource priorities." ... At New York Times Digital (note the new name,) Alice Ting has been named director of strategy. Previously, Ting was principal consultant in the entertainment and media corporate strategy group at PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting. ...

Vendor virtues: At AdOne L.L.C. of New York, four regional general managers have been named. Rosemary Snow is general manager for the West region; most recently, Snow was with Classified Ventures.

Steve Stocks is general manager for the South region; most recently, Stocks was classified advertising manager at The Advocate in Baton Rouge, La. Susanna Stroud Mapies is general manager for the Southwest region; most recently, she worked for the Denver Rocky Mountain News as an advertising national account manager. Katherine Wager is general manager for the Northwest region; she too came from the Denver Rocky Mountain News, where she was the advertising national account manager for the Northeast region. ... At Applied Graphics Technologics Inc. of New York, Derek Ashley has been named chief executive officer; most recently, he had been vice chairman and chief operating officer. Previously, Ashley was with the Wace Group Plc., which was acquired by AGT last year. Fred Drasner, AGT's former chairman and chief executive officer, will continue in his role as chairman and will serve as chairman of the executive committee of the board. ... At the Associated Press in New York, Thomas Slaughter, an AP vice president and director of strategic planning since 1993, has been named director of AP Digital. ... At Atex Media Solutions Inc. of Bedford, Mass., Roberto Zerbino has been named managing director of Atex Latin America. Previously he was regional sales manager at Goss Graphic Systems for Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean, and he held sales management positions with Hyphen Latin America Inc. and DuPont Newspaper Systems. ... At Mactive Inc. of Melbourne, Fla., Don Rich has been named West Coast sales manager. Previously, Rich was with System Integrators Inc. and CE Engineering Publishing Systems Inc. Also at Mactive, Carrie DeGarmo has joined the company's Implementation Services team; previously DeGarmo was project manager for a classified system at Fayetteville Publishing Co. of North Carolina and before that was a telemarketing manager. ... At Managing Editor Inc. of Jenkintown, Pa., Buck Davis has been named southeast sales manager; previously, Davis was with Software Consulting Services. Also at Managing Editor, William Ryker has been named the MidAtlantic territory manager; previously Ryker was an account manager with SCS. ... At Pageflex, a subsidiary of Cambridge, Mass.-based Bitstream, Sang Lee has been named veep of business development. Previously, Lee was director of strategic business development for Adobe and was also president and COO of Harlequin. Before that he was the general manager of Dainippon Screen Engineering of America. ... At Shira Inc. of Woburn, Mass., Martin Breslow has been named chief executive officer. Most recently, Breslow was vice president of prepress technology at Shira and is the former director of computer-to-plate and digital-ad technology for Applied Graphics Technologies. Breslow succeeds Stuart Rudolph, who recently resigned. ... At Xitron of Ann Arbor, Mich., Andy Buxton has been named general manager of international sales for High Water Designs Ltd. and has also held positions at Linotype and Compugraphic. ...

Confabs: Web Advertising 2000 will be held April 10-12 in New York. For more information, call (206) 285-0305 or send e-mail to wcbad@thunderlizard.com ... Comdex/Windows World will be held April 17-20 in Chicago. Speakers include Ed Zantler of Sun Microsystems and Alan Kessler of Palm Computing. For more information point your browser at http://www.comdex.com ... "Can newspapers survive in a digital world?" will be one of the blunt questions asked at the World Newspaper Congress, to be held June 11-14 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Speakers include Fredrik Gren and Luis Ubinas of McKinsey & Co., Gavin O'Reilly of Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd. and John Puerner of Florida's Orlando Sentinel Communications. For more information on the World Newspaper Congress, send e-mail to cbanmeyer@wan.asso.fr... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, April 2000, Copyright © 2000, All Rights Reserved.