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March 14, 2011: Four outstanding Bracket Monday presentations (5)

It’s easy for me to forget — here in Johannesburg, an ocean away from home — that today was Bracket Monday: The day newspapers covered the NCAA men’s basketball tournament seedings and the tip-off for March Madness. I put out the call for interesting Bracket Monday pages. Only three papers responded — plus, I received one additional nomination — but [...]

March 12, 2011: Eighteen front pages that told the earthquake story particularly well, visually (2)

I really should be in bed by now — it’s already after midnight — but I have a lot of pages I want to point out to you. There was a lot of good work done out there today on page one. Probably because so many of you lived by the golden rule of news page design: If you have [...]

Feb. 12, 2011: How newspapers played the Egyptian revolution on page one (1)

Momentous events went down in Egypt on Friday. Nearly every paper that led with the resignation of Egypt’s president illustrated that story with with pictures of delirious citizens celebrating in the streets of Cairo. Which gives a sameness to today’s front pages. Nevertheless, let’s look at today’s most notable treatments, as seen today at the Newseum. — INTERNATIONAL FRONTS I [...]

Nov. 3, 2010: The best and the brightest Election Day front pages (4)

Just when you think you’ve seen U.S. papers fall into a huge, huge rut, something like a midterm election comes along and — boom! — just like that, dynamite pages are produced all over the country. It’s taken me a while to pull this together. But hopefully, I can take you on an interesting tour of the best and brightest [...]

Sept. 29, 2010: The Los Angeles Times is at it again with a faux news wrap (2)

Will the Los Angeles Times ever learn? Or is it the newspaper-buying public who’s going to have to learn not to trust what they see on page one? Today’s LAT is wrapped with an ad. I’m on the record as hating these things. They’re becoming so common, though, that they’re hardly news anymore. This one, however, is more than just [...]