Designing for a small paper

While college students majoring with an emphasis in journalism dream of working at a large metropolitan newspaper straight out of college, most students will land jobs at smaller, more community based papers before making it to the big time.

These smaller newspapers have a different audiences and in many cases they have less resources available that can make design a difficult task to accomplish.

I recently found a great collection of design tips for small newspapers at newspagedesigner.com that the site's creators compiled.