Redesigns
Creative Circle helps redesign two metro newspapers for narrower web widths
The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and The Advocate in Baton Rouge switched to a narrower web width for their print newspapers on May 1 and readers approved. Creative Circle Media helped both papers make the change as reader-centric as possible.
Saving small newspapers is a passion for Creative Circle
Two small, rural towns in South Dakota are battling to save their newspapers, and Creative Circle has stepped in to help. The De Smet News and The Lake Preston Times – have a combined weekly circulation of about 1,900.
Taos News redesigns, switches to five column ad format with Creative Circle
The Taos News switch to a five-column format as part of a redesign with Creative Circle that launched July 18. "The Taos News is one of the best weekly papers in the United States," said Bill …
Redesign was absolutely worth it
It was absolutely worth it. . . . We would have never gotten here if we did this internally.
Rhode Island Catholic gets new branding, redesign
Renamed The Rhode Island Catholic, the redesign launched on an accellerated schedule requested by Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, who had recently been named to the post. He thought the name change needed to be made as soon as possible. The print redesign was followed by the launch of a new web site two months later.
Fresh, clean and consistent design takes Inland content up a notch
Creative Circle’s expanding “Creative outsourcing” service is helping the Inland Press Association improve everything it produces. Inland outsourced its design, marketing and production duties to Creative Circle
PAGE Cooperative selects Creative Circle as a preferred vendor
PROVIDENCE, R.I.  –  It’s good to be preferred. Longtime clients of Creative Circle Media Solutions will tell you the industry’s most innovative consulting, training …
Alabama weekly gets new identity, longer shelf life with Creative Circle redesign
PROVIDENCE, R.I.  – Readers in Baldwin County, Alabama, are enjoying a weekly newspaper with a new identity – The Baldwin Times, a countywide paper with a more relevant, modern …
Fresh, clean and consistent design takes Inland content up a notch
Creative Circle’s expanding “Creative outsourcing” service is helping the Inland Press Association improve everything it produces. Inland outsourced its design, marketing and …
Circulation gain turns the tide after NewsTribune redesign
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – It’s a new day at the NewsTribune in La Salle, Illinois, where print circulation is up, and the leadership and staff are celebrating a turning of the tide.
PBN redesign more tuned in to readers, advertisers in digital age
The Providence Business News needed not just a new look, but a new model that matched content to a news cycle that’s been disrupted by digital. That meant bringing in Creative Circle Media …
Kentucky Today: A one-stop place for news, a forum for Christian voices
Roger Alford wanted Kentucky Baptists to have a one-stop place for news from a Christian perspective. As an experienced Associated Press bureau chief, he was sure on this point, too: The website must …
Dazzling display: New ANC website debuts with sophisticated, flexible design
ANC Sports Enterprises went live Dec. 7 with a dynamic website powered by Creative Circle Media Solutions that features maximum flexibility.
Le Provocateur celebrates anniversary with modern look that honors tradition
For the 50th anniversary of Le Provocateur, the student-run newspaper of Assumption College, it was time for a sharper, modern presentation that linked back to the paper’s roots. The result? …
Just the jolt it needed: AgriNews redesign embeds a reader-first philosophy at every step
With a dwindling audience and new competition on the horizon, the AgriNews needed a jolt if it was going to keep being relevant to its nearly 40,000 readers in Illinois and 20,000-some readers in Indiana.
Occupy Peace launches a ‘historic’ global peace rally with a grass-roots touch
Imagine a global peace movement that combines the best of grass-roots branding with polished, professional design. That’s exactly what happened with Occupy Peace, when Trends Research Institute turned to Creative Circle Media Solutions for a website that would capture the heart of the movement.
Project with Creative Circle injects paper with excitement and a new plan for success
It’s not just a redesign, it’s a rethink. Two months after the launch of the print redesign of The Sumter Item in Sumter, S.C., the changes are dramatic – satisfied readers, a …
Inland Press Association rebrands with Creative Circle
A bold, fresh brand that starts the conversation – that’s the new message that Inland Press Association has been signaling to its more than 1,100 members since Creative Circle Media Solutions rebranded the industry organization in spring 2014.
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Trends Journal publisher got what he wanted – a unique, visual design to match the content of his global magazine
After redesigning the print magazine and establishing a stronger brand for this unique, international magazine, it was time to overhaul their web site. Their old site was on a WordPress platform. …
New approach can turn classifieds back into gold
Instead of bemoaning the loss of old categories in classifieds, a strategy of developing new categories has turned into significant print classified revenue growth at the Times-Herald Record in Middletown, N.Y.
Spanish weekly gets an upgrade
When we were asked to redesign Su Guia, we knew we had to make sure the publication took its readers more seriously. One thing we've learned in helping dozens of papers with niche products is that …
Upscale lifestyle magazine needed a name change and a sophistication upgrade
You can't just say you are classy and sophisticated. You have to look that way, too!
New zoning strategy help The Daily Gazette snag more market share
Putting a stronger focus on local news was a major goal of this redesign. We repackaged all the paper's local coverage and created a way to efficiently zone local content. We also worked to …
THE NEWPORT DAILY NEWS, Newport, R.I.
For 160 years, the 19,000-circulation Newport Daily News has been a fixture in southern Rhode Island. Today it continues its proud newspapering tradition, but with an updated design and a stronger …
Age-old brand gets modern treatment
"The oldest local newspaper gets an extreme makeover." That's how The Newport Daily News announced the launch of Mercury in March, 2005. The Newport Mercury was started in 1758 and had been …
Arvada Press gets a fresh design and new strategy with Creative Circle
Creative Circle redesigned four weeklies in Denver's western suburbs – the Arvada Press, Golden Transcript, Lakewood Sentinel and Wheat Ridge Transcript. We also helped the management team with a …
ULSTER COUNTY PRESS Ulster County, N.Y.
ULSTER COUNTY PRESS Ulster County, N.Y. Lori Childers, publisher of a small, paid circulation semiweekly in Stone Ridge, N.Y., had a dream – to create a free, county-wide weekly for …
Scripps turns to Creative Circle to rebrand its Treasure Coast Newspaper group
Your hometown newspaper - only better. That was what top managers wanted for Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, a group of four dailies in a section of southeastern Florida known as the Treasure …
Training and content focus drew Rock Springs publisher to Creative Circle
The first full redesign in the 128-year history of this community newspaper lived up to its unique name, by doing hard digging and taking off to new places.The Rocket-Miner, started in 1881, launched …
Why Creative Circle was the right choice for The Bermuda Sun
Working with Creative Media Circle has been an outstanding success. Like many relatively small operations, the resources were limited. Bill and Jennifer quickly tuned into our dynamics and came up with proposals that were both appealing and achievable
A newspaper for Bermudians is reborn
We were very excited to have an opportunity to help the Bermuda Sun. Like many family newspaper owners we deal with, Randy French, the paper’s publisher and owner, was passionate about his paper …
Arlington Catholic gets even better with redesign
The Catholic Herald in Arllington, Va., was an award-winning paper before they came to Creative Circle about upgrading their print newspaper. But they got even better after their redesign.
Florida Catholic's six editions renewed with Creative Circle redesign
With six editions covering six diocese across the state of Florida, a production hub in Orlando and five bureaus answering to six different Bishops, the Florida Catholic redesign was a little more complicated than most!