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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 [...]

March 1: A look at today’s notable tornado front pages (2)

Wow. Tornado season started early this year. Storms ripped through the Midwest late Tuesday… …and early Wednesday. Tornado reports are the red spots on these maps from the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center. In total, 13 were left dead and scores were left homeless. Here’s a look at notable tornado aftermath pages from around the region. ———————————- BEST PAGE [...]

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 [...]

July 17, 2011: The best of today’s visual journalism: ‘Carmageddon,’ space junk and movie heroes (1)

Here’s a look at some of the day’s more notable visual journalism offerings, as found at the Newseum… ———————————————- LOS ANGELES’ ‘CARMAGEDDON’ The big story of the day in Southern California was the mother of all traffic jams — “Carmageddon” — expected by the temporary closure of Interstate 405. Which kind of fizzled, according to most reports. — LOS ANGELES [...]

July 15, 2011: A final look at a few more Harry Potter movie pages (3)

No offense to you Harry Potter fans out there, but I’m about Harry Pottered out. My wife and daughter went to the local midnight showing here, however. And they loved the film. As of 1:30 p.m. my wife is still asleep. Proving that someone is too old for this sort of thing any more. Meanwhile, papers are still building crowd-pleasing [...]

July 4, 2011: Thirteen wonderful front pages for the Fourth of July

It’s Independence Day here in the U.S. As you’d imagine, a bunch of papers today found interesting ways to celebrate the holiday on page one. Here’s a look at 13 of the best of ‘em — one for each of the original 13 states — as seen at the Newseum… — HERALD NEWS Woodland Park, N.J. Circulation: About 50,000 The [...]

June 26, 2011: A couple of wonderful page-one infographics from the Midwest

My daily sweep through the Newseum resulted in two front pages that featured wonderfully-executed infographics in order to tell the day’s news. — WORLD-HERALD Omaha, Neb. Circulation 142,283 As I’m sure you’ve heard, the flooding along the Missouri River this year is extensive. The World-Herald‘s David Hendee reports: Imagine roughly 55 million acres — the entire surface of Nebraska and [...]

June 20, 2011: Behind the Kansas City Star’s Father’s Day nameplate

Sunday, the Kansas City Star observed Father’s Day with a wonderful series of illustrations incorporated into the paper’s nameplate. Click for a much, much larger view. Front page designer Charles Gooch tells us: The art was done by our ace illustrator Hector Casanova. We like to have a little fun with the flag on holidays and use the Google Doodle [...]

June 8, 2011: Today’s page one story: Mother Nature’s nasty temper

The biggest story across the nation today — if you ignore the Rep. Anthony Weiner story — is weather. Either it’s too hot, too wet or too, um, the place is on fire. Here’s a look at today’s notable front page visuals, as seen in the daily archive at the Newseum. As usual, click on any image today for a [...]

May 29, 2011: A look at Sunday’s tornado front pages

It’s been a week since a horrifying F5 tornado tore through the tiny town of Joplin, Mo., ending 139 lives and changing others forever. Here’s a look at Day Seven coverage of the aftermath. — KANSAS CITY STAR Kansas City, Mo. Circulation: 209,258 Is this a dynamite photo or what? This is sunrise over Joplin on Day Three, last Tuesday, [...]

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 26, 2011: A look at Thursday’s tornado pages

I don’t know about you guys, but man, I’m burned out on reading tornado stories and looking at tornado photos and pages. Yet, the storms just keep coming. Towns in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and other states were hit Wednesday. — JOPLIN GLOBE Joplin, Mo. Circulation: 24,642 The town so hard-struck Sunday doesn’t pass its front page along to the Newseum. [...]

May 25, 2011: Wednesday’s tornado aftermath pages (7)

The list of this year’s killer tornadoes just keeps getting longer. And the stories just keep getting sadder. But area newspapers continue to do a fabulous job keeping their readers up to date on search missions, relief efforts and prospects of recovery. — JOPLIN GLOBE Joplin, Mo. Circulation: 24,642 Once again, I have a number of pages from today’s Joplin [...]

May 24, 2011: Tuesday tornado aftermath pages from Joplin; Midwest

Again, today, I’ve managed to score just a bit of a scoop for you: A number of pages not posted at the Newseum. Meaning you possibly haven’t seen them yet… — JOPLIN GLOBE Joplin, Mo. Circulation: 24,642 In the friendly little city of Joplin, Mo. — so cruelly hammered by nature Sunday night — the hometown Globe continued its heroic [...]

May 23, 2011: Tornado pages from Missouri and Minnesota

Wow. Haven’t we had enough twisters for one year? There were even more tornadoes Sunday — this time, the major action was in in Missouri and Minnesota. And, yet again, the reports are horrifying. Three-quarters of the town of Joplin, Mo., was completely flattened. Eighty-nine were killed in Missouri, state officials are saying. — JOPLIN GLOBE Joplin, Mo. Circulation: 24,642 [...]

May 6, 2011: Avengers assembled… in the Kansas City Star

Thor? I’m tho thor I can hardly type! But never mind that. Here’s the coolest thing I’ve seen all day: A look at this summer’s comic book movies… plus all the movies and TV projects in the works for summers to come. Make sure you click that for a much larger — and, yes, readable — view. That was a [...]

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 [...]