News-Press featured in Newseum exhibit

Work follows him everywhere - Ray Scherer poses next to the News-Press on display in the Newseum.

While in Washington, D.C. with his brother on July 29, St. Joseph News-Press Reporter Ray Scherer was pleasantly surprised to see that day’s front page of the News-Press hanging in the Newseum.

The Newseum, as is implied by its name, is an interactive museum of news spanning five centuries of news history and gives visitors a behind-the-scenes look at how and why news is made.  Many people also know it as the home of the Sunday morning broadcast of ABC News’ “This Week.”

The Newseum receives approximately 800 front pages each day from newspapers around the world, which are all posted on the museum’s website (newseum.org).  Out of those, about one-tenth of them are selected each day to be printed and displayed in exhibits inside and outside the museum.  The day Scherer toured the Newseum happened to be a day when the front page of the News-Press was chosen.

Copy Editor and Page Designer Ashley Bally designed the July 29th front page.  News that day featured a large map, created by Graphics Editor George Stanton, of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Summer Training Camp in St. Joseph, Mo. and articles about the heat at training camp, a tip about protecting your skin at Camp, the cause of a fire that took the lives of two people and a “Life Story” about a WWII veteran.  Other News-Press staffers contributing to the articles were Todd Fuller, Kristen Hoppa, Alonzo Weston and Paul Branson, with photos by Eric Keith and Valerie Mosley.