A Wednesday roundup
A HURTIN’ AT THE AJC
Tiffany Hurt of The St. Petersburg Times is moving to a news design position at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Read all about it in the SND Region 3 blog by Melissa Angle.
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MUSH! MUSH!
Rich Boudet shows pages of how The Anchorage Daily News covered this year’s Iditarod.
Plus, he shows web pages that used GPS to track the competition.
Check it out at SportsDesigner.
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VOTE ON YOUR FAVORITE BUTT-UGLY TIME COVER
SND/Update points to an interesting feature in which Time magazine confesses it’s all-time worst covers.
My own favorite is currently ranked No. 13 — this hideously ugly one from May 1928, featuring the Chicago Tribune’s Col. Robert McCormick (left) and The New York Daily News‘ Joseph Medill Patterson:
One has to wonder how many copies that sold.
Find the complete list — and vote on your own picks — here.
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AP PUTS THE BITE ON CNN ANAYLIST
While we were enjoying the way New York’s tabs played the Spitzer sex scandal story yesterday, the Associated Press was having some fun of its own.
The AP’s David Bauder reported last night:
CNN said it shouldn’t have used a former U.S. attorney who quit his job after allegedly biting a stripper as an analyst about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution scandal.
No mention of Kendall Coffey’s past was made when anchor Tony Harris interviewed him Tuesday on the legal questions surrounding Spitzer’s case. Coffey quit his job in May 1996 after being accused of biting a topless dancer on the arm during a visit to an adult club after losing a big drug case.
The story’s on the AP wire. I happened to read it in The San Francisco Chronicle.
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THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO
In case you missed it, Newsdesigner Mark Friesen posted a link yesterday to the incredible story behind this famous, Pulitzer-winning photograph taken by Stanley Forman of The Boston Herald-American during an anti-busing rally in Boston in 1976:
‘The Soiling of Old Glory’ © 1976 Stanley Forman
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The story, by Louis P. Masur, is posted at The Digital Journalist.
It’s a must-read, people. Check it out.