Edmund C. Arnold, Father of newspaper design is no more.

Edmund C. Arnold, a renowned journalist, newspaper design consultant and the father of the modern newspaper’s 8-column design is no more. He was 93.
Edmund Arnold was born on June 25, 1913. As a newspaper design consultant, he designed hundreds of newspapers in the US and abroad including the Boston Globe, National Observer, Today, Toronto Star and The Kansas City Star. He also worked as the Editor of The Linotype News, and as a columnist for Publisher's Auxiliary. He also helped a few newspapers in South America despite the fact that he knew no Spanish.
He was also the pioneer of the axiom that the top story for the day has to be placed on the right top corner of the front page which is a concept followed by editors for many years now. Another of his famous concepts is the Gutenberg Principle, which talks about how a reader approaches a newspaper, first from the top then down to the bottom and then turns the page. He was the first person to design the 8-column page (currently the industry standard) in a newspaper as against the old 6-column style. One thing always eluded his list of achievements was a new type of ink which wouldn’t rub off and make newspaper reading a better experience.
After his retirement, he lived in a retirement community in Virginia where he designed birthday cards and the community newsletter. He passed away on Feb 2^nd, 2007.

source: pressgazette.co.uk; image courtesy: nytimes.com