Hottest Item- Newspapers, Mags Featuring President-Elect Obama 11/09/2008

President-Elect Barack Obama’s campaign created a posted featuring the front pages of many newspapers. The images were compiled by the Newseum, which collects front pages from more than 600 newspapers from around the world every day.

Several newspapers had to print more editions Wednesday and due to sellouts newspapers such as the Tennessean in Nashville printed special Sunday sections. Also, Obama’s hometown Chicago Sun-Times and the Commercial Appeal in Memphis also published special Sudnay sections.

Nov. 5 Papers Sold Out, People Wait Hours For Later Press Runs 11/06/2008

I was a newspaper reporter for more than a decade and I tend to keep newspapers whenever I travel or in the wake of pivotal moments – i.e., the New York Times after 9/11; the Washington Post for the Million Man March; Times-Picayune for its Hurricane Katrina coverage; etc.
Evidently others do the same. I couldn’t help but chuckle that long voter lines were replaced by lines of people waiting to buy editions of the Post or the Baltimore Sun or USA Today. I asked my mother in Maryland to save her home-delivery copy of the Post. When she wanted to buy extra copies and other papers as she headed to work, she found lines at several venues. My best friend in Maryland also encountered the same thing. And like on Election Day, the wait was festive, according to media reports, but it lasted for several hours in some instances.

NOTE: The Post will sell a commemorative editionof the Nov. 5 issue on Friday.If anyone would like to see front pages of more than 600 newspapers from around the world, visit the Newseum Web site.
Also, several newspapers tend to sell collectible press plates.

Front Pages After Nation Elects Obama 11/05/2008

The Newseum will display 600 Election front pages. Every day the Newseum receives displays from hundreds of newspapers such as The Anniston Star and Bakersfield Californian and the Chicago Sun-Times.
                                                  
Visitors to the Nov. 5 front pages display will also get to visit a temporary exhibit on American election newspaper front pages between 1892 and the present.

Editor & Publisher noted that several papers such as the Chicago papers, USA Today and the Washington Post had single-copy press run increases

Several U.S. newspapers featured dynamic front pages to chronicle Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s historic Democratic presidential nomination. Chicago Sun-Times’ Kevin Allen assembled the following historic front pages:

Editorial in Chicago Tribune about media bias 11/05/2008

An editorial about media bias in the wake of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s 44th president. The author asserts that lack of objectivity on the part of media affected the outcome of the election. “Journalism is truly dead, and the situation may get worse with a liberal Congress, pushing the Fairness Doctrine, and a new administration that has shown a penchant for denying access to those who ask tough questions or have a dissenting opinion,” writes Kevin Brown.