You know the big news:
In a surprisingly strong move, the Federal Reserve unanimously voted to cut its overnight interest rate target by a half percentage point to 4.75% Tuesday, citing turmoil in financial markets as a threat to economic growth.
And here you have how a few U.S. newspapers presented the news.
The most striking thing for me is that only a few papers did something dramatic.
That said, some of them did it very well with strong graphics and, more important, with what’s next, why, and what it means to you stories.
Well done! And shame to the 99% that were, as usual, sleeping.
This quality popular tabloid from California has excellent poster front pages.
And the headlines are quite good.
The Wall Street Journal, surprise!, goes soft and calm with a sober chart that doesn’t explain too much.
The Record’s graphic approach was very different and asked an excellent question: Are there more cuts to come?
The same graphic idea but with a full package of what’s next journalism.
Brilliant!
A less dramatic presentation but a meaningful one from North Carolina.
The New York Times did a “sushi graphic” that works and headlines for interesting analysis pieces.
The European newspapers couldn’t elaborate too much but at least the Financial Times in Germany did a good job with this well-planned in advance graphic panel that only needed to add the percent of the final cut.
