Where are all the front-page ads?

Not too long ago, newspaper purists shuddered at publisher plans to begin putting advertising on their front pages. Turns out, they needn’t have worried. In a survey last week of the front pages of all of the U.S. dailies published at Newseum.Org, I found only 17% of the papers actually ran ads on their covers. This may reflect the general dearth of newspaper advertising