More new Newspapers Training courses now available online

How do you create the best ads for print?

In this inspiring session for the sales and advertising creative departments you can learn what can be accomplished in the print medium when you start with a good idea.

Speaker Ann Urban looks at award-winning examples and the best practices behind them.

For more than 25 years, Ann Urban has worked in the highest levels of Canadian advertising. As an Associate Creative Director at Ogilvy & Mather, she helped build major multi-national brands for American Express, Campbells Soup, Duracell, Unilever, General Foods and many more.

Ann graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with scholarships in both design and advertising, and quickly moved on to senior positions at several major multi-national agencies, including Ogilvy, McCann-Erickson and JWT. While at these top companies she judged award shows and participated in international workshops. In 1991, she formed Urban & Co., where she has built profitable brands for over a hundred blue-chip companies.

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Newspapertraining.ca is an education hub created BY community newspapers FOR community newspapers. This portal has been built with all newspaper staff in mind – from editorial and sales, to design and management.

The industry is transforming and so are the skills needed to work in and manage it. Stay up-to-date with articles, tips, videos, webinars, Q&As, expert interviews, training modules and more.

Our goal is to create a forum where reporters, editors, sales teams and publishers come together to share innovative ideas that help make community newspapers go-to sources of information for Canadians.