Pablo Colón
Mr. Pablo Colon
Features Design Director
The Star-Ledger
Pablo Colón began his newspaper career as a high school junior when he was hired by The Home News in New Brunswick, N.J., part-time as a graphic artist in 1983. He joined the newspaper full-time in 1984 while he was a student at Rutgers University, majoring in marketing and graphic design. In 1996, he was recruited by the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger and was named features design director shortly thereafter. Pablo has won numerous prestigious awards from the Society Of Newspaper Design, an annual international design competition that draws entries from 50 countries. His work has also been recognized with a variety of national honors for newspaper design.
A firm believer in simplicity, Pablo chose a clean design for the NAHJ Spanish-language stylebook. He flavored the otherwise minimal design with tropical colors - sunny mango and passionate red - reminiscent of his vibrant Puerto Rican culture and heritage.
Biographies of the Panel of Judges
Tony Majeri Jr.
Senior Editor,
Chicago Tribune
Tony is currently serving as senior editor for innovation at the Chicago Tribune, working on new product initiatives for the paper and parent The Tribune Company. He was named to his current position in February 1992. Mr. Majeri is the recipient of numerous design awards. He has been a member of three Pulitzer Prize winning teams at the Chicago Tribune and also was part of the team that received the Tribune Presidential award for its recent redesign of the paper. Mr. Majeri was honored by Ball State University's journalism department, which created the Anton Majeri Award for innovation and leadership in graphic journalism.
Tony has received several awards including the 2000 Media Citation from the National Scholastic Press Association. Tony is a graduate of University of Illinois and a founder of the Society for News Design as well as a past president of the organization.
Bryan Monroe
Assistant Vice President/News
Knight Ridder
Bryan Monroe is Assistant Vice President/news, the second highest-ranking news executive of Knight Ridder. Before joining Knight Ridder's corporate staff, Bryan spent 16 years at various Knight Ridder papers, most notably the San Jose Mercury News, he was a deputy managing editor in 2002.
In 2003, Bryan completed a year as a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.Before coming to San Jose in 1991, Bryan was Assistant Project Director for Knight Ridder's 25/43 Project - a newspaper Research & Development project targeting readers age 25 to 43. He, Dr. Mario García and other key Knight Ridder editors worked out of the Knight Ridder paper in Boca Raton, Fla., redesigning and transforming it into a daily living laboratory for experimentation into the future of newspapers.
He has won numerous awards nationwide, has lectured from Sydney, Australia to Johannesburg, South Africa, has been recognized by Presstime magazine as one of the 20 top American journalists under 40, and was named by Mediaweek magazine as one of the nation's "Media Elite." In 2003, he was named as one of the 10 Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area by CityFlight magazine.
José Luis Díaz de Villegas, Jr.
Design Consultant
Former Senior Editor of design in El Nuevo Día
José Luis started his career in 1973 when he wrote the movie guide for El Nuevo Día Newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He eventually became senior editor of design. He also worked as executive and art director of the fashion magazine De Moda. With his illustrations and design works, Mr. Díaz de Villegas had won more than 50 prizes from the Society for News Design, including the Silver award for his portfolio of illustrations. In addition, he has served as a juror for the organization’s international competition.
José had designed and illustrated books for children and has prepared illustrations for many publicity agencies.
The NAHJ Spanish-language Stylebook will be published in October 2003. It is made possible through the sponsorship of Knight Ridder.
