The Front Page(s)

Doug Ross calls my attention to this cool feature at the Newseum, which is a thing started by Al Neuharth of that other big newspaper company, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless. As Doug describes it:

You might think this is cool…  see the front pages from newspapers across the country just by clicking on dots on a U.S. map… The State is included…

Actually, you see large thumbnails of the pages just by scrolling over those points on the map. You get a larger, more legible version by clicking. Here’s the site again.

By the way — and here I’m going to veer into a plug for my own paper — if you’d like to read your entire newspaper in that format (sort of a cross between the actual paper and the Web version), The State actually sells subscriptions for just that. And you can do a free 7-day tryout. Here’s how:

  • log
    onto www.thestate.com
  • click
    on "NEW! Digital E-State" in upper left hand corner beneath green
    bar.
  • select
    appropriate link in yellow box (one day free pass, subscribe or
    already registered for current online subscribers or registered 7-day
    print subscribers).
  • follow
    directions on subsequent screens to complete process.

And no, I didn’t get paid extra for that. The Newseum thing just made me think about it, and in case y’all were interested, I e-mailed our Circulation department to get the info.

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