My suggestions to name the new project—and my design for logos to match—didn’t make the cut.But, mainly just because I’ve stumbled across the images I mocked up back then, here they are anyway: Proof I chose well by opting against a career as a graphic designer.
TribCast
The idea was that the Tribune would bring you news in realtime—you know, sort of like a broadcast from the Tribune over the internet.
But this was before streaming audio and video was a thing, and this idea went nowhere.
Tower TickerBack in 1998, the name “Tower Ticker”—callback to a Tribune newspaper column of the past and to the wire machines that were going extinct around the same time—drew snickers from some of the team.
But, ironically, the name was resurrected a decade later as the title of another blog: The home of Phil Rosenthal’s media reporting—which is where, in
Happily, although it doesn’t look like this anymore, Daywatch lives on as a daily email from the Trib. If you haven’t subscribed, you should.
And Daywatch paved the way for the startup I launched in January 2017: Chicago Public Square. You should check that out, too.
(Originally posted Dec. 9, 2015; updated Nov. 30, 2018—on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of my joining the Trib.)
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