Saturday was the Albuquerque Tribune’s last day. E.W. Scripps Co. determined the market could no longer support an afternoon paper and couldn’t find a buyer. The paper’s circulation in January had dwindled to 9,600 from 42,000 in the late ’80s.

The Trib long had a fine reputation as a visual paper. Here’s a slideshow with photos and words from Tribune photographers and editors. Go poke around the Trib’s site and read the remembrances, some of which I’ve linked below.

Incidentally, the guy at right in the 1994 page above is Tribune Managing Editor Neal Pattison, now executive editor at The Herald in Everett, Wash., and a former president of the Society for News Design. (And, full disclosure, the guy on the left is Tribune City Editor Michael Arrieta-Walden, who is now my boss.)

» Mike Davis: We set out to challenge readers and ourselves with the best pictures possible [Albuquerque Tribune]

» Mark Holm: Our photos hold up a mirror to the world and share the responsibility of reporting the news [Albuquerque Tribune]

» Eileen Welsome, Albuquerque Tribune made history with ‘The Plutonium Experiment’ [Albuquerque Tribune]

» Neal Pattison: Take a piece of my heart [Everett Herald]

The Society for News Design has announced the “World’s Best-Designed Newspapers.” They are:

• Akzia in Moscow, daily, circulation 200,000
• Expresso in Paco de Arcos, Portugal, daily, circulation 140,000
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in Frankfurt, Germany, weekly, circulation 320,000
• The Guardian in London, daily, circulation 355,750.

More details, videos, etc., here.

Also, the full database of all SND winners is now online. Update: Well, I guess it's not anymore. Tomorrow, they say. Update2: It's up now!

• Fimoculous.com - misc - A Data Point on Every Block
  Rex Sorgatz's awesome interview of Adrian Holovaty
  (tags: everyblock interview newspapers journalism adrianholovaty django database data mashups maps)

I'm surfacing from my Benadryl fog long enough to note that the judging of SND's Best of Newspaper Design competition began today in Syracuse. There's a lot of blogging and Flickring and videomaking going on. And absolutely no drinking, I'm sure.

• Down with the Newseum and its 6,214 journalism artifacts! - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
  "Can there be a fatter, slower, juicier bull's-eye to sight your scope on than the $450 million Newseum, the four-years-in-the-building, seven-story, steel-and-glass monument to journalistic vanity?"
  (tags: journalism newseum newspapers slate jackshafer)

Here's a collection of Super Tuesday fronts. Lotsa big mugshots abound, as you might expect. The Times-Picayune, however, knows where its beads belong.

• Denver Post To Cut Biz Section
  (tags: newspapers journalism business denverpost)