3) No reproduction of the cartoons but publication of an AFP or a Reuters photography of Jyllands-Posten page or France-Soir page (Dagens Nyheter in Sweden or Japan Times). As a variant the editor can also decide to flout or to blacken the image (Le Journal Hebdomadaire in Morocco).

4)Reproduction of one drawing but not the others: often the Prophet with the bomb-shaped turban. For instance the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Germany.

5) Reproduction of some drawings, two to six. For instance Trouw in the Netherlands.

6) Reproduction of all the 12 Jyllands-Posten drawings. It is a strong political sign as in Magazinet (Norway), the weekly newspaper that relaunched the controversy in January 2006.

7) Reproduction of the Danish postings + special new drawings portraying the Prophet. Still stronger as effect: for instance in France-Soir, Le Monde and Charlie-Hebdo in France

At this point, you think that there is no more way to cover and illustrate the cartoon controversy. But you are wrong, there are four other ways:

8) Some newspapers refused to republish the Danish cartoons but considered that they must publish their own cartoon to show their support to a form of freedom of expression campaign: Akron Beacon Journal, The Billings Outpost in the US, Le Temps in Switzerland, Le Soir, La Libre Belgique in Belgium asked their own cartoonist and El Pais re-published the Plantu cartoon from Le Monde!

9) Another possibility was to create its own cartoon contest. A small Swedish extremist website did that (in parallel with Hamshahri, the Iranian newspaper that wanted to create a contest about the Holocaust in order to ask the republication of the cartoons by the Western press)

10) There was the possibility to print the cartoons in a regional edition, but not in the national edition! So did the Times of India in its Patna edition! But here I think the TOI resident editor will not last a long time in this position...

11) Don't forget this particular way to present the cartoons: first you publish them, secondly you apologize. Apologises from Jyllands-Posten are now well-known (and sometimes invented as in Saudia Arabia), but it happened in New-Zealand too or in Poland.

12) Impossible to finish this list with the most tragic solution: you publish and then you close the newspaper... It happened three times in Yemen and in Algeria, two times in Russia.

This short analysis shows that there were many solutions for managing the issue and that the imagination of editors-in-chief was almost without limits! The complexity is even more important if you consider the newspapers that put one or several drawings on their cover page (Al Fager in Egypt, France-Soir...) and the other newspapers with simply the reproduction in internal pages.

Source: Editors Weblog