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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 [...]

Oct. 31, 2010: Sunday’s front pages: Politics, politics and more politics (2)

Forget Halloween. The front pages of newspapers around the U.S. today concentrate on something much more scary: The upcoming elections. Here’s a selection of the most notable Sunday election-oriented front pages, as found at the daily archive at the Newseum… Today’s prettiest election-oriented front is this one by the Salt Lake Tribune: Don’t try this at home, kids, unless you’re [...]

Sept. 6, 2010: Let’s have a hand, please, for Des Moines’ photo essay (1)

A number of U.S. newspapers today offered up front-page stories on the economy or the jobless in order to tie into the Labor Day holiday. One of the most spectacular was by the Des Moines Register, which — as part of a continuing series featuring outstanding staff photography in the wake of the paper’s Pulitzer earlier this year — focused [...]

July 26, 2010: Day two of dam-breaking coverage by the Des Moines Register (2)

We established Sunday that the Des Moines Register did outstanding work yesterday covering flooding in eastern part of the state. Sunday’s front, again: This was despite… a) That town where the dam burst — Delhi, Iowa — is 180 miles northeast of Des Moines. b) Meanwhile, the gigantically popular annual RAGBRAI bike ride across Iowa — which the Register sponsors [...]