We are seeing banners running across the front pages of newspapers that take such a move rather seriously, as in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The impeachment inquiry about President Trump is displayed big and horizontally across the front pages. In the 3rd edition of my book, Contemporary Newspaper Design, in 1993, I wrote that HIERARCHY is key to send a signal to readers that a particular story is mega important, and not just an ordinary one.
In that book, I also used an illustration of The Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the first to carry a big banner for a major story, in 1937, as we see here:
How those banners look today
Let’s take a look at how these newspapers are playing up the news of the impeachment inquiry:
Then, there is the tabloid treatment of the story, like only the New York Post can do:
And the magazines….
TIME paints President Trump in an orange corner!
The New Yorker displays one of its fantastic and iconic illustrations on the cover:
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