The
Rocky's manhunt coverage had far more impact than the
Post's in Denver, which used a lead photo of people standing around an art museum. Boring! In another same-city faceoff,
RedEye displayed a clarity that the
Chicago Sun-Times did not, right down to the Obama promo.
The Twin Cities had dueling headlines in the
StarTribune and
Pioneer Press. But elsewhere in Minnesota, there was a different kind of turf war in
Duluth.
The Baltimore Sun resurrected round photos from a century ago.
The Plain Dealer's above-the-nameplate promo spoke with perfect pitch, as long as all that text that was reversed out of color remained legible.
The newspaper with the best front design today is the Omaha World Herald for making great use of white space.
Typically, newspapers shout when they want attention But sometimes, you can get more attention with a whisper. The Omaha World Herald drew attention to its centerpiece on safe haven by surrounding its images with an ocean of white space, which made this story impossible to ignore.
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