By Alan Cowell, NY Times, December 19, 2011
LONDON—The death of Kim Jong-il provoked uncertainty, anxiety and calls for a peaceful succession on Monday as governments within the region and beyond awaited some signal from North Korea about its nuclear intentions and the prospects, if any, for a…
Open Doors USA, Dec. 19, 2011
SANTA ANA, Calif. (Dec. 19, 2011)—On Sunday evening it was announced that Kim Jong-Il, the leader of North Korea, had died. North Korean news agencies reported that Kim Jong-Il had died of fatigue from “overworking to serve the people of North Korea.” Kim Jong-Il was…
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Been a bit quiet here on the cover front. Mainly because
we haven’t done any good ones in a whileI’ve been really busy.There will be many MANY 9/11 covers in the coming weeks and I’m certain that this will not be the best one of that lot. But, I’m a sucker for aerial photography so I’m easily sold on this one.
All credit for the picture goes to Karen Frank - our deputy photography director - who found this Vincent Laforet shot at the last minute. I’m all the more grateful for Karen’s find as I managed to somehow not know what was on the cover until Tuesday lunchtime (and we send the cover on Wednesday morning). I thought we were doing a Rahm Emanuel cover…
Anyway, I’m quite glad we’ve got our 9/11 cover out the way early, with a short (but good) story inside. These are the issues that posturing editors like to make big grand statements with enormous single topic zeitgeist-capturing feature wells - photo essays, first persons, graphics, essays by eminent thinkers, artist commission photography, covers and imagery, crowd sourced content.. the whole shebang. The pressure to perform and make stand-out issues is intense as magazines compete for the imaginary ‘who did the best 9/11 coverage’ awards. I’m already finding it all a bit tiring - so without sounding like a spoil-sport - I feel quite happy to sit this one out and let others mark this momentous occasion.
(NB - And yes yes, the cover owes a debt of inspiration to Mark Farrow’s Spiritualized album cover - 65 Haas Grotesque centered, what could be simpler?)
