Its pretty rare for a finished front page to look the same way at 11 a.m. as I envision it when we do our daily news budget at 6:30 a.m. Something usually changes.
And if something gets bumped off the front page, its non-local news first.
So you New York Giants fans out there, assuming there are some, can put the conspiracy theories to rest.
There is nothing on the front page today about the Giants improbable Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots on Sunday. Our Sports refer at the top of the page is to the weekend conference wrestling tournaments. Local comes first.
Todays front page has four local stories. A fifth local story in todays edition is on Page A6.
When I completed the news budget this morning, I planned to put a short story on the front page, and perhaps a picture, from the Super Bowl. I even had a headline in mind, something to the effect of Perfect Spoiler. (This goes back to my days in the newspaper business in sports. To this day, it is difficult for me to watch any sporting event even my kids soccer games without thinking of newspaper headlines.)
Anyway, as the morning moved along, the page took shape. We had three local stories with at least one photograph. That takes up space. And we also developed an unplanned story on deadline about what sounds like the impending sale of the BP station on 20th Avenue in Monroe. That story ended up on Page A6, mostly because it was started and completed late in our deadline process.
Page One is a puzzle each day. What stories go where, and when, depends on a number of factors. So, as I said at the beginning, the plan at 6:30 a.m. often changes by 11 a.m., when we are done with the days newspaper.
The number of local photos and local stories today ended up squeezing the Giants win off the front page. Local comes first.
And while it was stripped across the top of the Sports front page, the story from Sundays Super Bowl still didnt get as much play as it probably did in most newspapers today.
Part of that is because by the time most people read todays paper, the Super Bowl will be almost 24 hours old ... and most of you probably watched it or have read about it by then anyway. But mostly the game is downplayed because, you guessed it, local comes first.
And if something gets bumped off the front page, its non-local news first.
So you New York Giants fans out there, assuming there are some, can put the conspiracy theories to rest.
There is nothing on the front page today about the Giants improbable Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots on Sunday. Our Sports refer at the top of the page is to the weekend conference wrestling tournaments. Local comes first.
Todays front page has four local stories. A fifth local story in todays edition is on Page A6.
When I completed the news budget this morning, I planned to put a short story on the front page, and perhaps a picture, from the Super Bowl. I even had a headline in mind, something to the effect of Perfect Spoiler. (This goes back to my days in the newspaper business in sports. To this day, it is difficult for me to watch any sporting event even my kids soccer games without thinking of newspaper headlines.)
Anyway, as the morning moved along, the page took shape. We had three local stories with at least one photograph. That takes up space. And we also developed an unplanned story on deadline about what sounds like the impending sale of the BP station on 20th Avenue in Monroe. That story ended up on Page A6, mostly because it was started and completed late in our deadline process.
Page One is a puzzle each day. What stories go where, and when, depends on a number of factors. So, as I said at the beginning, the plan at 6:30 a.m. often changes by 11 a.m., when we are done with the days newspaper.
The number of local photos and local stories today ended up squeezing the Giants win off the front page. Local comes first.
And while it was stripped across the top of the Sports front page, the story from Sundays Super Bowl still didnt get as much play as it probably did in most newspapers today.
Part of that is because by the time most people read todays paper, the Super Bowl will be almost 24 hours old ... and most of you probably watched it or have read about it by then anyway. But mostly the game is downplayed because, you guessed it, local comes first.
