Poynter’s book of Obama front pages is outstanding
Our copy of Poynter’s President Obama: Election 2008, A Collection of Newspaper Front Pages arrived today.
The book is outstanding. As we’d expect from the Poynter Institute and Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Sara Quinn sifted through hundreds of Nov. 5 newspaper fronts to select 75 she and co-editor Julie Moos had room to display. Included are 12 international newspapers, two student papers and one alternative weekly.
Three pages are shown across double pages: The Orlando Sentinel’s final edition — which, you’ll recall, wrapped around the front section:
This was the only page Poynter edited for the book. They hacked off the strip across the bottom.
Poynter also included the sideways Hartford Courant page:
The sideways page from the Ball State Daily is one of two student papers included:
And the alt-weekly is this interesting one from Oregon:
And, of course, all your favorite Obama pages are there: The Sun-Times, The Patriot-News, The State, The Virginian-Pilot, The Kansas City Star.
The book is beautifully designed, with informative yet unobtrusive captions adding a little perspective for each page. And the reproduction is immaculate. It’s a worthy addition to your bookshelf — right next to your copy of Poynter’s collected 9/11 fronts, perhaps.
Poynter sells the softcover for $14.99 or the hardcover edition for $24.99.
If you’re a member of the Society for News Design, you can get an additional 15 percent off. If you didn’t get an e-mail this week telling you how, drop a line to SND’s fabulous Susan Santoro at susans [at] snd.org.
One additional note: We preordered two copies as soon as the project was announced. Unfortunately, the FedEx guy delivered a wet package.
We mentioned it to our Poynter contacts, who — thirteen minutes later — had fixed everything by shipping us replacement copies. They’ll be here Tuesday, I’m told.
Now that’s customer service. Here’s hoping Santa is very, very good to the fine folks on Third Street.