: printed on the front page of a newspaper
also
: very newsworthy
front-paged; front-paging; front-pages
: to print or report on the front page
Examples of front-page in a Sentence
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Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Your front-page story on the Sportsmen’s Lodge development (April 4) says there will be 78 units reserved for very-low income out of the 520 total apts.
—Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2024
Only God Was Above Us takes its title from a front-page New York Daily News headline quoting the panicked survivor of Aloha Airlines Flight 243.
—E.r. Pulgar, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2024
In 1984, Susan Faludi, then a twentysomething reporter a few years out from becoming a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, wrote a front-page story about gay hustlers for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
—Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024
Weeks later, the New York Times published a front-page story reporting that many African Americans agreed with Jackson.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
Also, the two who work for newspapers are more concerned with front-page placement in print than page views or social media plans, which is just adorable.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
In response to the front-page article Jan. 28 about marijuana, its use and sales, the article omitted water issues.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
The three-day event, held in Lake Como, Italy, in July 2023, featured a custom newspaper with a front-page headline announcing the couple’s nuptials, candles hand-painted with the names of their guests, sweatshirts embroidered with their personalized logo and more.
—Rachel Simon, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
Scott Talley, Freep.com, 19 Mar. 2023
In November of that year, a front-page New York Times article was instrumental in bringing awareness of deep learning technology to the broader public sphere.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
On Thursday, so many years later, Japan got itself more front-page baseball news.
—Stephen Wade, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2023
The Padres certainly have become an everyday story this spring, but three front-page-worthy headlines on the same day?
—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
On July 14, 1944, The Washington Post published a front-page article about the event.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
Her first front-page story from Japan was about the middle-aged dissolution of a beloved boy band.
—Claire Moses, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
Whitaker notes that later that summer, Carmichael attracted the attention of President Lyndon Johnson after a New York Times front-page story linked him to another SNCC organizer’s anti-White sentiments.
—Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
Adjective
But the scandal was not front-page news, nor did most of the public comprehend the scope of the issue.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Your front-page story on the Sportsmen’s Lodge development (April 4) says there will be 78 units reserved for very-low income out of the 520 total apts.
—Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2024
Only God Was Above Us takes its title from a front-page New York Daily News headline quoting the panicked survivor of Aloha Airlines Flight 243.
—E.r. Pulgar, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2024
In 1984, Susan Faludi, then a twentysomething reporter a few years out from becoming a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, wrote a front-page story about gay hustlers for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
—Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024
Weeks later, the New York Times published a front-page story reporting that many African Americans agreed with Jackson.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
Also, the two who work for newspapers are more concerned with front-page placement in print than page views or social media plans, which is just adorable.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
In response to the front-page article Jan. 28 about marijuana, its use and sales, the article omitted water issues.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
The three-day event, held in Lake Como, Italy, in July 2023, featured a custom newspaper with a front-page headline announcing the couple’s nuptials, candles hand-painted with the names of their guests, sweatshirts embroidered with their personalized logo and more.
—Rachel Simon, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
Verb
And that would lead to a front-page story about the then-Karen Farmer in the Dec. 28, 1977, edition of the New York Times.
—Scott Talley, Freep.com, 19 Mar. 2023
In November of that year, a front-page New York Times article was instrumental in bringing awareness of deep learning technology to the broader public sphere.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
On Thursday, so many years later, Japan got itself more front-page baseball news.
—Stephen Wade, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2023
The Padres certainly have become an everyday story this spring, but three front-page-worthy headlines on the same day?
—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
On July 14, 1944, The Washington Post published a front-page article about the event.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
Her first front-page story from Japan was about the middle-aged dissolution of a beloved boy band.
—Claire Moses, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
Whitaker notes that later that summer, Carmichael attracted the attention of President Lyndon Johnson after a New York Times front-page story linked him to another SNCC organizer’s anti-White sentiments.
—Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
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