Newspaper design expert Tim Harrower will visit Elon April 1. Details ...
Tim Harrower, a newspaper design expert, will visit with
School of Communications students April 1. Harrower is the author of “Inside
Reporting,” the textbook used in all Media Writing classes, and “The Newspaper
Designer’s Handbook,” which is used in the Editing and Design course.
Harrower will host two sessions in the afternoon and evening
in McEwen 011. The first will be for Media Writing students and others
interested in improving their writing. The second will focus on design, writing
and editing techniques. More information about the sessions is below.
3:45 – 5:15 p.m.
Writing for
Non-Readers
Today’s
readers are overloaded, overstimulated, impatient, and easily bored. Want them
to actually read what you write? Here’s how to modernize your material:
turn those long, dull news and feature stories into smarter, shorter, more
interactive packages.
7 – 8:30 p.m.
Tomorrow’s Reader,
Yesterday’s Newspaper
An entertaining, visual overview of current trends (good and
bad) in writing, editing and design — and a discussion of what readers want
(and don’t want) in their newspaper, based on extensive surveys and focus-group
testing.