Hurray for Paste BN: Your weekend must reads📰
Forty years! Not bad for a "McPaper."
Good morning, friends of The Short List! 🔵Paste BN celebrated a big milestone this week: The 40th anniversary of our very first edition on Sept. 15, 1982. (Fun fact: I'm John Riley, and I've been at Paste BN for 32 of those 40 years. Yikes! 👴)
At its outset, Paste BN was a newspaper like no other. Short sentences. A full-page weather map. Snappy graphics. The front page often included a bit of fluff to go with the serious stuff. Such brevity and levity led critics to brand us "McPaper" – but they quietly adopted our innovations for their own papers.🤔
- A newspaper's evolution: Now in its 40th year, Paste BN's print edition has changed by design
As editors flipped through 480 months of news since the first edition in 1982, they were struck by how often Paste BN made a difference. As part of our commemoration this week, we've republished many of these significant moments. We hope you enjoy looking back at them. And, as always, thank you for supporting Paste BN.🙏
From the archives
- Aug. 3, 1990: Saddam Hussein's ruthless reach for power
- Oct. 16, 1991: The Clarence Thomas vote: What Senators said
- June 7, 1994: On 50th anniversary of D-Day, veterans cry for dead and themselves
- Aug. 4, 2000: Explorers discover fragrant relic of the sea
- Sept. 11, 2002: 'Clear the skies': Behind the unprecedented call to stop air travel on 9/11
- July 6, 2005: Eric Rudolph tells how he eluded the FBI
- May 11, 2006: NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
- Jan. 2, 2014: Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan and "The Whack Heard 'Round The World"
- Sept. 20, 2017: "Build the Wall." We explored every foot of it – and won the Pulitzer Prize
- Aug. 21, 2019: Thousands of Africans were enslaved in America. Wanda Tucker believes her relatives were the first
There are more great reads below. 👇 Here's to the next 40 years!