New rules for newspapers

NEWSPAPER CLASSIFIED REDESIGNS

Miami Herald
Hartford Courant
Santa Fe New Mexican
Yakima Herald
Bakersfield Californian
Brainerd Dispatch
Wilson Daily Times
Birmingham News
Daily Press
Springfield Republican
The Morning Sun

NEWSPAPER
ONLINE DESIGN

Read Steve Outing's interview with Alan Jacobson and learn why newspaper web sites are seriously flawed. Then see alternatives.

EDITORIAL,
CLASSIFIED &
ONLINE REDESIGN

Our redesigns are catalysts for positive change. Visit the gallery to see how we've transformed publications and websites.

EDITORIAL REDESIGNS

Bakersfield Californian
RepublicanAmerican
The Eureka Reporter
Yakima Herald Republic
St. Louis Post‑Dispatch
The Virginian‑Pilot
Observer-Reporter
The Sunday News

ONLINE REDESIGNS

SunshineTimes.com
Wilsondaily.com
Mydailyrecord.com
blognewsnet.com
Observer-reporter.com
Reynolds at Reno
Online Media Solutions
Al Qarar
HomePagesUSA
Young Audiences of Virginia

REDESIGN WHITEPAPER

A redesign is a waste of time and money if it doesn't deliver a return on investment. Download our report to learn how to make your redesign pay off, then see how four newspapers boosted readership and revenue by following our advice.

TARGETED PUBLICATIONS

The Flagship
help@home
Stars & Stripes

INTERACTIVE TOUR

See in detail how a content-driven redesign did more than make a community daily look better – it made it a better paper.

RADICAL STRATEGIES FOR CIRCULATION WOES

The Herald & News
money, sexes, tech & stuff
Sunday Post-Dispatch

A newspaper war, that is. The Sunday Star Times, New Zealand's largest newspaper, faces fierce competition on the newsstand from two tabloids. So it was redesigned to improve its above-the-fold presentation. The complete story will appear here and in the next issue of SND's DESIGN.

The Californian's redesign earned it a spot on Editor & Publisher's list of “Ten That Do it Right.” According to E&P, Bakersfield is appealing to its “really, really conservative market with a really, really radical redesign.”

And it’s working.

Circulation stops are down and revenue is up – over a thousand inches in the redesigned real estate section alone. See before and after, see more pages and read the stories.

The Eureka (CA) Reporter was just a 6,000-circ. weekly in 2004. Our radical yet elegant redesign helped this startup weekly grow to a daily in less than two years. The Reporter goes head-to-head with an established daily owned by Dean Singleton, who told The San Francisco Chronicle last month that his competitor, “does some good design things.” The Society of News Design agrees – they cited this redesign as one of the best in the world. See more pages.