John Quinlan Front Page Editor

Our goal on both days was to capture the enormity of the event without straying into tabloid territory. Thus, the main headlines and art are large, but we were careful to use several varied stories on each front, rather than just one or even none. On the anniversary page, we opted for a hard-news approach, given the alert in Washington and the developments on Iraq, and we strove to keep our Canadian perspective. So, while the Gettysburg story is very American, we also used a feature about grieving Canadians and selected a photo that struck an emotional chord without waving the stars and stripes.

Monica Moses Visual Journalism Faculty The Poynter Institute

It's interesting to think of a Canadian paper as the foreign press. But there is a little of the foreign in this packed front page. There isn't an excess of emotional content in this front; the terrorist attacks happened to Americans, not to Canadians. They are just breathing our second-hand smoke. So the front page reflects concerns about the state of the economy, travel and the Middle East in the aftermath of the attacks. You can see the distance between the U.S. and the rest of the world in this survey of analysis and news.