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Jan. 26: Behind the flower power today on the front of the Bay Area group papers (3)

What a great blast of 1960′s-style flower power that was on the front of today’s San Jose Mercury News. Average daily circulation for the Mercury News is about 225,175. The story — by the Merc‘s Paul Rogers –is about a proposed state law that would require 15 percent of all new cars sold in California to run on electricity or [...]

Jan. 15: A look at Sunday’s NFL playoff pages

The first game yesterday was, without a doubt, one of the most exciting playoff games I’ve seen in years. The second: Not so much. _________________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS 36, NEW ORLEANS SAINTS 32 Three scores in the last two minutes and 18 seconds. What a finish. — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE San Francisco, Calif. Circulation: 220,515 The Chronicle — which I [...]

Jan. 14: A look at Saturday’s NFL preview pages (2)

There are two huge pro football games today and then two more tomorrow. Let’s take a look at how area newspapers previewed the game on page on today… _____________________________________ NEW ORLEANS SAINTS at SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS 4:30 P.M. EST – FOX While the 49ers are the higher seed, I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see the Saints win today. [...]

Oct. 9, 2011: Behind the San Jose Mercury News’ front-page Steve Jobs tribute

You might recall that on Thursday, the San Jose Mercury News wasn’t able to do much with the Steve Jobs story. The Merc had major breaking news in town that day. Big, scary breaking news involving a worksplace shooting that left three dead and seven injured. So what do you do in a case like that? You revisit the story [...]

Oct. 6, 2011: How newspapers presented the death of Steve Jobs (7)

A Facebook friend wrote this morning: I will be very interested to see your feedback on the Jobs A1s. Some papers have a very good reason to give the obit huge treatment, but I am concerned that designers and news types tend to be such fans that they will lose sight of what their audiences want/need. I hear you. There [...]

July 21, 2011: A fun Google+ illustration today in the San Jose Mercury News

The story today in silicon valley: Google+ and its battle against Facebook and Twitter. And how better to illustrate that story than by comparing it to a good ol’ Lucha Libre-style wrasslin’ match? Click for a much larger view: The illustration is by Pai, the graphics director for the San Jose Mercury News. Pai tells us: The graphic was initially [...]

July 14, 2011: Enjoy even more of today’s Harry Potter treatments

I posted a nice batch of Harry Potter pages this morning and then took the rest of the day off from blogging to take my daughter to her community college orientation. When I returned, my e-mail basket was overflowing with more Potter pages. Now, we’re talking! So fill up your coffee muggle and settle in to look over a few [...]

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 30, 2011: The next wave of newspaper consolidation begins: Now, management is being laid off (1)

We’ve seen newspapers merge their “production,” copy-editing and design teams. I’ve seen papers merge their photo departments. The Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer long ago merged — to a large degree — their sports and features staffs. But now management is being affected. The Bay Area News Group — a group of papers owned by Dean Singleton‘s [...]

June 9, 2011: All that money you’ve spent on Apple products? Here’s what it’s going to buy… (1)

Ailing Apple CEO Steve Jobs came out of his medical leave Monday to help make the announcements for all the cool new operating system and cloud storage solutions Apple is introducing. You heard about that, of course. What you might not have heard about: Jobs then took another break from his break Tuesday to pitch a design for a new [...]

May 29, 2011: Ten cool Sunday front-page visuals

My daily sweep through the Newseum produced more than just a handful of weather front pages and Memorial Day front pages. I also spotted a number of visuals I thought worthy of bringing to your attention. Other than what I’m posting elsewhere today, here are ten unusually cool Sunday front pages from around the country. — ARIZONA REPUBLIC Phoenix, Ariz. [...]

May 15, 2011: A handful of notable Sunday front pages (3)

You saw the pages I posted earlier today out of Alabama, right? Those were outstanding, so please don’t miss them. However — now that I’ve had a chance to take my daily romp though the archive at the Newseum — I have a few more Sunday front pages I’d like to show you. — In Louisiana, the big story is [...]

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 [...]

Nov. 2, 2010: A look at this week’s World Series front pages (6)

It seems like the entire west coast of the country is celebrating the San Francisco Giants’ World Series title. Here’s a look at the most notable baseball pages from the past week or so, as seen in the daily archive at the Newseum. — TODAY’S SAN FRANCISCO-AREA FRONTS The hometown paper was nice and loud today, proclaiming the Giants’ win: [...]

Oct. 24, 2010: On page one today: The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat (5)

There were lost of things going on out there in the world of sports Saturday. Some of it turned up on today’s front pages. Here are the most notable, as (mostly) found in the daily archive of the Newseum… — COLLEGE FOOTBALL PAGES Arguably the biggest game of the day was Missouri’s huge 36-27 win over No. 3-ranked Oklahoma. That [...]

Oct. 6, 2010: San Jose’s Andréa Maschietto leaving the newspaper industry (1)

San Jose Mercury News artist Andréa Maschietto will exit the newspaper business to work for Intuit, the famed makers of financial and tax software. The graphics director of the Mercury News, Pai, made the announcement this week. Andréa will become a senior visual designer  at the Palo Alto-baseed firm. Her last day at the Merc will be Wednesday, Oct. 13. [...]

July 31, 2010: Alex Fong returns to the San Jose Mercury News (1)

Alex Fong is returning to the San Jose Mercury News, reports Merc design director Tiffany Pease. Tiffany and AME for production Ron Kitagawa announced Thursday: Please join me in congratulating Alex Fong — yeah, the guy with the bow-tie — who is the new deputy design director for the Mercury News and its San Mateo edition. Alex joined the BANG [...]

July 22, 2010: Merc front page celebrates 500 million Facebook users

Here’s the front page of today’s San Jose Mercury News, circulation 516,701… …and a closer look at that huge centerpiece graphic by Andréa Maschietto, Doug Griswold and Pai (click for a larger view): Wonderfully entertaining and interesting. And what a great use of color. My only beef is a small one: I’d preferred to have seen the word “million” — [...]