Sunday, October 12, 2008
Launch night in Northern Virginia!
It's not often you get to launch a NEW newspaper, but we did exactly that tonight.
The Potomac News and Manassas Journal Messenger combined on Sunday night to create a new newspaper — the News & Messenger, based in Prince William County, Va., about 25 miles south of Washington, DC.
MG partner Scott Goldman led the way on the redesign, with MG partner Matt Mansfield on hand for launch weekend as well. The first night went very well, with the first good papers rolling off the press right on time!
Goldman lived about 10 minutes from the paper when he lived in Manassas, Va., in 1999-2004, when we worked at The Washington Post, so this was like a great trip back home for him.
The Font Bureau's lovely, powerful and versatile Antenna font family is used throughout the paper, with Utopia as the new body copy and Minion as an accent serif font for features.
View Matt Mansfield's profile