


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:
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!
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.

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.
