Newspaper front pages from a historic election
Maybe it's just because I'm in the newspaper industry, but I love to look at front pages of various newspapers the day after a huge event. Yesterday's Presidential election was just that. So I thought I'd share some of the front pages from around the country and the world, starting with ours:
You can see more of today's front pages at the Newseum, which collects the front page everyday.
Comments:
Great collection. How soon will we see "Obama Rolls" on sushi menus around the nation?
I wanted at least one headline to read: "Rock out with your Barack out"
Posted by: Travis Sheridan at November 5, 2008 11:56 AM
Whatever. You just posted the Bee's front page because your picture is on the bottom of it.
Posted by: Heather at November 5, 2008 12:04 PM
my favorite is (and i cant believe im saying this) the bakersfield paper. the presentation (with the quote) and the unique headline work very well together.
kudos go to kansas city. you can read that he's walking through history ... well produced.
surprised about chicago sun-times' approach (nice cover, but they are based down the street from where obama was -- no photo from his speech?)
and im mixed about orlando (the paper i worked at before coming here to fresno): an absolutely classic approach -- no text needed, but i hope they got a lot of money from universal studios for that ad. [sigh]
oh, and i liked ours a lot.
Posted by: will at November 5, 2008 12:06 PM
YES!!!!!!!!!
he will now have to fix the economy bush and the gang trashed though
Posted by: dave at November 5, 2008 12:27 PM
I love the international ones. It gives me great hope that even just electing Obama betters our bad standing in the international eye.
Posted by: adam at November 5, 2008 12:28 PM
Take a look at this widget:
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/todays-newspaper-frontpages-by-map
It shows international newspapers by continent and country and you can click to read the entire front page in full size.
Posted by: Newspaper Man at November 5, 2008 3:06 PM
Just throwing this out there:
The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bakersfield Californian and Kansas City Star opt to use one giant photo -- the most dramatic statement a newspaper can make -- of Obama on the occasion of the first African-American president-elect.
For its big splash, the Fresno Bee opts to use one giant photo of a college baseball team that won an annual championship whose relative importance to the world (and, dare I say, even this community) is about one-one-thousandth in order of magnitude.
Misplaced priorities?
Posted by: Donald Munro at November 5, 2008 3:50 PM
Nice compilation -- headline should have said "an historic election," right? C'mon do the Kent Brockman thing next time.
Posted by: adrian at November 5, 2008 4:23 PM
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