September 11, 2001
Subtitle: [a collection of newspaper front pages selected by The Poynter Institute]
By: The Poynter Institute with an introduction by Max Frankel.
Contributors: Frankel, Max.; Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel; Andrews McMeel Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Kansas City, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Sources.; American newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc -- Front pages -- Facsimiles.
Genres: Sources.; Facsimiles.
Description: For each of us, there are occasions - a wedding, a child's birth, a family tragedy - so compelling that details are forever etched in memory. Few events define all of us. September 11, 2001, did. We all gaped, horrified, as the second passenger plane collided with the second tower. We all watched the wedge of destruction carved into the Pentagon. We all peered into the desolate crater on a field in Pennsylvania. We all looked eagerly for more ghostly survivors to trudge, holding one another, out of the concrete soot that clouded the remains of collapsed twin towers. Not since the assassination of John F. Kennedy has one event so transfixed a nation, a world. The Poynter Institute, a school that teaches skills and ethics to professional journalists in St. Petersburg, Florida, had no plan to memorialize these frozen moments in time. The school merely posted a notice on its Web site inviting news editors who design front pages to send us an electronic copy of how they told this urgent story. Within a day, hundreds of front pages were recorded on the Web site. And all over the world people were turning to the school as another place to connect themselves to the record of these terrible events, and thus to one another.
Notes: Subtitle from cover.