Paper Monitor
12:46 UK time, Wednesday, 13 December 2006
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The story dominating all the papers is the murder of prostitutes in Ipswich. This isn鈥檛 easy for the newspapers, when the unhappy tale is still unfolding and when every overnight headline could be rendered obsolete by subsequent developments.
How can the papers tackle the story that everyone is talking about without looking out of date? The Guardian has a double approach. On the front page, rather than a straight news story, it opts for a colour piece, conveying the atmosphere, catching the sense of foreboding.
And to keep the story moving, and to provide the in-depth detail, it鈥檚 relying much more on the paper鈥檚 online edition. There鈥檚 an interactive guide, combining photos, graphics and text, in a way that suggests that this story marks another watershed in how newspapers cover such rolling stories.
Elsewhere, the Daily Express is in Diana-mode (again), with pages of coverage questioning the presumed findings of Lord Stevens鈥檚 report into her death. Even the cartoon is about the Diana memorial concert.
The Times, meanwhile, has a story of good fortune and success鈥 that will have everyone else feeling sicker than an office party hangover. Employees of bankers Goldman Sachs are sharing out a huge bonus - on average 拢319,000 a person. Senior executives can expect to collect 拢10 million each - and across the City of London, bonuses are expected to total 拢8.8 billion. As the Times observes, staff are now divided into the 鈥渉aves and have yachts鈥.
Back to work everybody. We鈥檝e got to keep those bankers in bonuses.
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