Dear All, Did you know? Newspapers published advertisements on front page! Interesting! Read the article published in THE HINDU ================================= Highlights: Our leap to front page news, half a century ago “Our Front Page,” an editorial published in The Hindu of January 14, 1958, is a fine example of how a great newspaper wins and renews trust by being transparent and communicating openly with its readers, advertisers, and distributors. Today is the anniversary of an editorial breakthrough in the 129-year-old history of The Hindu. It was on January 14, 1958, in its eighth decade of publication, that our newspaper brought news to the front page on a daily basis. Until then, the page was given over to advertisements, in keeping with the worldwide broadsheet tradition. It was not that news never appeared on the front page before the 1958 transformation. A recent discovery by The Hindu’s archivists was that between June 2, 1941 and the big day, news did appear on Page 1 once a week, on Mondays for the most part but for a few intervening years on Sundays instead of Mondays. =============================================== “Our Front Page,” the third editorial published on January 14, 1958 and reproduced here, is a fine example of how a great newspaper wins and renews trust by being transparent and by communicating openly with its readers, advertisers, and distributors. http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/14/stories/2008011451021100.htm ============== Regards sankaran http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/14/stories/2008011451051100.htm --------------------------------- Forgot the famous last words? Access your message archive online. Click here. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.