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I just fulfilled a lifelong ambition of making a newspaper. A proper tabloid one that is, on 45 gsm paper, with a canny big print run.
Big thanks to the talented team at Warm Design, who did the artwork and typesetting, and Newspaper Club, for a fabulous print job.
The paper is a special print edition of the alumni newsletter I write for Newcastle University, produced for this year’s summer graduation. It contains info about what graduates get from the Uni after leaving, some quirky infographics about locations and career paths, a few interviews with interesting alumni, and a big aerial photo of Newcastle in the centre pages. Take a look here if you fancy.
I’m really impressed with the service we got from Newspaper Club. I first heard about it from founders Russell Davies and Ben Terrett at Thinking Digital 2009, an annual conference in Newcastle about technology and the future (for which I volunteer). Their ethos is simple: print is here to stay – it’s much nicer than the web and it should be accessible to more people.
It’s great that newspapers are no longer just the dominion of the media-mighty. I saw a funny tweet from Edinburgh bookshop, Analogue Books, the other day, who blamed Newspaper Club for a massive increase in small-run newsprint on its shelves.
Mainstream newspaper circulation may be dwindling, but niche products are on the up, and they’re far more exciting.
