We spend an enormous amount of time thinking about what will be on our front page. That makes sense. It’s our front door and the first thing that readers see when they pick up the paper, even if it’s just to thumb through the sections looking for Sports or the Jumble.
Today is a day filled with news—and most of the big stories are national. There’s the POTUS/SOTU (President of the United States State of the Union), the confirmation of Sam Alito to replace Sandra Day O’Connor, and the death of Coretta Scott King.
They compete with each other for the prime real estate on the front page, and with local stories that may be exclusive to us and have more immediate impact on our communities. The trick is to have a front page that tells what happened, why it happened, and doesn’t look dated by the time it hits porches, yards and newsracks tomorrow morning.
So we juggle and adjust. And then we juggle again.
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