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Charles Apple: The Visual Side of Journalism

 

‘New York Times’ archive

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Oct. 7, 2011: Friday’s baseball playoff pages

There was only one game last night. The Detroit Tigers beat the Yankees 3-2 to move on to face the Texas Rangers in the American League Championship series. A look at the day’s pages… — DETROIT NEWS Detroit, Mich. Circulation: 141,668 The News wrapped a poster front around its normal front page today, as you can see from the red-colored [...]

Sept. 1, 2011: Thursday’s notable Hurricane Irene front pages (1)

Here’s a look at the day’s most notable Hurricane Irene aftermath front pages, as found at the Newseum. — ASBURY PARK PRESS Neptune, N.J. Circulation: 107,443 The folks in Asbury Park touched on this issue with yesterday’s front page. Today, they used two dramatically-cropped horizontal pictures to tell a compelling story of contrasts. Note how the headline plays perfectly off [...]

Aug. 30, 2011: Tuesday’s 20 best Hurricane Irene front pages (6)

I can’t possibly hope to top yesterday’s Hurricane Irene roundup. So today, let’s take a look at the top 20 pages of the day, as found this morning at the Newseum… ———————————- THE PERSONAL TOUCH Several papers expended their front-page centerpieces today showing personal tales of loss and salvation. — NEWS & RECORD Greensboro, N.C. Circulation: 60,993 One of the [...]

Aug. 29, 2011: Monday’s Hurricane Irene pages… nothing but hype? (8)

Take a memo for me, if you will. Dear Philadelphia Daily News… Thanks so much for being the only newspaper on the East Coast today to expose the ongoing Hurricane Irene story for what it really was: Nothing but overblown hype. You could get a real sense of all this today by simply taking a spin around the daily archive [...]

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 [...]

July 28, 2011: Three cool page-one photos (1)

Three cool page one photos, as seen today at the Newseum… — YOU JUST KNOW THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LOVES THIS This is just the photo the tourism folks want to see displayed over four columns in a resort community. That wonderfully high-larious page-one art is by staffer Steve Heaslip of the Cape Cod Times of Hyannis, Mass. The story [...]

July 24, 2011: Surely this headline wasn’t intentional (1)

Surely this headline currently on the New York Times web site isn’t an intentional pun. Like my anonymous tipster wrote me tonight: Best. Headline. EVER. I moved words around a bit so you could read it more easily. Here it is in its natural environment, screencapped tonight around 8:30 p.m. EDT. Find the story here. Let’s see how long it [...]

July 19, 2011: Interesting timelapse view of the New York Times’ homepage

Freelance web developer Phillip Mendonça-Vieira writes: Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour from September 2010 to July 2011, I accidentally collected about 12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com. So, what did Phillip do with all these screencaps? He set them to music and posted the resulting video on YouTube, of course. As [...]

July 10, 2011: Behind Newsday’s wrap-around Derek Jeter cover

There’s a fun story behind the wrap-around cover of today’s Newsday cover, commemorating the 3,000th career hit by New York Yankees start Derek Jeter. The cover not only wraps around the entire tabloid today, it does it sideways. Click for a larger look. The lead photo by staffer David Pokress. The guy who designed it — news art director Seth [...]

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 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 27, 2011: Close, but not quite there for Monday’s flooding front pages

The big Midwestern flooding story today is the situation around the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant, less than 20 miles upsteam of Omaha. A dam protecting the plant from the Missouri River failed Sunday, resulting in two feet of water surrounding the nuclear plant buildings themselves. The plant itself has been offline since April, for refueling anyway. Needless to say, officials [...]

June 25, 2011: How New York papers played the gay marriage law on A1 today

New York might not have been the first state to pass a law legalizing same-sex marriage. But it’s certainly the largest. And already, the four conservative state senators who decided to “vote their conscience” and support the bill last night are under heavy fire by their party for “betrayal.” Read about that here. Here are the most notable front pages [...]

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 19, 2011: I KNEW I should have bought stock in sticky notes (1)

This really interesting infographic apparently ran in today’s New York Times. I’m sorry I missed it. Those colorful little blocks are sticky notes (click for a larger view): As you can see, the graphic is about merging two major airline companies. The intro copy says: Delta and Northwest announced their merger in April 2008. They immediately began planning for what [...]

May 3, 2011: A look at Tuesday’s graphics-heavy bin Laden presentations (3)

Anybody ready for another spin into the world of Osama bin Laden aftermath? While yesterday’s fronts were — in some cases — big and bold, they didn’t have a lot of story to tell. That’s partially because of the late hour at which the story broke. Read much more detail about that — and how several papers ripped up their [...]

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: 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 [...]

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