Obama’s re-election: 17 iconic newspaper frontpages and magazine covers
A collection of work that inspires me.
I'm a visual journalist currently working at a small, daily newspaper in Texas.
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I'm a visual journalist currently working at a small, daily newspaper in Texas.
Check out my website/portfolio at www.luisgrendon.com. The Visual Journalist
Get ready New York…
Brilliant. Such a show of quiet resiliency. Their best cover since this one.
The theme of today’s front pages: pointing.
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Stereotypes wrapped in the flag
Forum, May 13, 2012
Andrea Levy, illustrator; Mary Lou Sneyd, designer
Nice page to accompany an intriguing piece by journalist Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation bemoaning election season, when politicians and the media feels stereotypes are okay.
“In politics, it’s entirely acceptable to wonder aloud what black people want, how Hispanics think, or whether a new policy proposal would play well with women or people who go to church on Sundays. We feel comfortable reducing people in this way because such conclusions aren’t solely stereotypes, we tell ourselves — they are backed up by polling data.”
copyright 2012
The Plain Dealer always has the best editorial pages. Seriously, no other paper puts together beautiful packages this like in their opinion section. Way to not throw away any pages Plain Dealer.
Welcome to our first edition of the Newsweek also-rans, a brand new nwk tumblr feature from our friends in the art department!
Here’s Dirk Barnett, Newsweek & The Daily Beast’s Creative Director:
Every week we produce anywhere from 10-20 different cover ideas until we settle on what works best or as the story develops, so at the end of each week we wind up with a proverbial wastebasket full of scrapped concepts.
The week’s cover, “The Politics of Sex,” is a perfect example to kick this off. These directions are a combination of ideas generated in-house and commissions to various illustrators, designers, studios, ad agencies, etc. This week, we tapped the creative minds at ad agency Hill Holiday and the design studio Dress Code, as well as renowned book designer Rodrigo Corral. Take a look at what’s left on our cutting room floor this week. Enjoy!
Here’s the cover that made newsstands this week. Which of the also-rans is your favorite?
[Design credits, from top left: Dress Code, Dress Code, Hill Holiday, Hill Holiday, Hill Holiday, Rodrigo Corral, Rodrigo Corral]
Again, I can’t get over how great Newsweek is looking after their redesign.
Front page, The Oakland Tribune, Wednesday 26 October 2011.
The cop, swinging his baton with impunity.
Good for the Tribune. It must have been crazy in the newsroom to rework that front and get the space they needed to tell the story.
gq:
Don’t Ask, Don’tTELLWith the formal end of DADT less than a month away, GQ’s Chris Heath spent six months assembling an oral-history-of-sorts about what it was like to be a gay man serving in the U.S. military. The resulting piece, which appears in our Sept 2011 issue and runs a bit longer at GQ.com, is funny, sad, horrifying and, above all, surprising. Life under DADT is both everything—and nothing—like one might expect. A brief sample below, from a heartbreaking section of the piece titled “Invisible Partners”:
Air Force #4 (senior airman, four years): “Right now our relationships don’t exist.”
Air Force #3: “I’ve had three deployments [while] with the same person. Every time it’s been ‘All right, see you later.’ All the spouses get together, do stuff. He’s just there by himself, fending for himself.”
Marines #2: “The relationship lasted for about four years, but I always felt like I was disrespecting him, to have to pretend he didn’t exist when I went to work. When I got deployed, he was there with my family when I left. It kind of sucked—to shake his hand and a little pat on the back and ‘I’ll see you when I see you’ kind of thing. And when you’re getting ready to come back, the spouses were getting classes—here’s how you welcome your Marine back into the family—and my boyfriend didn’t get any of that. I had a really hard time adjusting to being home. We tried to make it work for a year but he was getting more and more paranoid about people finding out about us. It killed me that he felt that way because of me. I don’t think we ever really had a chance, ultimately.”
Air Force #3: “When I was deployed, every Sunday we would sit down on opposite sides of the world and we would each order a pizza and we would watch a movie together over Skype. We weren’t doing anything bad except trying to spend some time together. But there was no ‘I love you.’ Certainly nothing sexual, or anything like what some straight guys do over Skype.”
Navy #2 (captain, twenty years): “Personally, I haven’t had a lot of struggles. The hardest thing that I faced was about eight years ago. I was dating somebody for about two years who had gotten out of the army. He was HIV positive, and I didn’t know that, and he ended up dying—it just happened very quickly. I am not positive, luckily. So I had a lot of difficulties grasping with that personally, dealing with his death, and I had to take time off work, but still not tell them. I couldn’t go to the doctor or the psychologist. There wasn’t really anybody to talk to.”
What a great piece of journalism.
PHOTOS: The Week in Pictures
A collection of the day’s best photos from around the world.
I think the Denver Post has quickly become one of my favorite Newspaper Tumblrs. They promote their own content well and are easily the best group to utilize the the new tumblr photo magazine feature. I hope their work translates into people heading over to their website and picking up their paper.
