Inquirer front page made it to world’s Top 10
MANILA, Philippines—The front page of the Philippine Daily Inquirer of Aug. 9, 2013, landed among the world’s Top Ten Front Pages on that day, according to Newseum, a Washington-based interactive center for news and journalism.
The Inquirer’s front page carried a photo of a Muslim mother and child walking past a group of Muslim women celebrating Eid’l Fitr, or the feast of breaking the fast with morning prayers at Rizal Park in Manila. The picture was taken by Inquirer photographer Richard Reyes.
Two other newspapers with photos of Muslims marking the end of Ramadan with morning prayers also made it to Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages the same day. One was the Orange County Register of Santa Ana, California, which carried a photo of Muslim boys and men praying at the Anaheim Convention Center. The other was the Waterloo Region Record of Kitchener, Canada, which had a photo of some of the 2,500 Muslims who gathered for their morning prayers at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium.
As part of its advocacy to educate the public on the news and journalism, the Newseum displays the Top Ten Front Pages at its building in Washington, D.C. The Top Ten are also posted on the Newseum Pinterest board titled ‘Today’s Front Pages.”
Over 800 daily
The Top Ten are selected from over 800 newspaper front pages that are sent to Newseum daily by the newspaper publishers. Newseum also carries all the front pages on its website.
“The selections for the Top Ten are at each of the daily editor’s discretion and may focus on the headline, photos, innovative design or something else that elevates the front page above the rest,” the Newseum said on its website.
Previously, the Nov. 13, 2012, front page of the Philippine Daily Inquirer also landed among that day’s Top Ten Front Pages. The front page featured a photo of a small-scale miner resting at the mouth of a mining tunnel in Itogon, Benguet.
The Newseum is a center dedicated to the history and developments in news and journalism.
It also hosts a Journalists Memorial, a soaring, two-story glass structure bearing the names of reporters, photographers, editors and broadcasters who have died in the line of duty.
The names of more than 130 Filipino journalists—30 of them victims of the Ampatuan massacre of November 2009—are among those enshrined in the memorial.
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