Newspaper headlines of Obama election win, Nov. 5 2008

Obama Grabs Headlines - November 5, 2008

[#1 posted by Ghede , November 8, 2008 3:37 PM]

Heehee. Q'hubo makes me laugh. I don't think there is a reference to Obama. They talk about a hitman restaurant in the village though.

[#2 posted by jim , November 8, 2008 3:46 PM]

What are these "newspapers" you speak of?

[#3 posted by nickshulman , November 8, 2008 4:04 PM]

(Journal de) Montreal rep-re-sent!

[#4 posted by zuzu , November 8, 2008 4:39 PM]

JIM is full of WIN!

[#5 posted by slgalt , November 8, 2008 4:48 PM]

Epic Win as headline:
http://www.newseum.org.nyud.net/media/dfp/jpg5/lg/OR_SJ.jpg

[#6 posted by Kay the Complainer , November 8, 2008 4:49 PM]

Hey! The Kingston Whig-Standard! They fired my husband six years ago. Screw them!

[#7 posted by MichaelRN , November 8, 2008 5:00 PM]

I read most of them...all of them, any of them...

[#8 posted by gabrielm , November 8, 2008 5:15 PM]

Poor Newseum - they are getting hit really hard. This is the 3rd time I have seen a round up of Nov 5th covers w/ links to their site.

Personally, I dig the one that was listed on the Art of Obama yesterday . It is from the Maariv, published in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

[#9 posted by Anonymous , November 8, 2008 6:46 PM]

It's really pathetic most of those foreign papers had almost zero mention of the election. They are so ignorant of foreign issues. I think their President whats-his-face should give the media a tuning up.

[#10 posted by MITTZNZ , November 8, 2008 7:28 PM]

#1: I don't think you have the translation quite right. The headline states that a group of people got hit in a restaurant in town. There's still zero mention of Obama, though.

[#11 posted by EH , November 8, 2008 8:15 PM]

Obama's actually kind of punking McCain on that Sun one.

[#12 posted by Boomer , November 8, 2008 8:31 PM]

Didn't seem to be an important story for Stars and Stripes, the U.S. military's newspaper. Two editions, no mention of having a new president.

[#13 posted by takeshi , November 8, 2008 9:25 PM]

My God, it's full of Stars.

[#14 posted by zuvembi , November 8, 2008 9:53 PM]

One of my friends was tireless in her promotion of Obama since the very beginning. I know how much time and energy she put into it, so I thought I'd make her a poster of these.

A quick grep through the source, some time letting wget chug through them, and then using jwz's picturetile work on them, and I'll have a 6000x9000 jpg fit for printing.

I would post some examples, but they're huge and it would crush my bandwidth.

[#15 posted by Anonymous , November 8, 2008 10:26 PM]

@ #9: I didn't look at all of them, but many of them are the front pages just before his election, as the US lags behind the rest of the world. It's not a good representation.

The Australian front pages the day after the ones he displayed (November 6, rather than November 5), at least, were all OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA.

[#16 posted by mcjake , November 8, 2008 10:29 PM]

You know, the real beauty is that one of the papers owned by my newspaper company didn't even have the news in Wednesday's edition. I asked the publisher why he said, "Our readers aren't interested."

[#17 posted by Steve Stair , November 8, 2008 10:44 PM]

I think the best picture of Obama can be found in this paper.

[#18 posted by Alpinwolf , November 9, 2008 12:01 AM]

@17 - What pic of Obama?

*looks again for another 12 minutes*

Nope, still don't see him.

Oh, wait... There he is, a bit left of where I was looking. My bad. Nice cover.

[#19 posted by presterjohn , November 9, 2008 12:06 AM]

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_win_causes_obsessive

[#20 posted by discotechnological , November 9, 2008 12:40 AM]

Did any of them have a picture of McCain looking upset with "Oh, Bummer" as the headline?

[#21 posted by Anonymous , November 9, 2008 3:04 AM]

Hello, I did a video the other day featuring over 700 covers from worlwide newspapers of the day after the elections and put it on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZTQBGaLZE

[#22 posted by druranium , November 9, 2008 5:27 AM]

I hope this will stay up till my kids have kids? cause I didn't get a newspaper on the fifth....

[#23 posted by Talia , November 9, 2008 5:29 AM]

i must say the "did obama buy the election?" ad on the site makes me want to stab someone.

[#24 posted by PaulR , November 9, 2008 7:29 AM]

I don't see the Daily Mirror front page in there. Does anyone have it? I forgot to check their website on the next morning.

Remember their front page from Bush's reelection?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mirror

The letters of outrage to the editor were such fun reading in the week that followed that front page...

[#25 posted by Anonymous , November 9, 2008 7:41 AM]

This is great. Especially that cartoon - it's too is funny.

Thanks!

NJT

[#26 posted by mightymouse1584 , November 9, 2008 9:33 AM]

@22 i suggest you get the adblock and add-art extensions for firefox. then no more ads and a prettier internet!

[#27 posted by Antinous , November 9, 2008 10:21 AM]

Direct link to the Daily Mirror Bush re-election cover.

[#28 posted by fotozilla , November 9, 2008 11:25 AM]

Old news in Texas:

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa081106_mo_terrell.188ec9cfc.html

[#29 posted by minamisan , November 9, 2008 2:00 PM]

simply taking all the front covers from 5 Nov doesn't work. for those of us just west of the Date Line, the election wasn't decided til the afternoon of that day.

[#30 posted by miraglia , November 9, 2008 9:03 PM]

Along the same lines, check out The Front Pages of History, a capture of more than a dozen news websites' front pages reporting the news of Obama's victory.

[#31 posted by luistxo , November 10, 2008 4:00 AM]

Reminds me of the Darkest Page in American History, a poster by the National Press Club in Washington DC, which collected frontpages from around the world 12th september 2001. It can be seen (and purchased) here:
http://commemorativesllc.com/products.htm

There's another mood in the Obama frontpages, of course.

[#32 posted by Cool Products , November 10, 2008 7:30 AM]

I'm just curious, but does the winner of the American presidential election always make headline news in other countries? I know that this certain election was newsworthy and important, but is is always this newsworthy abroad?

[#33 posted by variablizer , November 10, 2008 9:14 AM]

I'm planning on getting this printed for my son's room.

OBAMA POSTER (20 MB PDF, 20" x 30", 200 dpi)

[#34 posted by speculator , November 10, 2008 11:56 AM]

wow the hamilton spectator is the first paper up there.. good job spec

[#35 posted by Anonymous , November 10, 2008 10:42 PM]

Best one I've seen:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/election/

My sense is that by picking Rahm Emmanuel as his chief of staff, he already has...

[#36 posted by speculator , November 11, 2008 6:18 AM]

Alright so technically these front pages aren't in any sort of order. However, in newseum.com's piece on front pages from this day, the hamilton specator's is mentioned 2nd among the notables. (First was the Record, Stockton, Calif.) Also, it's the only Canadian paper listed. Once again, good job spec.

http://www.newseum.org/news/news.aspx?item=tfp_11_5_08&style=f

[#37 posted by ObamaJewelry , November 13, 2008 11:22 PM]

Here's two newspaper headline posters like this collage -- one is a poster of all 50 States, the other is 56 International newspapers announcing Obama is 44 our next president:

http://www.cafepress.com/palinvsjesus

I found it really interesting that Russia seemed to be the only country that didn't run a picture - I looked for hours and never found a Russian paper with a photo. My favorite headline was Indonesia!

[#38 posted by greenface , January 21, 2009 1:12 PM]

http://allnews.greyisgood.eu is a live updating site of every national newspaper...