A study in contrasts
Darren Sanefski — much more enterprising than I — got up early this morning to study how newspapers around the country dealt with Monday’s stock market meltdown.
In his session, he pointed out a number of interesting treatments. I’m fascinated by the contrast in these two papers:

On the left is the very well-designed Hartford Courant. On the right, of course, is the equally well-designed — but very different — Virginian-Pilot, my former paper.
Both wonderful. Each with different audiences.
For a larger view, tag the thumbnails:
Find these — and many more — at the Newseum.






September 16th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Good thing you didn’t show my paper.