August 21, 2017

The total solar eclipse will cross the United States today, and journalists are planning to cover it pretty much every way possible: live, with weather cams and farm animals. Here’s a quick look at front pages from newsrooms in the path of the totality. Most of these are via Newseum, and a few are submitted:

Albany (Oregon) Democrat-Herald:

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Idaho Falls, Idaho is in the path, but the Post Register publishes six days a week, and today’s the off day. Here’s Sunday’s front:

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Casper (Wyoming) Star Tribune:

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St. Joseph (Missouri) News-Press:

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The Kansas City (Missouri) Star:
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St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch:

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Bowling Green, Kentucky is in the path, but the Bowling Green Daily News is an afternoon paper. I’ll add that front page once it’s published.

The (Nashville) Tennessean:

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The (Columbia, South Carolina) State:

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Here are some other fronts from the big day:

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