Obama Election Front Pages
Tuesday’s election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States was historic on a number of levels, and newspapers worldwide reflected that on their front pages. Here are a few collections of front pages from around the nation and the globe, from the reverent to the raucous. Great stuff.
Election ’08 Page 1 Collections
Amazon (Thanks, Tony Seton!)
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies collection
The Chicago Tribune collection
The VisualEditors.com collection
It isn't just the national elections. We had hotly contested local elections and people were lined up to buy the paper and get the details.
ReplyDeleteWe had a couple who have been subscribers for several decades drive by the office looking for a copy of the Tulsa World. Every box in town was sold out. We're not sentimental, so we gave them our office copy because we were finished and had a copy at home.
This is a great reminder of why there IS a future for the printed world.
John M. Wylie II, Editor and Publisher
Oologah (Okla.) Lake Leader