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May 17: For your consideration…

Heh. That image is from the Newseum. Of course.

May 13: A look at the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Sunday missing persons wrap

Sunday, I took note of the front-page treatment by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Here it is again: Find my ode to this page — and especially to the story downpage — here. Today, I offer a correction of sorts. That was officially the front page of Sunday’s Plain Dealer and the front page that appeared at the Newseum. But that [...]

May 12: Forget the ‘feel good’ Mother’s Day story. This one is heartbreaking and powerful. And important.

As you might imagine, the Plain Dealer today led with a look back to the huge story of the week, adding details, updates and perspective to the horrifying story on the three teenaged girls who were kidnapped and then held in chains and ropes for up to a decade. These stories are powerful and I recommend them highly. But what [...]

May 10: A huge highway fire results in a poster-front treatment in Pennsylvania

A tanker truck turned over on Interstate 81 at the intersection of U.S. 322 north of downtown Harrisburg Thursday and burst into flames. The fire burned so hot that it damaged the interstate as well as the overpass above it. The state Dept. of Transportation advised motorists to divert to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Which then closed itself when a truck [...]

May 9: A skinny governor of New Jersey, thanks to a page-one photoillustration

One of my blog readers asked Wednesday: This seems…wrong. Do you have thoughts? The page she was referring to was this photoillustration afront the Asbury Park Press. That’s New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is famously overweight and who had banding surgery on his stomach earlier this year in hopes of losing weight. The illo — by Jeff Colson of [...]

May 8: Inside the Plain Dealer’s kidnapping rescue coverage (2)

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past two days, you’ve seen the amazing news out of Cleveland: Three women were rescued after being kidnapped and held captive in a house for a decade. Here’s how the Plain Dealer played the story on page one Tuesday: The lead art — of family members of one of the women celebrating [...]

May 7: Unidentified crime suspects on page one

Reposting photos of two alleged — and, as it turned out, falsely accused — criminals you pulled out of a Reddit thread to see if your friends can identify them: Ho-hum. Building a section front out of those photos: So last month. The new standard: Posting surveillance photos of eight alleged criminals — at the request of local police — [...]

May 6: Palm Beach Daily News goes sideways with an A1 infographic

Alex Chihak writes: I’m an editor at one of Cox’s hubs, and we design and edit The Palm Beach Post, Austin American-Statesman and the Palm Beach Daily News, or Shiny Sheet. The Shiny Sheet is a seasonal paper. It’s daily during the season (September to May) and twice a week in the offseason. The season’s when the super wealthy people [...]

April 30: Inside the Boston Globe’s eight-page ’102 Hours in Pursuit’ project

I mentioned this past weekend that the Boston Globe ran a comprehensive recap of the events of two weeks ago. The project kicked off on page with with this fabulous picture of the second explosion going off by Globe staffer David L. Ryan. Assistant managing editor Dan Zedek sent us the inside pages for the 102 hours project. These pages [...]

April 30: Six months after Sandy, the N.Y. Daily News looks at a ‘ghost town’

This weekend was the six-month anniversary of Sandy. The New York Daily News — which, you might be aware, lost its headquarters in the superstorm — observed the landmark Monday with these aerial photos of the Breezy Point section of Queens, where more than 100 homes burned to the ground after the storm. The Daily News‘ Kevin Coughlin — who [...]

April 28: Two fabulous Sunday front pages

Two papers today took notable looks back at momentous events in their communities. The Boston Globe today looked back on the five days following the recent bombing at the Boston Marathon. Today’s front page was anchored by a photo I hadn’t seen previously: This picture of the second bomb going off, taken by Globe staffer David L. Ryan. Average daily [...]

April 21: Reminds of of an old Wrigley’s Doublemint gum commercial

So, if you ran your nameplate twice on page one of the Sunday paper, would anybody notice? So, if you ran your nameplate twice on page one of the Sunday paper, would anybody notice? I’ll bet they would. That’s the State of Columbia, S.C., circulation 70,980. Thanks to William Castronuovo — a former associate editor at that paper; “third on [...]

April 20: For your consideration…

The early edition of Saturday’s Boston Globe… …as tweeted tonight by political editor Cynthia Needham. Find the Globe‘s coverage online — free this week to web readers — here. Great job, Globe. Great job all week long.

April 19: I second the motion

  Way to go, RedEye, for putting into words — and visuals — what all of us are thinking today. RedEye, of course, is the free commuter+youth tab published daily by the Chicago Tribune. Its average daily distribution is about 250,000. That front page is from the Newseum. Of course.

April 19: A wild, wild night in Boston

In a city that’s had its share of hell this week, last night was, yes, a night from hell. By now, you’re probably aware of what happened. The FBI released surveillance photos of two “suspects” of the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday. The pictures were beamed around the world on TV and the internet and ended up on page one [...]

April 17: How you cover the Boston bombings if you have no photos

Moriah Smith, creative director of the Iowa State Daily — the student paper at Iowa State University in Ames — writes: I found your post about all the Boston Marathon coverage very interesting. When I saw your favorite headline from the coverage, it brought our front page from today to mind. Iowa State had 16 students who participated in the [...]

April 16: A look at today’s best and not-quite-the-best Boston bombing front pages (6)

As you’re already aware, the Boston Globe and its photography staff rose to the challenge of yesterday’s bombings during the Boston Marathon. Pictures by staffers John Tlumacki and David L. Ryan appeared in papers around the world, bringing the horror and the emotion home for readers everywhere. Here’s a quick review of some of the day’s notable front pages… — [...]

April 16: The front of Tuesday’s Boston Globe (1)

Or, at least, an early edition. As tweeted tonight by the Globe: Go here to find an interactive map showing how the bombings went down. Find the Globe‘s Big Picture Boston Marathon bombing photo gallery here. Find all the Globe‘s Boston Marathon bombing coverage here. — Time magazine’s Lightbox blog today posted a first-person account by Boston Globe photographer John [...]

April 15: An explosive weekend in El Paso, Texas

Kate Gannon, a digital content strategist for Digitalegre in El Paso writes: I wanted to share with you a great cover the local El Paso Times produced yesterday after the demolition of old copper smelter smokestacks.  It was a huge event in the city with thousands of people watching from rooftops, backyards and the hillsides in both El Paso and across [...]

April 7: Newark’s coverage of the basketball scandal at Rutgers

You’ve all seen the video of the Rutgers basketball coach verbally and physically abusing his players. You’ve also seen the Saturday Night Live parody of that video. And you’re probably aware that both the coach and the athletic director lost their jobs as a result of that video going public. Did you know that each of those two officials pocketed [...]

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