Julie Moos
Nov. 1, 2012
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Julie Moos
Oct. 31, 2012
8:43 am
The images from Hurricane Sandy have been frightening and moving as they flash across our screens. This week's front pages have made those images stand still. They reveal how we see ourselves and how the world sees us. A selection of today's 20 most interesting fronts appears below. How many ways are there to say "devastated"? You'll see. Pages appear
courtesy of the Newseum, some have been cropped to remove ads.
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Julie Moos
Oct. 29, 2012
7:33 am
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Julie Moos
Oct. 15, 2012
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Andrew Beaujon
Oct. 12, 2012
7:57 am
Who won Thursday night's debate: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan? Vice President Joe Biden?
Moderator Martha Raddatz? The
furniture?
The country's chattering class may need all weekend to argue these points. But in terms of newspaper design, the Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern scored a decisive victory over the (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal. Wisconsin enjoys an unfair advantage in such competitions, with far more print outlets than tiny Delaware to choose from. But despite a snappy headline treatment, even the The Times-Tribune, the daily covering Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pa., can't compete with the Northwestern's use of negative space.
All front pages are courtesy
the Newseum.
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- The space between Ryan's and Biden's heads resembles an inverted Grecian urn in the Oshkosh Northwestern's instant classic front page.
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Julie Moos
Sep. 13, 2012
8:02 am
The New York Times said Wednesday that
it was not planning to use a graphic photo on
its Thursday front page of Christopher Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador killed in Libya this week. "The story had moved forward," Public Editor Margaret Sullivan was told by Managing Editor Dean Baquet, "beyond the point where that photo was as important to the coverage as it was Wednesday morning" when the Times included it in an online gallery despite a request from the State Department to take it down.
Other newspapers did feature the photo of Stevens on their front pages Thursday, including the New York Daily News, the Los Angeles Times and el Nuevo Herald (shown below). Herald sister paper The Miami Herald used a different photo. (Most pages below appear
courtesy of the Newseum; some have been cropped.)
Related: Images can send reassuring, dangerous signals during Libya coverage
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Andrew Beaujon and Julie Moos
Sep. 11, 2012
7:47 am
How do you mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks? For some papers in the cities where the attacks took place, the answer is subtle: It's time to move on. At The New York Times and the New York Post, Sept. 11, 2012, is just another day. Both papers ignored the anniversary entirely on their front pages.
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan wrote in a blog post Tuesday, "The pain, the outrage, the loss – these never fade. The amount of journalism, however, must." Sullivan spoke with two Times editors who noted the difficulty of “anniversary journalism.” (Sullivan will be participating in a live chat on this topic today at 2:30 ET. You can join the chat below or
here.)
“You look for an angle that has news value,” Deputy Metropolitan Editor Wendell Jamieson told her, “and you ask can we mark this day in a creative, exciting and journalistically meaningful way.”
In an appearance on "Morning Joe" last month, New York Times editor Jill Abramson acknowledged that
the Times is "less of a New York paper than it was when I was growing up here and addicted to reading it."
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Julie Moos
Sep. 11, 2012
5:24 am
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Julie Moos
Aug. 29, 2012
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Julie Moos
Aug. 25, 2012
5:21 pm
Neil Armstrong took America to the moon on July 20, 1969 when the astronaut landed there in Apollo 11 with "Buzz" Aldrin and famously declared "
one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Roger Ailes describes the historic communication from space:
“I was in the Oval Office when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon because I was called in to coordinate the coverage,” Ailes recalls. “I got to thinking, We have a feed from the moon. We’ve got a feed from the Earth. I can set up the first interplanetary shot in history.”
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- NBC, which broke the story, initially misidentified Neil Armstrong online. NBC said the mistake was online for seven minutes. There is now a correction on the story. (Screenshot by TVWeek).
The split screen solution made broadcast history. The following day, the moon landing rose on the country's front pages and again on the 40th anniversary in 2009. A selection of those pages appears below (some cropped), along with Sunday's front pages honoring Armstrong, who
died Saturday at the age of 82. ||
Related: In TV coverage
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his death was like his life: strangely muted" (AP) |
The best design decisions & worst mistakes on Armstrong front pages (Charles Apple)
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People tweet memories of moon landing (Sarah Stokely/Neal Mann) | Photos to use (and avoid) for
Sunday front pages featuring Neil Armstrong (Charles Apple) | Nixon speechwriter
William Safire had a eulogy prepared in 1969, in case of a space disaster (
via Jim Roberts) ||
Correction: This post originally stated that Michael Collins, who was also on the Apollo 11 mission, landed on the moon. He did not. Collins remained in orbit.
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