A decade has passed since newspapers began telling the story of the
post-9/11 world.
Ten years of front pages describe the events that followed the attack that killed nearly 3,000 people: The war on terrorism; the war in Iraq; the capture and hanging of Saddam Hussein; the war in Afghanistan; the rebuilding of Ground Zero, and the death of Osama bin Laden.
We have compiled and posted some of these front pages below, with thanks to the Newseum and all the newspapers that have helped create and preserve Page One memories from the last 10 years.
2001 FRONT PAGES
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- September 11, 2001: Newsday
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- September 12, 2001: The New York Times (Related: “Portraits of Grief” & additional stories)
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- September 12, 2001: The Washington Post (Related: Recent & archival stories)
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- September 12, 2001: Sun (Bremerton, Washington)
2002 FRONT PAGES
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- February 22, 2002: The Wall Street Journal (Article: “Reporter Daniel Pearl Is Dead“) (Related: Daniel Pearl Foundation)
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- September 11, 2002: The Des Moines Register
2003 FRONT PAGES
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- March 30, 2003: San Francisco Chronicle
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- March 30, 2003: The Daily Telegraph (London, England)
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- April 10, 2003: The Charlotte Observer
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- April 10, 2003: New York Post
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- May 2, 2003: The New York Times (Related: Additional information about President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech)
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- December 15, 2003: The Seattle Times
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- December 15, 2003: Liberation (Paris, France)
2004 FRONT PAGES
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- June 29, 2004: The Guardian
2005 FRONT PAGES
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- January 31, 2005: Rocky Mountain News
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- July 8, 2005: Daily MIrror (London, England)
2006 FRONT PAGES
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- March 31, 2006: Christian Science Monitor (Article: “Jill Carroll: Finally Free”)
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- September 12, 2006: Daily News
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- September 12, 2006: Newsday
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- December 31, 2006: Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia)
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- December 31, 2006: Alwaqt (Manama, Bahrain)
2007 FRONT PAGES
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- June 18, 2007: The Washington Post (Anne Hull, Dana Priest & Michel du Cille’s series on Walter Reed Hospital earned a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.)
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- October 10, 2007: The Olympian
2008 FRONT PAGES
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- March 19, 2008: Winston-Salem Journal
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- September 11, 2008: The Citizens’ Voice (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
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- September 12, 2008: Daily News
2009 FRONT PAGES
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- May 22, 2009: Akron Beacon Journal
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- December 4, 2009: Stars and Stripes
2010 FRONT PAGES
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- August 19, 2010: Los Angeles Times
2011 FRONT PAGES
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- May 2, 2011: St. Petersburg Times (Related: Poynter’s collection of Osama bin Laden newspapers, May 2, 2011)
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- May 3, 2011: Chicago Sun-Times
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- May 3, 2011: Daily Herald (Suburban, Chicago)
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- May 3: La Stampa (Turin, Italy)
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