Missourian Cover Stories

     I know I blogged about the Missourian redesign a couple weeks ago, but I'd really like to know what everyone thinks (specifically about the cover stories) after seeing it for a couple weeks. We've been talking about it in our newspaper design critiques and I'd like to know what everyone else thinks. 

     The goal of the cover story on the daily Missourian is to get the story a few days ahead of time and really take time to come up with a conceptual design to tell the story...to have more than just a lead photo and some text. The goal is to be able to sit down and really brainstorm on what the best way is to tell the story...is it with photos...illustrations...typography...etc. All of us work with this every day. Content driven design!!

     How well do you all think the Missourian, and we the designers, are handling this?