Readership Institute: Excellence in Small Newspapers: Galleries: Daily Camera

Daily Camera (Boulder, CO): Image 2

Among the strengths of the newspaper is the mix of stories, topics and writing approaches on the section fronts. On this day, the front page carried four main stories: faculty and staff cuts, along with tuition increases at the local University of Colorado campus; fans-eye views of the retirement of Colorado Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy (a story the newspaper broke the previous day); a news service health piece on the link between hormone replacement therapy and dementia in older women; and a story about a local radio station inundated with calls because it has the same telephone numbers God used to page Jim Carrey's character in the film Bruce Almighty.

A Sunday front page featured five stories: the discovery of remains of a missing child; growing questions about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein before the American invasion; how people and the land have recovered almost a year after nine days of wild fires; a health story about the rapid increase in diabetes; and a story about better parenting for young fathers. In both front-page cases, the newspaper used narrative or a feature-style approach to telling a story, as well as straight-up news reporting. Note the same-day and upcoming content promotions on both front pages.

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