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Jan. 19: The Iowa Caucus results are finally in. The loser: The Iowa Caucus.

You might recall the Iowa Caucus, earlier this month.     Mitt Romney topped Rick Santorum by only eight votes, in the initial, unofficial count. Ron Paul also did surprisingly well. We were told that the state Republican party would retally everything and certify the results in a week and a half or so. Fast-forward 16 days. The results are [...]

Jan. 4: A look at the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Caucus coverage (1)

The late returns — and the surprisingly close results — of last night’s Iowa Caucus made for a very late night for my friends in the Gannett Design Studio and the Des Moines Register. The front page of today’s Register — circulation 105,151 — went through a number of changes as the evening wound down.         Nathan [...]

Jan. 1: A political illustration today on the front of Iowa’s largest newspaper

There’s a bit of buzz out there today about the illustration on the front of today’s Des Moines Register. You’re looking at Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, the frontrunners in the most recent Iowa Poll, released last night. The GOP Iowa caucus, of course, will be held Tuesday night. So political nerds are watching this [...]

Dec. 16, 2011: Cheap Christmas gift alert

Looking for a cheap but fun Christmas gift? Why not buy from a visual journalism colleague? — For that lover of the classic sounds of early rock ‘n roll, what could be a better stuffer than a fresh and detailed story of the last tour of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper? The Day the Music Died is [...]

Nov. 25, 2011: More of today’s football-themed pages

Earlier today, we took a look at Iron Bowl football pages from Alabama and especially from the Huntsville Times. There are — and were — other big football games around the country this weekend. Papers found interesting ways to display these games. — OMAHA WORLD-HERALD Omaha, Neb. Circulation: 135,282 The University of Nebraska has joined the Big 10 conference. Their [...]

Nov. 19, 2011: A huge loss both on the field and off for Oklahoma State

Big news in the sports world last night on two different fronts. 1. The No. 2-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys lost to unranked Iowa State in double overtime. That’s a huge shocker. 2. Also, a small plane carrying the Oklahoma State women’s basketball coach and his assistant coach and two other people crashed, killing them all. This is the second time [...]

Nov. 13, 2011: A look at Sunday’s Penn State football front pages (3)

Saturday marked the first Penn State University football game since 1949 that Joe Paterno wasn’t on the sidelines and the first since 1966 in which he wasn’t head coach for the Nittany Lions. This was traumatic to players and Penn State fans. Others, of course, were quick to point out that this wasn’t nearly as traumatic as what happened to [...]

Sept. 11, 2011: A look at today’s 9/11 anniversary newspaper visuals (8)

There’s a lot of amazing work out there today. So amazing, in fact, that I was a little swamped trying to process it all. My solution was to try something unusual. I posted the first half of my material so folks could begin digesting it. And then I added as the afternoon faded into evening. Not the way I’d prefer [...]

Sept. 11, 2011: Yet another awesome sideways sports front from the Des Moines Register

My former colleague Jeremy Gustafson from Des Moines writes overnight: I am now the sports team leader in the design studio here in Des Moines. …Eventually I will oversee 20-plus papers, but for now we’re still just producing the [Des Moines] Register. We had a great night Saturday. I’m probably at risk at becoming Mr. Sideways Page, but when you [...]

Sept. 10, 2011: The most notable of Friday’s and Saturday’s 9/11 anniversary pages (1)

Oh, the 9/11 tribute pages have come fast and furious late this week. Dozens upon dozens of them. Many of them looking the same. There’s simply no way to show them all. I hope your feelings don’t get hurt if I leave yours out. Expecting to see a ton of pages tomorrow, I thought we’d look back tonight and pull [...]

Aug. 21, 2011: Our first football preview section: The Des Moines Register

Bryce Miller — sports editor of the Des Moines Register — sent us his paper’s annual football preview edition, which inserted today. Bryce writes: We had some fun with Nebraska’s soon-to-be-arrival in the Big Ten with a “new beginnings” theme, focusing the cover and cover story on Nebraska. [Illustrator] Mark Marturello knocked the cover out of the park, as usual [...]

Aug. 9, 2011: A quick look at Tuesday’s stock market front pages

It’s awfully late tonight, but I hated to let the day pass without drawing your attention to a few notable front pages, as found today at the Newseum… — BEST USE OF FEVER LINE It may have been a little difficult to go with the standard huge red fever chart on page one today, given that so many papers led [...]

Aug. 7, 2011: Behind the Des Moines Register’s sideways sports front (1)

Bryce Miller — executive sports editor of the Des Moines Register — wrote this afternoon while I was in transit: You should see the sports front today in the Register — from Jeremy Gustafson and Nathan Groepper. There was a crazy finish at the NASCAR Nationwide Series race in Newton (a track maybe 20 minutes east of Des Moines). The [...]

July 9, 2011: Thirty notable front pages showing the final space shuttle launch

Our mission today: To dig through today’s archive at the Newseum and look for 30 interesting front page treatments featuring Friday’s space shuttle launch — the last of the program — as a way of commemorating the 30 years (plus three months) since the first shuttle flight. That’s a lot of pages, so I’ve tried to organize them for you [...]

May 2, 2011: The stories behind today’s Osama bin Laden front pages (3)

What we had today was a story for which we had no real live art of the event itself. If you were designing Monday’s page one, your choices were to build your page around one of these visuals: A file photo of Osama bin Laden. A photo of President Barack Obama standing behind a podium. A photo of crowds outside [...]

May 2, 2011: Tomorrow’s front pages today (2)

A small selection of front pages from tomorrow’s newspapers, blatantly stolen from Facebook and Twitter feeds… Chicago Sun-Times Circulation 250,747 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Circulation 181,504 Casper, Wyo., Star Tribune Circulation 24,121 Twin Falls, Idaho, Times-News Circulation 23,081 Charlotte, N.C., Observer Circulation 155,995 Fort Myers, Fla., News-Press Circulation 56,834 Albany, N.Y. Times Union Circulation: 68,992 Rochester, N.Y. Democrat and Chronicle Circulation: 119,399 [...]

April 30, 2011: A little royal kissy-face for page one

Well, anyone interested in Friday’s royal wedding must be happy today with their newspapers. Seems like everywhere you go, you see the now-iconic photo of Prince William kissing his bride, Kate Middleton, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Or: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they’re known now. Here’s the Guardian — circulation 283,063 — with what is typical [...]

April 25, 2011: A fun front-page illustration of the Donald

I didn’t see a lot to brag about today in my daily sweep through the Newseum. Other than this, perhaps: A truly outstanding cartoon portrait of potential presidential candidate Donald Trump. That was drawn by brilliant long-time illustrator Mark Marturello of the Des Moines Register. Here’s how the 109,095-circulation Register played the illustration today: No slight intended to all the [...]

Feb. 12, 2011: Des Moines’ Nathan Groepper named creative director of Gannett design studio (1)

Des Moines Register editor Rick Green announced Friday: Ted Power and I have good news to share as we end the week: We have selected Nathan Groepper to be creative director at the Des Moines Design Studio. In my four weeks here, Nathan has impressed me repeatedly. His sophisticated approach to design, his collaborative spirit, his willingness to coach a [...]

Dec. 23, 2010: How the Des Moines Register covered the death of Bob Feller (7)

Bob Feller was a huge, huge baseball star back in the day. That day was in the 1940s. He was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 — the year I was born. Still, Iowans are very proud of this guy. So when he passed away last week, the Des Moines Register published a four-page special section that [...]

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