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March 18: A look at a few notable NCAA Tournament pages and sections (1)

Scott Goldman – director of content at Advance Digital and a former sports designer for the Washington Post — writes today via Facebook: In case you were wondering how you should design an NCAA Tournament section, look no further. This is how you do it. The section that caught his eye today: The one from the Washington Post. Which always [...]

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. 28: Take inspiration from anywhere you can find it

Late last summer, Jane Burns of the Wisconsin State Journal traveled to Washington, D.C., where she happened to take in a baseball game at Nationals Park. She wrote via Facebook: This press box in D.C. made me smile because I am reminded of the story that Val Monson, best writer in the world, once told. Val started in sports and [...]

Feb. 6: Not exactly the way you want to be on page one of the N.Y. Times

Did you see skier Lindsey Vonn on the front of today’s New York Times? That’s her — that tiny little lump attached to the end of the cable hanging below that medical evacuation helicopter. Vonn was airlifted out of an Austrian mountainside venue Tuesday after she wiped out during the Alpine World Championships. She tore two ligaments in her knee, [...]

Dec. 21, 2012: You heard it here first: The world did NOT end today

…So far, that is. Were you surprised? Believe me, you’ll know when the world comes to an end: The Chicago Cubs will win the World Series first. Here’s a look at some of the day’s most notable Mayan “apocalypse” front pages… __________________ LET’S GET THIS ONE OUT OF THE WAY EARLY, SHALL WE? The Sentinel of Santa Cruz, Calif., quoted [...]

Dec. 18, 2012: A disgusting — but highly entertaining — look at holiday germs and other icky things (1)

Today, the Washington Post‘s health and science page takes an fun look at various things that can make you sick around the holidays. The piece stars an ill-fated Santa Claus who suffers stomach-turning misfortune every time he turns with a jerk and lays a finger aside of his nose. Click this for a much larger look. The graphic was researched [...]

Nov. 30, 2012: Six cool Friday front pages

Here are the six pages that caught my eye during my sweep through the daily archive at the Newseum… — VICTORIA ADVOCATE Victoria, Texas Circulation: 26,531 As much as I love the little paper in Victoria, Texas — I’ve certainly written about it enough — the daily front pages often suffer from a bit of clutter. That’s not the case [...]

Nov. 15, 2012: A moving page-one photo of a father with his dead son

First: The picture by Majed Hamdan of the Associated Press. That is Jihad Misharawi, a Gaza-based video and photo editor for BBC Arabic, carrying the body of his 11-month-old son, Omar, through al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City following Wednesday’s attack there. The Washington Post‘s Max Fisher writes today: An Israeli round hit Misharawi’s four-room home in Gaza Wednesday, killing his son, according [...]

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 [...]

Nov. 4, 2012: A look at today’s election-oriented front pages (4)

Is it just me or has this presidential election cycle seemed way too damned long? Either way, it’s finally nearing its end. Here’s how my old friend Mark Marturello illustrated this today for the Des Moines Register. Let’s take a look at the day’s most notable presentations featuring the election on the Sunday before Election Day… — DES MOINES REGISTER [...]

Oct. 26, 2012: How East-coast newspapers played the ‘Frankenstorm’ today (2)

I’ve been reading for days now about the tropical storm in the Caribbean that was going to head up this way next. But it’s been so cold at night here in Virginia Beach that I’ve not been taking the threat seriously. Tropical storms just don’t venture into cold water. Do they? But it was hard to miss this big display [...]

Oct. 22, 2012: A graphic horse is a horse, of course, of course… (2)

Sunday, the Washington Post Style Arts section published a huge doubletruck graphic showing how the stage production of War Horse brings the titular character, Joey, to life. Click this — and then stand back! — for a much larger view. The graphic was researched and written by Bonnie Berkowitz and illustrated by a real master, Alberto Cuadra, using pen-and-ink and [...]

Oct. 13, 2012: Saturday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… _____________________________________ NEW YORK YANKEES 3, BALTIMORE ORIOLES 1 New York wins the series, 3-2 ALCS begins today: Detroit at New York, 8 p.m. EDT CC Sabathia pitched a complete game last night, despite getting into — and back out of — a situation in the 8th inning in which he loaded the [...]

Oct. 12, 2012: Friday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… _____________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 6, CINCINNATI REDS 4 San Francisco wins the series, 3-2 The Giants — who were down 2-0 in this series as of Sunday night — won its third in a row and clinched a spot in the National League Championship Series last night on the back of NL [...]

Oct. 11, 2012: Thursday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… __________________________________________ ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 8, WASHINGTON NATIONALS 0 St. Louis leads the series, 2-1 Next game: Today, 4 p.m. EDT at Washington The first baseball playoff game in D.C. since 1933 was pretty much a debacle for the Nationals. — ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH St. Louis, Mo. Circulation: 187,992 The Post-Dispatch led page [...]

Oct. 8, 2012: Monday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… ______________________________ DETROIT TIGERS 5, OAKLAND A’s 4 Detroit leads series, 2-0 Next game: Tuesday, 9 p.m. EDT at Oakland A crazy, crazy afternoon in Detroit. According to the MLB’s own account of the game: It was the first game in Major League postseason history in which both teams tied the game on [...]

Sept. 26, 2012: For your consideration…

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Sept. 19, 2012: A look at today’s most interesting ‘47 percent’ pages

Before today slips totally away from us, let’s take a quick look at the day’s most interesting front pages in which Mitt Romney‘s “47 percent” video was the lead story. — BOSTON HERALD Boston, Mass. Circulation: 108,548 Nice choice  — of what I presume is file art — by the Boston Herald today. Looks like Mitt is ducking something being [...]

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 [...]

Sept. 12, 2012: ‘News you can use’ from the Washington Post: How to throw like a girl

“You throw like a girl.” Other than being sexist as hell — and, perhaps, a little mean — just what does that mean, anyway? It turns out, it really does mean something, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Specifically, that you throw with just your forearm (think: darts) as opposed to with your entire body (think: baseball or football). A boy [...]

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