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The Washington Post
Naturally, we begin with the nation's capital's paper of record, which played it pretty straight on A1. This is a newsy front page that is about the journalism, which I love.
Chicago Tribune
The Trib's front page is clean and simple on a day when many designers just had to add their thumbprints. But it's underwhelming compared with the massive amount of coverage inside. Including the special section, the Trib was in the 100-page range, which is mind-bogglingly impressive.
Las Vegas Sun
I was very glad someone used this photo, even though the Sun gets inserted in its JOA partner, the Review-Journal. (The Hampton Roads (Va.) Daily Press did, as well, but sideways on A1). Some might call the photo itself a little cheesy with the whole frame-within-a-frame concept using the curtains. But it's a look from behind the scenes we didn't otherwise get to see.
The Dallas Morning News
This was the full package. My favorite photo - and they left it alone with no cropping or adding more blue sky (which shamefully went on at several U.S. papers) - combined with pushing the 18-hour-old story forward with an analysis piece on the front, plus teases to unique local coverage inside.
The Salt Lake Tribune
Very few papers in America are given the freedom to pull something like this off. The page is elegant and memorable, but it has a wedding or senior prom feel to it that I can't get past.
Chicago Sun-Times
One of the two majors in Obama's hometown, the Sun-Times pretty well stuck to its formula - full-front photo and headline. Of all the photos to zoom and crop on, though, this wasn't the one - the copies I saw didn't hold up well and had begun to pixelate. But Oprah loves it, so it's got that going for it. |