Front Page Coverage: How The Convention Played on Page One


Day Before
July 17, 2016
(July 18 Newspapers)
 Day One
July 18, 2016
(July 19 Newspapers)		 Day Two
July 19, 2016
(July 20 Newspapers)
 Day Three
July 20, 2016
(July 21 Newspapers)
 Day Four
July 21, 2016
(July 22 Newspapers)
Summary: Most newspapers the day the convention opened (all in this small sample) led with the shooting of police in Baton Rouge.  Some ran stories on the opening of the convention below the fold.

Newspaper
 Headlines/Reporters
Photos/Photographers
New York Times - Late Edition
A11-A16...  6 pages covering although three 1/2 page ads
 "Attack on Officers Jolts a Nation on Edge"
Below the fold:
 • Alexander Burns.  "On Eve of G.O.P. Convention, Law and Order Takes the Floor"
police searching in Baton Rouge
Wall Street Journal
 "Baton Rouge Officers Gunned Down"
Below the fold:
 • Janet Hook.  "Cleveland Set for a Trump Show"
Baton Rouge
(small photo in banner of convention worker amid state signs)
Washington Post
 "3 officers killed in Baton Rouge"
Below the fold:
 • Dan Balz and Scott Clement.  "Poll finds tight race, and dissatisfied public"
 • Marc Fisher.  "Trusting his brain and gut, Trump forgoes heavy reading"
officer and car in Baton Rouge
Below the fold:
Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post.  MW shot of a couple of men working on the stage in the Q.
Chicago Tribune
 "Cops Attacked in Baton Rouge"
Below the fold:
 • Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times.  "Trump's shot at White House really starts now"
police in Baton Rouge
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
 ...Baton Rouge shootings
 • Greg Bluestein.  "A jittery Cleveland prepares for RNC"
police in Baton Rouge