Behind the scenes of our Nicolás Maduro front page: The New York Times

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Josh Crutchmer, the planning editor for the print New York Times, woke up at around 5:30 Saturday morning to an alert on his phone: The United States had attacked Venezuela and captured the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.

“I knew that we would be completely scrapping our previous front page plan and starting from scratch,” said Mr. Crutchmer, who has been designing the front page of print editions since 2017.

He emailed 10 editors who work in The Times’s Print Hub, the team of editors and designers who select articles for the daily newspaper, design the layout and get various editions to the printers on time.

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