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April 23: A ceremonial throwing of the shoes in Iowa

Did you know that when a wrestler retires, he ceremoniously tosses his shoes into the audience? Me, neither. But then again, I grew up in the South, where high school and collegiate wrestling isn’t really all that popular. Jeremy Gustafson — sports team leader for the Gannett Design Studio in Des Moines, Iowa — tells us: Sunday was the final [...]

April 22: St. Louis Post-Dispatch looks back on last year’s tornado

Given all the terrible storms that struck places like Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Joplin, Mo., last year, it’s easy to forget the tornado that struck St. Louis. Had it not been for the direct hit on Lambert Airport, we might not remember that one at all. But that’s only because most of us don’t live in St. Louis. Tornadoes wield tremendous [...]

April 19: French group launches photo copyright awareness compaign (1)

Photographers, it seems, are constantly getting screwed over by people who steal their work. So a French organization — the Union des Photographes Professionnels – Auteurs — launched a new awareness campaign earlier this month featuring this kind-of-shocking, kind-of-amusing image that has certainly done its job in getting people talking. The British Journal of Photography quotes the organization as saying: [...]

April 18: The only space shuttle Discovery page I’m going to show you today (5)

Many, many newspapers today built nice pages with photos of the shuttle Discovery, orbiting downtown Washington, D.C., on the back of a NASA 747 en route to its new home at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles airport. I was tempted to do a roundup of the best. But after I saw the front [...]

April 12: More about the iPhone-wielding 17-year-old who shot the iconic jet crash photo last week in Virginia Beach

Yesterday, the Virginian-Pilot ran a story about a 17-year-old 11th grader who took this photo of last week’s F/A-18D Hornet crash here in Virginia Beach. The Pilot‘s Scott Daugherty reports: When a fighter jet crashed into an apartment building Friday, Zack Zapatero dropped his tennis racket, picked up his iPhone 4S and started snapping pictures. The 17-year-old junior at Cape [...]

April 8: Lexington Herald-Leader’s NCAA basketball championship special section

The Lexington Herald-Leader inserted a special section today commemorating the University of Kentucky’s NCAA men’s basketball championship. The front-page photo was taken by the Herald-Leader‘s Mark Cornelison. Lead sports designer Dennis Varney tells us: Our 28-page UK championship retrospective was a showcase for our best photos of the year. And after we did extremely well selling reprints of our front [...]

April 8: Not exactly your typical feel-good Easter Sunday story

By no means is this your typical feel-good Easter Sunday story. But today’s front-page centerpiece in the Las Vegas Sun is an important story and one well-told. The story is a column by by L. Patrick Coolican, describing the life of an 18-year-old local girl who was forced into prostitution two years ago by her boyfriend. Apparently, this is the [...]

April 6: Tampa Bay Times’ baseball preview section: A technogeek, ‘Moneyball’-like approach (1)

Today, the Tampa Bay Times of St. Petersburg, Fla., inserted a special section for the start of baseball season. The Times‘ Suzette Moyer tells us: Designer Tom Bassinger did a bang-up job on this year’s Tampa Bay Rays baseball section. In the past, it’s been a broadsheet, but Tom thought he could make things work more compactly in a 20-page [...]

April 6: More baseball Opening Day front pages

Yesterday, we took a look at a big batch of baseball Opening Day front pages. Here’s another set. Enjoy… — JOURNAL SENTINEL Milwaukee, Wis. Circulation: 188,819 Our “aw, cute” moment of the day is by Journal Sentinel staffer Michael Sears, who captured third baseman Aramis Ramirez teaching his two small children the correct way to stretch. The Journal Sentinel wisely [...]

April 5: A starting lineup of the day’s best Opening Day front pages (3)

The first Major-League Baseball game of the season was played last night in Miami. — UPDATE – 5 p.m. Mark Friesen of the Portland Oregonian points out: Third game of the season, actually. Seattle and Oakland played two games in Japan last week. Ah, who counts the American League? That designated hitter stuff ain’t real baseball! Anyway, point taken. — [...]

April 4: How Dallas and Fort Worth played yesterday’s terrifying tornadoes (1)

Two supercell storms ripped through the Dallas/Fort Worth area yesterday. A dozen or so fearsome tornadoes were the result. Amazingly, no one was killed. Typically when things like this happen, we end up with damage-and-destruction aftermath photos on page one. Those are often awe-inspiring photos. The rarity is when we find a front-page photo of an actual tornado itself. Which [...]

April 3: A look at today’s NCAA Championship front pages (1)

Kentucky pulled out a nice eight-point victory last night to top Kansas for the NCAA men’s basketball championship. Here’s a look at the way the result was played on front pages in Kentucky and Kansas… — HERALD-LEADER Lexington, Ky. Circulation: 89,050 This is the eighth national title for Kentucky. The Herald-Leader made that the focus of a poster treatment on [...]

April 2: Painting a picture with mug shots

Has the media distorted the entire Trayvon Martin incident? I’m not sure I’m qualified to have an opinion on it. I was out of the country when this story blew up, went viral and then was debated ad nauseum. Most of the “analytical” pieces I’ve seen so far on the incident — and subsequent coverage — has seemed to be [...]

April 1: Today’s basketball Final Four front pages

Your team goes to the Final Four in New Orleans Saturday, wins and secures a place in Monday’s NCAA Basketball Championship game. So what do you do on page one today? You clear your front and go with basketball, of course. Because there ain’t no madness like March Madness. — LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER Lexington, Ky. Circulation: 89,050 A humongous battle between [...]

March 25: R.I.P. longtime Kinston (N.C.) Free Press photog Charles Buchanan

Kinston (N.C.) Free Press photographer Charles Buchanan — an employee of the paper for 35 years — passed away of a heart attack Thursday. He was 63. Charles grew up in Kinston, attended the University of North Carolina and then joined the Free Press in 1976. Included in the story by managing editor Bryan Hanks are quotes about Charles from [...]

March 25: A stunning basketball maneuver results in a stunning photo

While the rest of the sports world is watching the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, there is also a women’s college basketball tournament going on. It’s typical that the men’s tourney gets more attention than the women’s. One of the regional semifinals is being held in Des Moines, Iowa, where powerhouse Baylor defeated Georgia Tech by 15 points Saturday, preserving its [...]

March 18: Happy times on page one (1)

With all my trip preparations — and then the start of my trip itself — I haven’t had a chance to do much with the NCAA tournament this year. I did steal a few minutes today, however, to check out the Newseum. And I saw a number of very, very happy college hoopsters around the country. You gotta love art [...]

March 13: Calling all fans of sports photography

Do you have a discount store in your area called Five Below? It’s like a dollar store, except everything is priced $5 or less. The chain is based in Philadelphia. Everything there is a “close out,” so they don’t take returns at all. We stopped by our local Five Below last night, where I spotted something you should know about: [...]

March 12: A look at a few notable Bracket Monday pages

Today is one of the biggest days of the year for any sports section: The day we present to our readers this year’s NCAA basketball tournament brackets. Years ago, all the better papers out there began building their sections around themes. Over time, those themes have become a) more inventive, and b) better executed. Meaning it’s a great time to [...]

March 10: No more topless women on page one, says Germany’s Bild

And era has ended. Sort of. German tabloid Bild on Friday ended its longstanding practice of running a picture of a topless girl on page one. It was a publicity stunt, to be sure. The decision — “by men, on International Women’s Day” –  was the lead story on Friday’s front page. That little label next to the woman’s head… [...]

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