



Here's a freaky occurrence from Newspagedesigner. The Virginian-Pilot and the Northern Virginia Daily, about 400 miles apart, came up with eerily similar Spain centerpieces on March 12.
Cool: not one but two arguments against use of reverse type on the SAME day.
Posted by: tom at March 16, 2004 7:39 AMI designed the page on the right (The Virginian-Pilot, "Who did this?"). Yes, the fact that these pages turned out in similar fashion is a coincidence. A lot of front pages on big-news days look similar -- same headlines, same photos. Please fill me in. What is the argument against the use of reverse type?
Posted by: Julie Elman at March 27, 2004 10:16 AMHey, Julie!
Just pointing out the freakiness of it. Same hed, similar use of reverse type, etc. Didn't mean to imply it wasn't a coincidence.
I'll let Tom speak for himself about the reverse type, but your page doesn't bother me on that front. It's a restrained use and much more successful than the other page. The cutline's short and the color of the top deck is a better contrast to the black.
Posted by: newsdesigner at March 27, 2004 3:20 PMHi newsdesigner,
I saw a page on the newseum site on the day the Fallujah photos ran -- and, one paper (in Penn., I believe) ran this headline for that story: "Who did this?" (In this case, I think we have a better idea of the answer to that question.) I'm amazed at how different papers can have such different treatments for the same story -- and I am also amazed when papers have strikingly similar treatments. For a while, we had a bulletin board at The Pilot filled with pages (our paper paired up with another) that were nearly the same (headlines, visual treatment). It was eerie.
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