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Today’s Papers, Visual Edition: Michelle Gets Top Billing

Screenshot of the Wall Street Journal’s Wednesday front page.

As you’ll see from the screenshots below, many newspapers around the country chose Michelle Obama for their front pages this morning after her well-received speech at the Democratic National Convention last night.

Still, it wasn’t a clean sweep for the first lady. Fellow DNC speakers like former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro managed to take the honors in their home markets, and Obama shared the prime above-the-fold real estate with a handful of non-political stories in several other papers.

Here’s a sampling from some key markets: