{"id":1164,"date":"2008-07-21T21:44:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2008-07-21T21:44:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:44:28","slug":"harold-evans-on-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/07\/harold-evans-on-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Harold Evans on the <em>New York Times<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/48600091327@N01\/2178678479\" alt=\"New York Times building by Amit Gupta\" title=\"New York Times building by Amit Gupta\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2060\/2178678479_eeb7833a73_m.jpg\" class=\"alignright frame\" \/><\/a><span class=\"drop_cap\">G<\/span>reat interview with <strong>Harold Evans<\/strong> in the <em><strong>Independent<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Should <em>The New York Times<\/em> be redesigned? Absolutely,&#8221; he says. &#8220;To give you one simple example of newspaper design. If you have one very attentive ear, you can hear rows in New York as people try to follow a section jump, from the first section to C section. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If your wife or husband is already reading the C section and you have a jump, it&#8217;s impossible. The New York Times desperately needs to rethink its whole design.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> may have held up changes for fear of upsetting its conservative readership but do things lose their authority by bowing to the seductions of colour and design? &#8220;No,&#8221; says Evans. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The same argument is used when the [British-based] <em>Times<\/em> put news on the front page, the same argument was used against me when I put information on the back page. It&#8217;s bullshit. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does the authority consist of? Does it consist of a small type and slovenly presentation and classified advertising? No. It consists of the clear visual signal and how you organise the values on the page. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most important thing is: &#8216;Is it giving me a calibration of news values?&#8217; You don&#8217;t lose authority by organising things clearly. You actually lose authority by presenting things in a way that appears [as though] you haven&#8217;t thought about the space.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great interview with Harold Evans in the Independent: &#8220;Should The New York Times be redesigned? Absolutely,&#8221; he says. &#8220;To give you one simple example of newspaper design. If you have one very attentive ear, you can hear rows in New York as people try to follow a section jump, from the first section to C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1704,1706,1705],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-classified-advertising","tag-harold-evans","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}