This recreation of a fictional newspaper in the late 1800s, The Boston Times, was a collaborative effort among students in a Masters of Journalism course. While previous groups had kept the black and white news theme, I had decided to design the newspaper as if the viewer had uncovered it from archived material. All text content was contributed by group members based on news events and the ads and pictures were used from archived material available to MAJ students. Text was contributed by group members and written to echo the attitudes of the time. The concept was designed by me. Final copyedits were also done by myself (some edits were skipped, again to mimic the lack of grammatical standards among news writers at the time)
Fonts used:
Headers: Old Press Regular (Courtesy of dafont.com)
Body: Century Schoolbook Regular
Other: Lucida Blackletter
The biggest news in the 1870s Boston was a massive fire that engulfed the city.
Contributors:
Jacquelin Chatterpaul (News Briefs)
Alley Wilson (front page)
All content edited by:
Cortney Cook
If you can believe it, Infidelity in the late 1800s was considered an epidemic and gossip was considered politics (not too much has changed since...) The mediums ad seemed to fit well with the overall theme of the tone of this centrefold spread.
Contributor
Tahirih Foroozan
Alley Wilson
Jacquelin Chatterpaul
All content edited by:
Cortney Cook
In a time before the Red Sox, if there ever was a sports section in the 1800s there weren't many sports to report.
Contributor
Sindhu Dharmarajah
All content edited by:
Cortney Cook
These larger features illustrate issues of great friction at the time: freedom from slavery? women in med school? A big deal especially for the burgeoning news business
Contributors:
Kerrone McWhinney
Shruti Shekar
Jacquelin Chatterpaul
All content edited by:
Cortney Cook
Back pages were mostly saved for obits and ads. I'm still quite entertained by the fact that toothache was thought to be cured by cocaine. Maybe Rob ford wasn't in a drunken stupor...
Overall, I enjoyed working on this project with my classmates. Even with my wobbling abilities in InDesign and Photoshop, I was able to create something I would be proud of. No doubt, there's much I have to learn still.
