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‘News page design’ archive

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April 29: L.A. papers look back on the Rodney King beating post-verdict riots (1)

Brian Harr, executive news editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, writes: Thought you might like to see what we did for the [20th] anniversary of the L.A. riots. We made the call to not take a start out there but just go with the art. In addition, Brian chose to take down the size of the nameplate. The photo [...]

April 26: How the Daily Iowan played Wednesday’s presidential visit (2)

Sam Lane — co-editor-in-chief of the Daily Iowan, the student newspaper at the University of Iowa — writes: I just wanted to shoot you a note about our Obama coverage today. I saw you post The Daily Tar Heel‘s front the other day and I thought you might be interested in checking out ours. For the front, we liked the [...]

April 25: How the Daily Tar Heel played Tuesdays’ presidential visit

The Daily Tar Heel — the student paper at the University of North Carolina — ran a poster front this morning of President Barack Obama, who visited campus Tuesday. No headline. No story. No nuthin’, really, other than the smaller-than-usual nameplate and the nice quote along the very bottom. Not even a photo credit, in fact. Which might be going [...]

April 24: Behind the York (Pa.) Daily Record’s look back at a tragic school shooting (2)

The Daily Record of York, Pa., published what, for them, was an unusual front page this past Sunday. The centerpiece is but a promo referring inside to four full pages of coverage commemorating the ninth anniversary of a shooting in a local junior high school cafeteria that left the school’s principal — as well as the 14-year-old boy who shot [...]

April 24: Great time-lapse shot of a drone plane in action over Afghanistan (2)

Photographer James Robinson of the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer is in Afghanistan this week, embedded — along with reporter Drew Brooks — with troops from nearby Fort Bragg. The story they sent back for today’s paper is about the drone aircraft operated out of Pasab, Afghanistan, by the 508th Special Troops Battalion of the 4th Brigade Combat Team. What caught my [...]

April 24: How two student newspapers are dealing with the week before finals

This week is “dead week” at Indiana University. It’s the last week of classes. Final exams are held next week. This week is intended for study and reflection. Which is a bit of a joke, of course. We didn’t fall for that back when I was in college way back in the 20th century. And students don’t fall for it [...]

April 23: Two top-notch Monday morning page-one headlines

I didn’t see a whole lot to get excited about design-wise in my morning romp through the Newseum. However, I did spot a couple of headlines worthy of your attention… — SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Salt Lake City, Utah Circulation: 105,746 The Salt Lake Tribune built page one today around a story about a local conservationist who’s an expert on local [...]

April 22: St. Louis Post-Dispatch looks back on last year’s tornado

Given all the terrible storms that struck places like Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Joplin, Mo., last year, it’s easy to forget the tornado that struck St. Louis. Had it not been for the direct hit on Lambert Airport, we might not remember that one at all. But that’s only because most of us don’t live in St. Louis. Tornadoes wield tremendous [...]

April 22: Sioux City, Iowa, runs a full-front-page anti-bullying editorial

Following the heartbreaking suicide of a 14-year-old high school student in nearby Primghar, Iowa, last Sunday the Sioux City Journal cleared off its front page today for a powerful, full-page anti-bullying editorial. Click for a much larger view. The art is by Brian Duffy, a nationally-syndicated cartoonist based in Des Moines. Brian spent 25 years as cartoonist for the Des [...]

April 21: Now, THIS is how you humiliate another city’s sports fans (2)

“Dear staff of the Philadelphia Daily News, “We here at the New York Post read with great interest the way you taunted the hockey fans in Pittsburgh with your ‘Cowardly Penguin’ front page the other day. And the way the Chicago Tribune had taunted your own hockey fans with a ‘Chrissy Pronger’ poster two years before.   “Amusing stuff. But [...]

April 20: Amazing design work by a biweekly community college newspaper

Something stumbled across my email basket this week that knocked my socks off: A community college newspaper. Student staffer David Leonard explains: We’re a 3,000-circulation newspaper serving the 30,000 students of Palomar College in sunny San Marcos, California (just north of San Diego). We publish a bit irregularly now for a couple of reasons, but we run 11 issues each [...]

April 20: Today’s most interesting front-page illustration (1)

A noted visual journalist — one I shall not name — writes this morning: Maybe I have a dirty mind (which makes me a good copy editor, right?), but I do NOT think sandwich when I look at this. I mean, I get what they were trying to do, but … The page to which she refers is this one [...]

April 19: This fun ASF on allergies is nothing to sneeze at

For many of us here in the U.S., allergy season is well underway. And there’s no better way to tell readers what’s making them sneeze — and how — than an Alternative Story Form. If that ASF can run on page one — which was the case today with the 28,900-circulation Advocate of Victoria, Texas — then it’s even more [...]

April 19: A couple of minor A1 infographic problems today (4)

I found two front pages today that contained minor issues with infographics. — TIMES NEWS Lehighton, Pa. Circulation: 11,963 This might be news for former presidential candidate Rick Santorum, but guess what? Pennsylvania leans to the left. At least, that’s the way it appears in the drought severity map on the front page of today’s Times News of Lehighton, Pa. [...]

April 18: Today’s big story: The L.A. Times’ front-page photo of soldiers and dead insurgents

The big story this morning: The Los Angeles Times ran a photo of U.S. troops posing with dead Afghan insurgent suicide bombers. On the front page. As you might imagine, this has caused quite a ruckus today. The Times‘ David Zucchino reports: The 82nd Airborne Division [from Fort Bragg, N.C.]  soldiers arrived at the police station in Afghanistan’s Zabol province [...]

April 17: How Pulitzer-winning newspapers played their prizes on page one (2)

— UPDATE – 2:10 p.m. Links to winning entries added. — Granted, it’s a big deal when a news organization wins a Pulitzer Prize. It shows the commitment your newspaper has made to excellence — especially important when nearly everyone is cutting back on reporters, copy editors, photographers and designers. So you really can’t blame a paper for pushing its [...]

April 16: Virginia Tech student paper looks back on the shootings, five years ago today

Today is the fifth anniversary of the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech that left 32 dead. The student paper at Virginia Tech — the Collegiate Times — marked the event today with a special edition. Here’s the cover: The front page story is by editor-in-chief Zach Crizer. Read it here. Pages two and three continue the story off the front [...]

April 15: Fun front-page illustration depicts Facebook’s software engineers

Today, the San Jose Mercury News ran an interesting story on the learning curve — “Boot Camp,” they call it — through which Facebook puts all its newly-hired programmers. The Merc‘s Mike Swift writes: Bootcamp is one part employee orientation, one part software training program and one part fraternity/sorority rush. When new engineering recruits are hired at Facebook, they typically [...]

April 15: They might not have been ‘innovative.’ But today’s Titanic front pages were, in fact, effective. (3)

I was loathe to write about today’s Titanic front pages. Before I even thought out getting out of bed this morning, the Poynter Institute’s Julie Moos posted a large number of front pages from the Newseum. I changed my mind, though, when I saw this tweet from Ian Hill, currently of KQED News in San Francisco and formerly of the [...]

April 12: More about the iPhone-wielding 17-year-old who shot the iconic jet crash photo last week in Virginia Beach

Yesterday, the Virginian-Pilot ran a story about a 17-year-old 11th grader who took this photo of last week’s F/A-18D Hornet crash here in Virginia Beach. The Pilot‘s Scott Daugherty reports: When a fighter jet crashed into an apartment building Friday, Zack Zapatero dropped his tennis racket, picked up his iPhone 4S and started snapping pictures. The 17-year-old junior at Cape [...]

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