I wrote this magazine article for Design, the journal of the Society for News Design. The 5,000-word piece profiled legendary designer Frank Ariss and his revolutionary redesign of the Minneapolis Tribune in the early 1970s. You can download a pdf of the full article at:
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/mjodonnell/ariss/design_2009.pdf
You can view an audio slide show about the article at:
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/mjodonnell/ariss/index.html