Notable Tuesday front pages: Oil, rain, ice, rats and blackberries
Fun or interesting stuff from my daily sweep through the Newseum…
My old pal Dan Swenson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune is at it again with another detailed map of the BP oil spill (click for a larger view):
Not only is the graphic good but also, that’s a cool abstract-like picture by staffer Ted Jackson. I love with the Times-Picayune is doing with the spill in its backyard. I just wish it’d post to the Newseum more regularly.
Find some of Dan’s previous oil spill graphics here. The Times-Picayune has an average daily circulation of 157,068.
In Oklahoma City, two things of note on the front of today’s Oklahoman, circulation 151,264.
First, please note the amusing Big 12 conference promo across the top. See the tape holding together the conference logo? (Click this, too, for a larger look.)
Secondly, of course, is the length-of-the-page ruler down the right side recounting how the area received ten-and-a-half inches of rain over 12 hours and nearly six-and-a-half inches in three hours between 5 and 8 a.m.
That’s a lot of rain.
That’s also nice lead art by staffer Paul Hellstern.
For those of you who didn’t have their fill of Stanley Cup-hoisting pages out of Chicago last week, here’s a local hockey team in Hershey, Pa., celebrating its 11th Caulder Cup championship Monday:
The paper is the Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa. — circulation 77,598 — and the photographer was staffer Sean Simmons. The abbreviated nameplate at the top right of this poster page fits nicely with the A1 Spadea Harrisburg runs every day, rain or shine.
Here’s one for all you folks eager to find ways to work new media into centerpiece news stories…
The Post-Standard of Syracuse, N.Y. — circulation 89,819 — ran a front-page story today about the city’s mayor. Whenever she spots something amiss, broken or out-of-code, the mayor snaps a pic with her blackberry and sends it to the folks down at city hall:
Read the very cool story here by staffer Michelle Breidenbach. The A1 art is by John Berry. The secondary photos are by… well, they’re by the mayor.
The Post-Standard followed this story with an online gallery of similar shots sent in by readers who spotted similar eyesores. Read about that here.
No word yet on whether or not the Carrier Dome will make it into the gallery or the city’s clean-up efforts. One can only hope.
Next up, we’ll see a story about a mayor who uses Foursquare to get named mayor of various places around town. You heard it here first.
Look who it is on the cover of today’s Chicago RedEye, circulation 250,000!
Oh, sorry. My mistake. I thought it might be former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
There’s no mistake on this next page, though. The cover of today’s Tampa Bay Times depicts Florida Gov. Charlie Crist encountering a couple of his constituents:
“Keep it clean, Charlie.” Very funny. You can count on the lovable wiseasses at TBT to come up with a crack like that.