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Feb. 5: A look at today’s notable Super Bowl preview pages (3)

Just about everybody had something out front today for America’s biggest unofficial holiday, Super Bowl Sunday. Here’s a look at the most notable pages I’ve seen… ____________________________________ REPRESENTING THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — BOSTON GLOBE Boston, Mass. Circulation: 205,939 My favorite picture of the day is this one, on the front of today’s Boston Globe. You’re seeing the Patriots lining [...]

Jan. 19: Behind that cool abstract-looking art across the top of today’s Huntsville Times

I was intrigued today with the page-one nameplate art used by the Huntsville (Ala.) Times today. Here is today’s front page from the Newseum… And here is just the nameplate promo. Click for a larger look: Design director Paul Wallen tells us: I designed the nameplate at the top of A1, it teases to the Go! cover story. Steve Johnson [...]

Jan. 10: Today’s BCS championship game pages (1)

After all those great overtime bowl games we saw this holiday season, last night’s BCS Championship game was quite the letdown. For everyone other than Alabama fans, perhaps. The big story on front pages throughout the state of Sweet Home Alabama today: How to hold a crystal national championship trophy:       — TUSCALOOSA NEWS Tuscaloosa, Ala. Circulation: 27,274 [...]

Dec. 16, 2011: Huntsville intern Alyson Morris moving to Naples, Fla.

Bethany Bickley, designer and illustrator for the Huntsville (Ala.) Times, writes today: Our current design intern Alyson Morris has accepted a features design position at the Naples Daily News in Naples, Florida. Ali has done fantastic work with our front page and has helped incorporate more graphics into the paper. She will be missed, but is very excited about her [...]

Nov. 25, 2011: On the front of Huntsville’s Iron Bowl special section: A ‘flippable’ cover

Tomorrow is the annual Iron Bowl — the game in which the University of Alabama plays Auburn University. Alabama is ranked No. 2 in the nation and, therefore, is expected to win. Auburn isn’t ranked in the top 25; however, they’re the defending national champions. Either way, this is always a great game. And it’s a huge event in Alabama. [...]

Nov. 24, 2011: Guaranteed to go viral today: Dogs in cute little football outfits

The big story in Alabama this week: Saturday’s annual Iron Bowl between No. 2-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide and the unranked but defending national champions Auburn Tigers. The inventive folks at the Huntsville Times found an interesting way to get folks talking about the game — and their paper today. Design director Paul Wallen tells us… As you know, the Alabama-Auburn [...]

Oct. 20, 2011: Dear diary: Today, I dressed my boss up like a spork. And got away with it.

Question: Why is Paul Wallen — design director of the Huntsville Times — dressed up like a spork? Answer: Well, it could have been worse. He could have been a condiment. Which, as you know, is a mint-flavored… Oh, never mind. Paul writes: This is our Halloween costume edition of Go! We did a do-it-yourself take on really simple objects [...]

Sept. 13, 2011: It’s the changing of the interns in Huntsville, Ala. (1)

It’s not quite as elaborate or ceremonial as the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace or at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. But with the track record design Paul Wallen is racking up at the 47,366-circulation Huntsville Times, it might be one day. It’s time for Paul to change interns. I invited him to explain… [...]

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. 8, 2011: Brewing up something special for the weekly entertainment tab in Huntsville, Ala. (1)

Paul Wallen — design director of the Huntsville (Ala.) Times — writes to tell us about his paper’s latest cool surprise for its readers. The project inserts today, Paul tells us. Brewers and craft beer enthusiasts are staging a “Huntsville Beer Week” event, which starts with a big tasting event with food and music Friday, then continues for six more [...]

Sept. 1, 2011: Football preview section: 119 little photos on the cover in Huntsville (4)

This has to be one of the more unusual football covers I’ve ever seen. Make sure you click on it for a much, much larger look. The theme of Huntsville, Alabama’s football preview section this year: Alabama is the ultimate state for college football. Sports editor John Turner chose to illustrate that with no fewer than 119 tiny little photos, [...]

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. 5, 2011: How newspapers played the stock market free-fall on page one

The story of the day, of course, was that disastrous day for Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points Thursday. It has lost more than 10 percent of its total value over the past 10 days. Thursday was the single worst day for the stock market since… well, since 2008. Which doesn’t sound all that [...]

July 30, 2011: If I could talk to the animals…

My morning romp through the daily front-page archive at the Newseum produced little to talk about today. So I thought I’d direct your attention to three newspapers that chose to use enormous amounts of space today on our furry friends. Isn’t this a wonderful shot  by the Fayetteville Observer‘s Andrew Craft? That is Rajaji, running free in an enclosure at [...]

July 27, 2011: Fun with the nameplate in Huntsville

My pals at the Huntsville Times wanted to promo a real talker today — a story on the front of sports about which local football players were picked up by NFL teams in the wake of Tuesday’s labor settlement. They chose to do that in a rather creative way: By turning the paper’s nameplate into the nameplate of a football [...]

July 14, 2011: More Harry Potter movie magic for us Muggles (2)

UPDATED: 9:45 p.m. with one more Victoria Advocate page. I seamlessly — I hope — worked it in to what I had written here this morning. — As promised, here are  more very, very cool treatments regarding the seventh and final Harry Potter movie. Which opens tonight at midnight. My wife and daughter have tickets and will spend hours — [...]

July 12, 2011: Huntsville (Ala.) Times makes a few design tweaks

Paul Wallen — design director of the Huntsville (Ala.) Times — tells us: With Tuesday’s paper, we reduced our web width by a little more than half an inch. At the same time, we introduced new fonts that will also be installed in Birmingham and Mobile, which should eventually make it easier for us to share some content. On 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 [...]

July 3, 2011: Paying tribute to the last space shuttle flight (1)

A number of newspapers used page one real estate today to take note of the final space shuttle flight, scheduled to launch Friday. — HUNTSVILLE TIMES Huntsville, Ala. Circulation: 47,306 For some reason, the front page of the Huntsville Times didn’t quite make it to the Newseum today. Luckily for us, design director Paul Wallen was kind enough to slip [...]

June 20, 2011: Meet the Huntsville Times’ new design intern

Design director Paul Wallen recently announced a couple of changes to his staff at the Huntsville (Ala.) Times. First of all, Paul writes: Rachel Schallom has been accepted into the graduate school program at the University of Missouri and she’ll be leaving us in early July to pursue her Masters in Journalism. Rachel has been working at the Times since [...]

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