Today’s front page of the day actually comes from Sunday, when most newspapers offer pretty great front pages. Merry Eccles designed this front for The (Staunton, Virginia) News Leader, which led with the hunt for Sasquatch.
“We’re in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, and we have national forests, several of them surrounding us,” said William Ramsey, news director at the News Leader. And photojournalist Mike Tripp is interested in groups that have less traditional outdoor pursuits. So when he learned about a group called the East Coast Bigfoot Research Organization, he took writer Laura Peters along to find out more.
“We’ve had some fairly serious hard news Sunday covers lately,” Ramsey said, “and we like to have fun every now and then, so they went out on a couple of hunts.”
They approached the story, images and videos straight, he said, and thinks the audience gets it and brings an open mind to stories like this one.
“It’s less about the myth and more about the people who spend time doing it,” Ramsey said.
So far, the biggest negative reaction they’ve heard came from a secondary story on the page, which came from The Washington Post. It was about cow burps.
