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I don't know if it's Florida or the fact that the games were on OLN, but I didn't even realize this was happening until yesterday. Did you? Regardless, a couple of nice pages from North Carolina. Raleigh did a clean job with impact, and Charlotte asks the burning question: Can Hurricanes' win create thirst for hockey.
I'm behind the times, I know it, but I feel like I've read somewhere that this is the "new" (quotes indicated my behind-the-times-ness) Monday Tampa Trib. The woman acting as Vanna White to the python kind of bothers me, but it's still the most interesting page from the region today. Gillin on the move
In other Florida news, Josh Gillin of the Philly Inquirer has taken a job at the Trib's rival, St. Pete's tbt*, a free youth-oriented pub.He tells Sarasota's Doug Jessmer: "It's a good little gig and shows how the Times is willing to devote resources and experiment with ways to win readership. It's gotten a very positive response and is aimed at younger readers, kind of like Red Eye for the Tampa Bay area."
Read more on the move at VizEds.Congrats, Josh. Welcome to Region 3.
The release of the state's grades for schools was the big news in Florida yesterday and I like this page by the Bradenton Herald. It's clean and navagable and I'm a fan of the "ups and downs" mimicking the pencils.
I think if there's an opportunity to put the word sex on page one we should do it. The Philly Daily News figured out how to do it three times (four if you count the word sexy on the cover of the GGW vid). I'm not sure how important FEMA aid for hurricanes Katrina and Rita is to that particular readership, but if I were in Philly, I'd care a lot today. I'd laugh, too. What a great page.
Ok, so it makes me crazy that I can't figure out this blogging thing. The design problems with this site make me want to pull out my hair. Please forgive.
Now, we got lots of good stuff from the region today! Zarqawi and others. Enjoy and comment. I like how the News-Press really made the death of Zarqawi local, and the Commercial Appeal is striking.
My one quibble of the day is that I keep seeing the black on the front of the State as opposite, like the tan boxes are not on top of the black box, but rather there's black lines between the boxes. Does anyone understand what I'm saying? Does anyone else see it too?
UPDATE: Master of all things copy desk related, Fred Vultee at the University of Missouri, posts this about the State's page over at his super blog Headsup:
Every now and then one of your originating desks gets .... well, original, and tries to "add" "value" to something it isn't set up to add value to. That's the problem with this enterprising centerpiece. Steering away from the who-what-where approach on a story that's been in play since 3 the previous morning is the right idea. But not all such efforts are equal, and this one should have been thrown back. It subtracts more from the sum of human knowledge than it adds.
I won't lie, I didn't read the page before I posted it here, and still think it's well designed, but Freddo makes some good points as well as sending folks to the conversation on the same topic at Testy Copy Editors. Obviously, we don't know from where the content originated, so I hope I'm not offending a well-meaning designer, though I believe that's Mr. Vultee's point; the idea wasn't bad, necessarily, just not, um, good. Discuss.
I'm behind the times, I know it, but I feel like I've read somewhere that this is the "new" (quotes indicated my behind-the-times-ness) Monday Tampa Trib. The woman acting as Vanna White to the python kind of bothers me, but it's still the most interesting page from the region today. 
