This Is What Newspapers Would Look Like If They Covered Stories People Care About Most

What If Newspaper Front Pages All Looked Like This?
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What would newspapers look like if, instead of designing the front pages based on the editor's choice, they were designed based on the readers' choice?

NewsWhip, a news aggregation and sharing platform, decided to do an experiment to see "what happens when the readers choose the front page story."

The company looked at the front page stories of some of the top newspapers around the world on Wednesday, and compared them to the stories that were most popular for each newspaper on social media. They then recreated those front pages with new headlines and pictures to reflect the day's most shared stories.

For example, it turns out that Washington Post readers are much more interested in same-sex marriage than a story on injured US troops. Moreover, the Guardian's story about unhealthy diets was the top shared story on the outlet's social media platforms, not their featured story on Putin and Obama handling the crisis in Ukraine.

We've shared some of the new "people powered" front pages below (some of them might get you thinking):

The Washington Post:

The New York Times:

The New York Post:

The Wall Street Journal:

The Guardian:

USA Today:

(h/t: Politico)

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25 Biggest U.S. Newspapers In 2012
#25: Atlanta Journal-Constitution(01 of25)
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Total average circulation: 231,094
#24: Boston Globe(02 of25)
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Total average circulation: 245,572
#23: San Diego Union-Tribune(03 of25)
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Total average circulation: 250,678
#22: Las Vegas Review-Journal(04 of25)
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Total average circulation: 252,047
#21: Honolulu Star-Advertiser(05 of25)
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Total average circulation: 268,244
#20: Arizona Republic(06 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 293,640
#19: Minneapolis Star-Tribune(07 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 301,345
#18: Philadelphia Inquirer(08 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 306,831
#17: Cleveland Plain Dealer(09 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 311,605
#16: Tampa Bay Times(10 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 340,260
#15: Newark Star-Ledger(11 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 340,778
#14: Orange County Register(12 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 356,165
#13: Houston Chronicle(13 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 360,251
#12: Newsday(14 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 377,744
#11: Dallas Morning News(15 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 409,265
#10: Chicago Tribune(16 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 414,930
#9: Denver Post(17 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 416,676
#8: Chicago Sun-Times(18 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 470,548
#7: Washington Post(19 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 474,767
#6: New York Post(20 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 500,521
#5: New York Daily News(21 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 516,165
#4: Los Angeles Times(22 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 653,868
#3: USA Today(23 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 1,674,306
#2: New York Times(24 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 1,865,318
#1: Wall Street Journal(25 of25)
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Total Average Circulation: 2,378,827