Updated Monday, September 28, at 12:31 EST
TAKEAWAY: The day after the general German elections, we are in Berlin and show you how some of the local newspapers covered Angela Merkel’s victory. PLUS: Pure Design download: Head shots, always a favorite with readers.
Angela Merkel’s triumphant day
Note: I am interested in getting pdfs of other German newspapers and how they have covered the day after the election. Send me pdfs to mario@garcia-media.com
Welt Kompakt had fun with its front page today: the tab edition of Die Welt went with a funny caricature that means much to German readers: headline reads Germany is now black and yellow.
Traditionally, black represents the conservative party (CDU), while yellow represents the liberals (FDP)
Andreas Krebs, of Düsseldorf’s Rheinische Post , contributes the 8-page election special coverage his newspaper published today; we choose three here
Front page of Die Welt : editor’s commentary on this page gives the package its strength
Front page of today’s Berliner Morgenpost: quick at a glance view of how each party performed in yesterday’s national election
It is a poster page 2 for the Berliner Morgenpost showing a radiant smile (unusual) from triumphant Angel Markel; to the left, a series of quotes from political leaders
A back page full graphic offers details of how Germans voted
Sunday, the day of the elections, the Berliner Morgenpost opted for “tag clouds” of the election manifestos of the big
German parties on Page One, depicting the main issues voters brought to the polls: unemployment, economic crisis, the environment, Germany’s standing in the world.
Front page of the tabloid daily, BZ
Waking up in Berlin this Monday morning, day after the general German elections, and one sees the image of Chancellor Angela Merkel, dressed in red jacket, smiling and telling her supporters that she does not wish to spoil their party, but that there is plenty of work ahead.
Chancellor Merkel is returning to office, and this time with her preferred coalition partner, the pro-business Free Democrats. The Social Democratic Party, which now looks set to go into opposition,suffered a major setback.
I found it interesting to be here in Berlin yesterday during the election.
It was a radiant, sunny and warm summer day—-perhaps the last such weather for this part of the world for a long time, as fall made an appearance today with cooler temperatures as commuters went about their business. I took the U2 train and one could already see workers removing the political posters around the train station. The Germans do things orderly and promptly. At the same time, one could not even guess that there was a general election going on yesterday.
Here I present to you some of the coverage of the election by German newspapers, the morning after.
Head shots: we love them
It;s no secret: you put a headshot to go with that story and it commands more attention, draws additional readers to the text and enhances the package.
However, you don’t need to blow up a headshot out of proportion. A small image, closely cropped, will do the job.
WAN/IFRA conference in Prague
I am honored to be one of the speakers this week at the WAN/IFRA conference, The 2015 Newsroom: High Standards with Low-Cost Solutions, in Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 1-2.
I will keynote a segment of the conference titled “Visual journalism: the rise of non-narrative news”., a discussion about the industry today, the importance of convergence as a state of mind in the newsroom, and case studies of recent projects dealing with print/online/mobile.
For more information: http://www.wan-press.org/article18218.html
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