The best of print and the best of the web
Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:34 PM
Every evening when the hour hand passes five, most of us leave our jobs for relaxation and time with family. For the more than four hundred years that newspapers have been dropping onto doorsteps, five o'clock has meant something different for a few folks. Starting around this time, journalists and designers get to work designing tomorrow's front page. It all starts with questions. "What happened today?" "What could happen tonight?" "How important is this story?" "Do we have great pictures that we want on our front page?" "What design and accompanying stories will really capture the history of today?" When everyone is comfortable with the answers to those questions, folks get started drawing the layout of the front page. By early morning, a designed cover is complete and ready to catch each coffee spill.That's not the case with online news. Every news site looks pretty much the same each day. Business, Sports, Politics, Entertainment