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April 17: How Pulitzer-winning newspapers played their prizes on page one (2)

— UPDATE – 2:10 p.m. Links to winning entries added. — Granted, it’s a big deal when a news organization wins a Pulitzer Prize. It shows the commitment your newspaper has made to excellence — especially important when nearly everyone is cutting back on reporters, copy editors, photographers and designers. So you really can’t blame a paper for pushing its [...]

March 7: A look at today’s front-page Super Tuesday graphics (2)

Lately, I’ve done a lot of writing about election charts. Especially regarding what you might and might not want to try to show, graphically, during the primaries. I’m finding a lot of papers out there building huge map displays when, quite frankly, the story at this point of the election cycle isn’t about states or electoral votes. The story is [...]

Jan. 23: A look at today’s Joe Paterno pages (1)

Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno held on overnight Saturday but then passed away Sunday morning. Despite all the bad stuff we’ve reported over the past few weeks, Paterno was at Penn State many, many years — he was named head coach in 1966. He is the winningest coach in NCAA football history. And he’s a beloved figure in [...]

Jan. 22: A nice compliment from Esquire magazine

By now, you’ve probably heard about the new issue of Esquire magazine. Former president Bill Clinton takes on the topic of achieving consensus and why that’s seemingly become a lost art. It’s a great interview, in fact. Read it here. There’s a cute little sidebar, however, called “78 other things we can all agree on.” I can’t find that online. [...]

Jan. 22: A quick look at a few Joe Paterno front pages (3)

By now, you know Joe Paterno — longtime football coach at Penn State and somewhat tarnished, suddenly, by the child rape scandal that made news in November — has passed away. If you didn’t see it, this was the home page at the CBS Sports web site for a few minutes last night, before Paterno died: I’m not going to [...]

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 [...]

Nov. 8, 2011: Behind Harrisburg’s full-page editorial front page (3)

Today’s the Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa., responded to the heartbreaking sex abuse scandal in the Penn State University athletic department with a full-page editorial Click for a readable view: Editor David Newhouse tells us: It’s a rework of the inspired 9-11 front from our sister paper, The Star-Ledger. If front page designs had credits, we would have loved to have [...]

Oct. 8, 2011: A look at Saturday’s baseball playoff pages (3)

It’s past time for our daily look at baseball playoff pages. National League teams clinched trips to the league championship series last night. _________________________________________ ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 1, PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 0 Cardinals win series, 3-2 — ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH St. Louis, Mo. Circulation: 196,232 The obligatory locker room champagne celebration shot afront the Post-Dispatch is by staffer Chris Lee. — [...]

Sept. 13, 2011: An amazing coincidence regarding Harrisburg’s 9/11 page (1)

You’re never going to believe this. Yet, it’s true. David Newhouse — editor of the Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa. — writes: On Sept. 11, 2001, Maria Behr from the Harrisburg area was working as a securities trader at Cantor Fitzgerald in the World Trade Center. She was one of 658 employees of the firm who perished when the north tower [...]

Sept. 12, 2011: Today’s best 9/11 anniversary front (1)

There was a lot of great work published yesterday. A lot of it I reviewed in my marathon blog post last night. A lot of it showed up in galleries posted by Julie Moos of the Poynter Institute and by Yahoo News. And there was a lot of it I didn’t see — I really wish I could have gotten [...]

Sept. 10, 2011: More great work showing the flooding in Pennsylvania

First of all, please accept my apologies for showing only pages from Harrisburg last night. I had intended to post pages from around the state but my epic on how college newspapers around the country are remembering 9/11 took up quite a bit more time that I had anticipated. Therefore, today’s post will include Pennsylvania pages from both Friday and [...]

Sept. 9, 2011: Inside the flood coverage in today’s Harrisburg, Pa., Patriot-News

You already know about the massively swollen Susquehanna River and what it’s doing throughout Pennsylvania. And perhaps you’ve already seen the front page of today’s Patriot-News, in the state’s capital city of Harrisburg. That gorgeous page by ace designer Jon Gass features this equally gorgeous photo by staffer Christine Baker, showing Route 230 in Swatara Township. That’s one of 170 [...]

Sept. 8, 2011: All hell has broken loose in Pennsylvania today

It was a very wet summer in Pennsylvania. And then Hurricane Irene came through, dumping even more water on this waterlogged region. And now the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee have moved through. The result: Flooding. And lots of it. Here’s a woman being rescued — barely — from Little Muncy Creek near Hughesville, Pa. That picture is by staffer [...]

Aug. 28, 2011: Up the East Coast with Hurricane Irene, via Sunday front pages (5)

Well. That storm certainly fizzled, now, didn’t it? Naturally, I’m delighted that’s the case. I was so terrified for my poor old house, back in Virginia Beach. I wasn’t happy about evacuating to Atlanta for the weekend. Still, though, at the time we left — Thursday evening — it was the right thing to do. The best-case scenario was always [...]

Aug. 24, 2011: How East Coast papers covered the Great Quake of ’11 (2)

You knew it was coming today: Wall-to-wall coverage of the Great Earthquake of 2011. Of course, folks on the West Coast and in various regions of the world are shaking their heads and wondering about us. No deaths. No suffering. No tsunami. No substantial damage to speak of. So why the fuss? Because we’re not accustomed to earthquakes in this [...]

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 28, 2011: A look at Saturday’s storm aftermath pages (2)

One day soon, I’m going to cease the daily roundup I’ve been performing lately of pages in the wake of last weekend’s devastating tornado in Joplin, Mo. and the subsequent storms this week around the country. But today’s not that day. There’s still a lot of notable work going on out there. A little tough to read through, at times, [...]

May 27, 2011: Friday’s storm pages: Stunning photo and story by Springfield News-Leader

We’ll start off today’s tornado roundup with something that truly stunned me, folks. And I mean truly. Stunned. Me. I read this story a few hours ago and then had to take a break. I just couldn’t bear to read any more. But now it’s time buckle down and get this posted. This story comes to us today via a [...]

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: Sorry, all circuits are busy… (2)

So, after staying up ungodly hours last night — bringing you preliminary and low-resolution newspaper front pages in progress, purloined from every Twitter and Facebook feed I could find — my plan today was to get up early and compile a collection of the best Osama bin Laden fronts from around the U.S. Ah, well. Best-laid plans and all that. [...]

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