And it’s a hoot, too.
Spain plays Germany today in the World Cup semifinal. The winner will take on the Netherlands, famous for wearing orange.
Here is the front page of today’s die Welt of Berlin:
The headline on that cryptic lead art reads:
By pressing the finals
A closer look:
Now, that’s clever.
So, have you seen today’s Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Ill.?
Click for a larger view:
Daily Herald news editor Neil Holdway writes:
As part of our ongoing coverage of LeBron James‘ possible move to the Chicago Bulls, we put basic and fun facts about James on our front page, including an actual-size image of his shoe.
The design work was done by our news/art graphics editor, Tim Broderick.
…with a photoillustrating assist from intern Kelly Mantz of Illinois State University.
Hey, at least it wasn’t printed with scratch-and-sniff ink!
Fun stuff! Download a full-sized PDF version here.
Average daily circulation for the Daily Herald is 111,539.
Note: This is one of two posts I was trying to write Tuesday when our servers came crashing down around our ankles. Rather than let it go, I’m posting it a day late.
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There were a number of things that stood out during my daily run through the Newseum — and most of them were brought to us by smaller and medium-sized papers.
And that delights me no end, my friends. There’s nothing quite like finding a stunning news presentation and then realizing it was published by a paper, say, 50,000 or below in circulation size. We need more scrappy little papers like this — ones that kick ass both locally and visually.
Our first page is from the Gazette of Charleston, West Virginia, which celebrated the passing of its beloved senator Robert Byrd with a 20-year-old — but brilliantly scenic — file photo:
Kudos to the 48,061-circulation Gazette for turning over its entire front to displaying Sen. Byrd. And a double-dipping of kudos for that photo by staffer Jim Noelker, who shot this in 1990 (click for a larger view):
Ain’t that just grand? That’s how you celebrate the life of a figure as huge as Byrd.
West Hawaii Today — a 13,000-circulation daily in Kailua, Hawaii — had the opposite problem: How do you show something that’s not been built yet, without relying on handout photos?
Yeah, that can be a problem. And sometimes, it’s not a problem at all. Handouts were no weakness at all for WHT:
Obviously, the designers extended the sky and the mountain. But that doesn’t seem a problem with a handout photo. Or, at least, it doesn’t bother me.
Next up: A paper you’ve seen featured here several times lately, the News-Press of St. Joseph, Mo., with yet another in a long series of over-the-nameplate news photo treatments:
That photo — of a house with a new second floor in progress interrupted by heavy flooding — is by staffer Eric Keith (click for a larger view):
Average daily circulation for the News-Press is 29,295.
In Canton, Ohio, the big story is the nearly $2.5 million that a city official embezzled over five years from the treasury. The Repository plastered A1 with a diagram showing just how much money that would be, if it were piled up at one time:
That’s not even actual size — it couldn’t possibly have been printed actual size. A stack of $20 bills containing $2.46 million would be 44.2 feet tall, the graphic says. The designer even broke the total down year-to-year (click for a larger view)…
…and presented the text as a short-form Alternative Story Form.
My only complaint? No credit to the artist or designer. Surely he or she earned one here.
Average daily circulation for the Repository is 61,036.
In Sanford, N.C., the Herald — circulation 8,162 — focused on last night’s midnight showing of the new entry in the Twilight saga, a movie called Eclipse:
Not only is that a cool way to reach out to teen — and tween — readers, it’s also very well-designed. The ribbon is a visual reference to the actual book cover. I love the way it interacts with the old-English drop cap, the large-type lead-in and the brilliant headline.
I was equally delighted with this presentation of a bridge collapse follow in yesterday’s Pioneer Press of St. Paul, Minn.:
By this time, I’d imagine the Pioneer Press has used every file photo a bazillion times. Granted, I’ve not looked at every one. But this one seems fresh and new and visually interesting:
Average daily circulation for the Pioneer Press is 185,220.