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Covering the front page of the newspaper

age-dec15.JPGCheck out the front page of the two copies of yesterday’s edition of The Age newspaper from in the photo.  One is a newspaper as I’d expect it to be.  The other is an ad with a half a front cover showing.

Which cover sells the newspaper?  I reckon it’s the one showing the front cover without the advertising cover-up.

I feel for the journalists and editorial people who are now having their work covered up in this way.

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  1. Blake

    While I do agree on principle it is wrong for a newspaper front page to be covered like this – Have you done any research into how many walk ins do you get that buy the paper for this anyway?

    As in: How many newspaper sales do you get from customers (who don’t buy the paper regularly/daily) who walked into the store to buy something that wasn’t a newspaper, that end up buying it because of the cover story?

    Is that even possible to track?

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  2. Mark

    Blake, while I don;t have the numbers, newspaper publishers require newspapers to be displayed full face because they say the cover sells the paper.

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  3. Wendy

    The covered headline says it all … ps Broken. Bwahaha

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  4. Aaron

    First picture reads to me as
    Monash University. PS Broken

    ‘Where will your choices take you?’
    -The army.

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