The New Yorker has a notoriously strange system for picking and rejecting covers (just ask R. Crumb)—and in recent years, longtime art director Françoise Mouly has been putting some of those rejected covers online here (along with hosting several cover contests). This week, a hardcopy version of those covers is being released—so now's as good a time as any to revisit them, including the NY-centric ones above.
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Revisit The Best Rejected New Yorker Covers
Star-Ledger's Eloquent Front Page On 10th Anniversary of 9/11, Plus Other Newspaper Reflections
Some of the most indelible images associated with the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 came from newspapers covers. Looking back through those front pages from 9/12/01, there is one overriding similarity between them: they almost all include a picture of the towers on fire. Newspapers around the country have taken a more varied approach toward covering the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and almost none have a picture of the burning towers on them, preferring instead to focus on the Freedom Tower, victims, or other abstract designs. Take a look through some of today's covers, including our favorite, the eloquent front of The NJ Star-Ledger.
NY Post Rumored To Raise Price Of Priceless Newspaper
The price of perfection is about to be raised ever so higher: according to Adweek, the NY Post is raising the newsstand price of the paper a quarter, to 75 cents, next Monday. The secret initiative came with its own mandate from the higher-ups to put out better stories to offset the change in price: “The boss himself has put the order out that [the paper] will be even greater than usual. He’ll be looking for what is there and what is lacking. So, please, pull some good ones out of your bags of tricks,” said one memo to the reporters.
Cowering Under Covers During Burglary Proven Effective
Whenever we hear anything go bump in the night we instinctively slide down under the covers and hide breathlessly until dawn. Not because we're paralyzed with fear, mind you, but because this is a time-honored technique that has helped us to survive countless monster attacks and alien abductions. And it even works as a defense against prowlers, as Bushwick resident Katherine Garcia proved Sunday morning.
Covered: NY Mets' Firing of Willie Randolph
The local papers have weighed in and made the Mets' firing of manager Willie Randolph their number 1, 2 and 3 topics. Angry over how Randolph was fired (flying him all the way out to Los Angeles?!? And Omar Minaya claiming that the media speculation pushed him to fire Randolph?), yes, but the tabloids were probably angry over something else: The fact that the firing took place around midnight PST/3 a.m. ESt, which meant it was too late to get into yesterday papers! So today, it's all about the Mets.
Tabloid Double Vision, NY Times Climbers Edition
The Post and Daily News gleefully put the old Gray Lady on their covers with the same headline--"The New York Climbs"--in the Times' headline font. The NY Times tucks mention of the pair of unrelated climbers, Alain Robert and Ray Clark, who scaled its building to the bottom of the front page.
Super Cover Day for the Giants
If there's one thing to warm up New Yorkers - and New York newspaper editors thinking about a holiday issue - today, it's the Giants' NFC Championship win over the Green Bay Packers. Let's look at how they touted the big win.
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