Last month (November 2008) when the US elected a new President it was big news worldwide. Barack Obama beat John McCain to become America's 44th President, the first African American President is US history. All over the internet, websites started displaying, comparing and commentating on newspaper front pages from all over the world. The biggest collection of "US election" front pages was at the Newseum site with over 700 examples from 60-odd countries... (all with downloadable PDFs also).... if you look long enough you'll even find the AFR one - though, because of the time difference between Australia and the US, the AFR US election edition is actually on the "next day's" page!!
Below are the AFR's and SMH's front pages.... Neither paper varied too much from their "usual" edition styles which was a little disappointing. Given it was arguablly the biggest news story in recent time, more could've been done to make the editions leap off the stands like The Daily Telegraph and Syndey's MX newspaper's did.
Below I've added a few more of interest (no I didn't look at all 700 of them!!).... some used a single image and large header to dominate the whole front page, and others used different approaches with graphics and multiple images. I thought the two newspapers below that used smaller black & white images of the past 43 US presidents were interesting. The Staten Island Advance in particular was the boldest use of images I saw.
I've included a cover from Spain here also which features a US-flag style graphic which is something along the lines of what Dot had been suggesting we investigate at the Fin. The graphic end up dominating the whole cover and looked OK. It was interesting to see how it was done too because at the time I hadn't been able to envisage exactly what Dot was suggesting.
Go and have a look at the Newseum site..... there's plenty of front pages there every day.... some with graphics too... (Les)
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