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Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 Society for News Design Tuesday, October 23, 2012

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At a workshop this fall in Cleveland, the Society for News Design honored Roger Black with its Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest individual award the Society can bestow,

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“He was the first designer I ever met who loved type.

He understood it and he worked with it masterfully.

He was light years ahead of his contemporaries.

If you want to know what you might be doing in a few

years, take a look at what Roger is doing today.

Jim ParkinsonType designer

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“You cannot speak about publication design in the last

40 years without including Roger Black as one of the

most prominent designers and influencers of magazine

and newspaper design. His own work and design

philosophy have shaped so much of what we consider

to be the fundamentals in editorial and typographical

design.

Eduardo Danilo

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“Roger put the Font Bureau on the map, in 1989,

when hardly anyone had heard of fonts, custom fonts,

much less Font Bureau, by just being Roger.

Roger’s single greatest contribution to the type

industry is his insistence on never stopping.

David BerlowCo-founder, The Font Bureau

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“Roger Black is one of our industry’s titans, a visionary ...

He is a perfectionist and the seeker of excellence.

Mario Garcia

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SUSAN BIDDLE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Adam Lewis made it his missionto rescue the District’sWikipedia page from mediocrity.

by Michael S. Rosenwald

The historian largely respon-sible for summing upWashington, D.C., for mil-

lions of Wikipedia readers digsfor facts from his tiny bedroom inDupont Circle. He sits on a chairborrowed from his four-piece di-nette set at a desk he boughtfrom Target, footnoting away onan old Dell computer. He is 24years old. Sometimes he makeshis bed.

His name is Adam Lewis — afact sure to surprise his closestfriends and even his parents,who are unaware that, for a yearor so, Lewis has been staying uplate to rescue the District’s Wiki-pedia page from vandals and me-

diocrity. Having grown up in thearea, Lewis felt an obligation todo the work but not to brag aboutit.

“I just really don’t think any-one would care,” Lewis said.

Lewis joined thousands of oth-er amateurs toiling in obscurityon Wikipedia, where facts aremore important than the star his-torians who tend to dominate thepopular view of history. On Wiki-pedia, anyone can be a historian.It’s easy: Most pages are editedjust by clicking on a button thatsays “edit this page.”

More than 150,000 users madechanges in the past 30 days, ac-cording to the site. Some, likeLewis, have user names and Wi-kipedia profiles. He goes by Ep-icAdam. Others are anonymous.

Almost everyone has a specialty.There are editors who just fixpunctuation. Some defend con-tent against vandals. Others, likeLewis, pull the content together.

Gatekeeper of D.C.’s entryRoad to city’s Wikipedia page goes through a Dupont Circle bedroom

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by Frank Ahrens and David Cho

The Federal Reserve joined theTreasury Department on Thurs-day in imposing new limits onexecutive pay, extending the gov-ernment’s control over compen-sation at taxpayer-owned compa-nies to institutions that aremerely government regulated.

The restrictions were the lat-est in more than a year’s worth ofgovernment intervention in mat-ters once considered inviolableaspects of the country’s free-market economy and represent asignal moment in the history ofthe American economic experi-ment. After years of setting mini-

mum wages, the government isnow telling some companies howthey should structure pay forthose who run them.

The actions Thursday put theUnited States more in line withEuropean governments. Franceand Germany, in particular, havepressed for international stan-dards to limit executive pay, amove that the United States andBritain have resisted.

At Treasury, President Oba-ma’s pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg,announced sharp cuts in pay for175 top executives at seven bigbanks and automakers that re-ceived hundreds of billions ofdollars in federal bailout moneyduring the financial crisis. Thenew structures reduced the cashsalary paid to some executives by90 percent and tied more com-pensation to long-term stockawards.

“There is entirely too much re-liance on cash, and there’s got tobe a better way to tie corporateperformance to long-term

Government widens controlover paychecks

BAILED-OUT FIRMS ARE FIRST

Measures aim to cut riskto companies, economy

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by Rosalind S. Heldermanand Anne E. Kornblut

Sensing that victory in the racefor Virginia governor is slippingaway, Democrats at the nationallevel are laying the ground-work to blame a loss in a keyswing state on a weak candi-date who ran a poor cam-paign that failed to fully em-brace President Obama untildays before the election.

Senior administration officialshave expressed frustration withhow Democrat R. Creigh Deedshas handled his campaign for gov-ernor, refusing early offers of stra-tegic advice and failing to reachout to several key constituenciesthat helped Obama win Virginiain 2008, they say.

Democratic strategists said thatover the summer, Virginia Gov.

Timothy M. Kaine (D) offeredDeeds advice on winning a state-wide election. Among otherthings, Kaine, who is also chair-man of the Democratic NationalCommittee, told Deeds that heshould lay out more of his own vi-sion and stop attacking Repub-lican Robert F. McDonnell so fero-ciously. But Deeds did not em-brace the advice, according to anational Democratic strategist.

A senior administration officialsaid Deeds badly erred onseveral fronts, including notdoing a better job of coordi-nating with the WhiteHouse. “I understood in thebeginning why there wassome reluctance to run all

around the state with Barack Oba-ma,” said the official, who spokeon condition of anonymity in or-der to speak candidly about therace. “You don’t do that in Vir-ginia. But when you consider theAfrican American turnout thatthey need, and then when youconsider as well they’ve got a huge

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Deeds ignored advice,White House says

Election loss wouldn’tbe reflection on Obama,

top Democrats say

VA09

by Rob Steinand Michael Laris

The federal government’s un-precedented campaign to protectthe nation against the swine flupandemic has gotten off to a sput-tering start, frustrating parents,pregnant women and others anx-ious to get immunized againstthe new virus.

With only a fraction of the tensof millions of doses of vaccinethat authorities predicted wouldbe available arriving in states, cit-ies and towns, public health offi-cials who spent months planningfor a massive immunization pro-gram are instead scrambling toparcel out their limited supply ofnasal sprays and shots.

As the number of children,teens and young adults who arefalling ill, being hospitalized andin rare cases dying rises, somehealth departments and doctorsare being flooded with calls fromworried, sometimes angry pa-tients.

“I’m going to give birth any sec-ond. I’m not going to go wait inline for a shot. It’s ridiculous. It’sso stupid,” said District residentAnastasia Dellaccio as sheshopped for baby clothes.

Federal officials defended theprogram Thursday, saying theywere frustrated by the slowerpace, too. They blamed the lag onthe need to ensure the vaccine’ssafety and effectiveness and un-expected problems such as the vi-rus growing unusually slowly andsnags at factories filling vialswith vaccine.

The situation is sometimes fur-ther complicated by incompleteor conflicting information onstate and local government Websites. Some jurisdictions are mak-ing health-care workers a top pri-ority, and others are putting chil-dren, pregnant women or othergroups first.

The Washington region, de-spite regular discussions amongofficials, has a patchwork of dis-tribution plans that has confusedsome and sent residents skippingfrom jurisdiction to jurisdictionin search of scant supplies.

Although polls show people re-main deeply ambivalent aboutthe vaccine, with less than halfsure they want to get inoculated,those who want to are finding itdifficult to get. Many health de-

Scrambleto parcelout H1N1vaccine

Doctors and patients frustrated as supply

falls short of promises

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Shermans are generals of Redskins’ offense

JOHN MCDONNELL / THE WASHINGTON POST

Sherman Lewis, right, Washington’s new play-caller, and offensive coordinator Sherman Smithobserve practice with Coach Jim Zorn in the background. See a photo gallery of Zorn and histop offensive assistants at Thursday’s practice, at washingtonpost.com/redskins.

by Karen DeYoung

Five years after his painful lossto George W. Bush, ending apresidential campaign in whichhe was accused of being an Iraqwar defeatist who was too willingto talk to America’s adversaries,Sen. John F. Kerry has finallyfound his place in the foreign pol-

icy spotlight.Not only has President Obama

advanced many of the senator’sideas, Vice President Biden’s elec-tion vacated for Kerry the chair-manship of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee, the legisla-tive branch’s leading foreign pol-icy pulpit.

Kerry’s role over the past weekin resolving, at least temporarily,the political turmoil in Afghani-stan brought him kudos fromObama, who thanked him pub-licly and called his successful ef-forts to persuade President Ha-mid Karzai to accept a runoff

election “extraordinarily con-structive.” It was Kerry, pressedinto action by the Obama admin-istration while on an unrelatedtrip to Afghanistan, who stood byKarzai’s side in Kabul on Wednes-day when the announcementabout the runoff was made. Forthe first time since 2004, the Mas-sachusetts Democrat’s face ap-peared on front pages across thecountry.

But Kerry has been careful todraw back before the administra-tion grows wary of his promi-nence on such a hot-button issue.When a reporter suggested that

he had become the “de facto sec-retary of state,” the senator grewflustered, sputtering, “I don’twant — you know, I don’t even — Idon’t think that’s appropriate, defacto, whatever, whatever.”

Scheduled weeks ago to give amajor speech on Afghanistan atthe Council on Foreign Relationson Friday, Kerry postponed it atthe last minute so that he couldattend an Obama address, alsoFriday, with more compelling im-peratives — Obama will speak inBoston, in Kerry’s home state, and HARAZ N. GHANBARI/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chairman John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) presides over a Senate ForeignRelations Committee hearing on NATO expansion.

For Kerry, a growing role on foreign policy stageSenator shrugs off

2004 loss to engagedeeply with world

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! Steven Pearlstein: Change goes only so far. 16A

! Top earners leave to avoid pay cuts. 20A

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“Roger taught me many lessons but perhaps the most important one was in any project to challenge all your assumptions.

The approach might make many uncomfortable. But it sure makes projects more exciting and productive. 

John Temple Former editor of the Rocky Mountain News

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“Roger, I am sending you a big hug.

Nanette Bisher

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ROGER BLACK : SND : CLEVELAND : 13 OCTOBER 2012

SND CLE

Ten lessonsI’ve learned

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1 . PAGES

News design is not just about page-design anymore.

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2 . CONTENT

As Lou Silverstein said, “Ask yourself what is the news content before you take a design to the desk.”

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3 . INFORMATION

To succeed as a visual editor, you have to be as well- or better-informed on the news and political issues than the text editors.

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4. HISTORY

By standing on the shoulders of others you can see farther, and avoid starting over.

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5 . DESIGN EQUITY

I try to hold on to the good parts of a publication’s design.

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6. INSPIRATION

Design ideas come from the real world—the city, art, and nature—not just the design world.

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7 . TECHNOLOGY

Technology is your friend. A designer doesn’t have to code, but I had to know understand how code works.

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8. PEOPLE

The best news design happens when the process is open and the best ideas get published, no matter who thought of them.

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9. THE READER

The best publication designers think of themselves as the agents of readers.

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10. LIFE

With all the stress around deadlines, the meltdown of the media and the economy, it’s easy to get lost in your work. I keep trying to get outside and be with real people . . .

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Thank you.

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