We Need Your Front Pages

To wrap up our election coverage, Poynter.org wants to display newspaper front pages from across the country to give journalists a glimpse of election coverage and design from around the county. We also want our readers to get an idea about the kind of thinking that goes into designing an important page like the presidential election page.

If you would like to be a part of our effort, here's what you need to do:

1. E-mail us at feedback@poynter.org telling us that you will participate. We need to get a good count of what we can expect.
   
2. After your paper goes to bed on election night, send us a PDF (Portable Document Format) of the front page with 1 to 2 paragraphs describing why the page was designed as it was. We would like you to focus specifically on the election content, unless there are other issues more important that you think might help our readers learn.

Or

You can make your page available to us by uploading it to your website as a PDF. Please notify us by email where we can find the document, and don't forget to include your 1- to 2-paragraph description.

We will be at Poynter.org headquarters from about 9 p.m. Nov. 7 and into the next day, so feel free to give us a call at (888) POYNTER.

We look forward to hearing from designers from large and small papers. The more diversity the better and more true the representation will be.

Thank you,

Rochelle Lewis Lavin
News Editor
Poynter.org
The Poynter Institute
rlavin@poynter.org
(727) 821-9494, ext. 318

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Calling All Designers

Poynter.org wants your election pages. We want as many front pages as possible from around the country to display the day after election. All you need to do is send your page and a short write up. We'll do the rest. More details.