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May 21: A look at today’s notable Oklahoma tornado front pages (2)

In the future, whenever you think of the horrifying tragedy Monday in Oklahoma, you’ll remember this image: That was shot in Moore, Okla., by Sue Ogrocki of the Associated Press. Sue’s first-person story is downright chilling: I expected chaos as I approached the piles of bricks and twisted metal where Plaza Towers Elementary once stood. Instead, it was calm and [...]

May 9: Ethics? What ethics? State-of-the-art photo retouching tips from 1946 (2)

The find of the day: An instruction manual on how to retouch photos for publication, published in 1946. The PetaPixel blog posted a number of pages from this book, Shortcuts to Photo Retouching For Commercial Use, by Raymond Wardell. PetaPixel’s Michael Zhang writes: Think of it as a “Photoshop 101″ book for photographers who came more than half a century [...]

May 6: A really cool interactive look at baseball salaries by the LA Times

Illustrator and cartoonist Greg Kelly tips us off about this really cool interactive graphic posted recently by the Los Angeles Times. This presentation breaks down the salary teams pay at each position and presents it in bubble chart format. Or, rather, half-bubble chart format. Because the really cool thing is the ability to dial up any two teams you want [...]

March 14: A look at today’s Pope front pages (3)

[Freshly updated with a few more credits that rolled in throughout the day Thursday...] As you know, we have a new Pope. He’s from Argentina and is the first Pope ever from the Americas. As you might imagine, papers in Argentina went crazy with the story today. But you can spot right away why I’m reluctant to spend a lot [...]

Feb. 12: What lousy timing for such an obtrusive ad (4)

The folks at the Los Angeles Times had huge news to report this afternoon: Christopher Dorner — that cop-killing, ex-cop fugitive who’s been on the loose for the better part of a week, now, is smack in the middle of a shootout with police in Big Bear, Calif. (In fact, the standoff is still in progress as I write this [...]

Feb. 12: A look at today’s most outstanding Pope Benedict XVI pages (1)

Huge news broke Monday morning: The Pope is resigning. Pope Benedict XVI will be the first pope in 598 years to resign, as opposed to dying in office. This move — along with the baggage the Catholic church is carrying around these days — made for huge play atop page one of today’s New York Times. That picture by L’Osservatore [...]

Nov. 11, 2012: Three outstanding projects today that you should know about

Now that election season has come and gone, it’s time for newspapers to open up with both barrels and pour out whatever terrific enterprise journalism they’ve been working on this fall. There are lots of examples of terrific projects on front pages today, including two that were kicked off today with outstanding display type-based front-page centerpieces — what we often [...]

Oct. 29, 2012: Monday’s World Series pages

Here’s a look at today’s World Series pages… ____________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 4, DETROIT TIGERS 3 Giants win the series, 4-0 This series was an avalanche from the get-go. True, last night’s Game Four went into extra innings. But the worst that could happen — from the Giants’ point of view — was that the Tigers might force a Game [...]

Oct. 11, 2012: Cool infographic alert: Trucking the space shuttle down L.A. streets (1)

Just when you thought you had seen the last of the retired space shuttle Endeavour, it pops up again. Today, Endeavour is on the front of the Los Angeles Times via a terrific graphic by staffer Raoul Rañoa. You may recall a couple of weeks ago, the shuttle was flown to the airport in Los Angeles on the back of [...]

Sept. 21, 2012: Geekazoid Friday: A friend from the future greets the space shuttle in Los Angeles

As you know, the retired space shuttle Endeavour arrived at Los Angeles International Airport this afternoon to great fanfare. The Los Angeles Times has marked the occasion with a large panoramic photo — by staffer Bryan Chan — into which you can zoom in and out… …or pan around the scene. You know the drill. Ther was one little detail [...]

Sept. 13, 2012: Are question headlines really effective on a day like this?

As you can see from these headlines, there are a lot of questions out there involving the attack this week on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya. What I don’t understand is why so many newspapers today led with question headlines. Hey, I’m not the world’s best headline writer myself — as you can see every day here in the [...]

June 12, 2012: Six interesting sports-themed front pages

A number of papers published interesting sports displays on page one today… — THE OKLAHOMAN Oklahoma City, Okla. Circulation: 132,294 The Oklahoma City Thunder goes up against the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals starting tonight. This championship series is huge for Oklahoma City. Huge. How huge is it? It’s huge enough to merit this fun, full-page treatment on page [...]

June 8, 2012: Los Angeles Times jumps the gun on congratulatory Stanley Cup ads (2)

What’s good: Having ads in the paper the next day congratulating the local team on winning the Stanley Cup. What’s not so good: Ads in the paper the next day congratulating the local team on winning the Stanley Cup… when the team didn’t win. That’s what happened this week in Los Angeles. The Kings lost to the New Jersey Devils [...]

April 18, 2012: Today’s big story: The L.A. Times’ front-page photo of soldiers and dead insurgents (1)

The big story this morning: The Los Angeles Times ran a photo of U.S. troops posing with dead Afghan insurgent suicide bombers. On the front page. As you might imagine, this has caused quite a ruckus today. The Times‘ David Zucchino reports: The 82nd Airborne Division [from Fort Bragg, N.C.]  soldiers arrived at the police station in Afghanistan’s Zabol province [...]

Feb. 27, 2012: A look at today’s Academy Awards front pages (3)

Oscars night is always huge for lovers of fine entertainment everywhere. Here’s a look at some of today’s notable Oscar ceremony front pages from Los Angeles and around the country… — DAILY NEWS Los Angeles, Calif. Circulation: 89,990 The Daily News placed the five individual big winners across the top of its front page and led that front with a [...]

Feb. 6, 2012: A look at today’s notable Super Bowl pages (4)

There was way too much similarity in choices of front-page Super Bowl art around the country. The best photo choices were made today by some of the nation’s largest papers. Here’s a look at some of the more notable pages of the day… ________________________________ REPRESENTING THE NEW YORK GIANTS — NEWSDAY Melville, N.Y. Circulation: 404,542 Newsday today wrapped its usual [...]

Jan. 25, 2012: A look at today’s State of the Union pages (1)

Here’s a look at some of today’s most notable State of the Union front pages. And a few not-so-notable ones as well… — WASHINGTON POST Washington, D.C. Circulation: 507,465 Not surprisingly, the Washington Post did a fabulous job with how it presented today’s State of the Union coverage. You get the feeling they’ve done this before. The lead picture — [...]

Jan. 11, 2012: You’ve got a friend in me…

Hey, wait a second. I thought Woody’s best friend was Buzz Lightyear. Evidently not. Woody Allen‘s best friend is Woody Allen from 35 years ago. Or, at least, that’s the way it appears in this piece in last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times by master illustrator Chris Morris. A 1987 graduate of East Texas University in Commerce, Texas — now known [...]

Jan. 2, 2012: Infographics day for two Southern California newspapers (1)

Two of Southern California’s largest newspapers featured infographics on page one today. Neither was particularly complex or even spectacular, perhaps, in scope or rendering style. But both were extremely effective in telling their respective stories. Which, of course, justifies their front-page play. — LOS ANGELES TIMES Los Angeles, Calif. Circulation: 572,998 The big story in L.A. this holiday season was [...]

Dec. 12, 2011: For your consideration… (2)

My pal Roger Friedensen says: Most photographers work a lifetime and never get the joy of a shot like this: Those are members of the Mongols — a group of “Harley-Davidson motorcycle riders” — who donated 550 bicycles and 800 other toys to children at the Fred Jordan Mission in downtown Los Angeles yesterday morning. But damned if that wouldn’t [...]

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