Wrong Clinton: Hillary bags Democratic nomination but fails to make front page of newspapers

Hillary Clinton may have made history by clinching the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, but she had a tough time making it to the front page of newspapers in the US. 

Several leading newspapers of the country, including the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, featured the photo of her husband, former president Bill Clinton, alongside news of her clinching the party's nomination.

Several readers did not take to this kindly, criticising the publications on Twitter for the photo choice and calling it out their sexism in erasing Hillary from front page news.

Hillary clinched a historic nomination. So why does her husband get the front page photo?https://t.co/gW2J9v4NOX pic.twitter.com/ssYP9ZKYPM

— kelsey mckinney (@mckinneykelsey) July 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton just won a presidential nomination. These newspapers ran front-page photos of her husband. https://t.co/jIBj7clCkf

— Jennifer Ouellette (@JenLucPiquant) July 27, 2016

simple proof of enduring sexism: no Hillary, or even a woman, on the front page after 1st woman nominated president pic.twitter.com/FvkxDfOAJK

— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) July 27, 2016

Big picture of Bill Clinton on the front of the Washington Post in honor of his historic night, I guess https://t.co/koRZesTFi3

— Kate Zwaard (@kzwa) July 27, 2016

Wow, congratulations to Bill Clinton on being the first man to let his wife run for President, or so newspaper front pages seem to suggest.

— Gibson Twist (@GibsonTwist) July 27, 2016

Like almost every other newspaper this morning, @ReadingEagle seems to have mistaken Bill Clinton as the Democratic nominee.

— Draug (@Draug419) July 27, 2016

This is what the front pages of the newspapers looked like:

Wall Street Journal

At some point overnight @WSJ decided "Hillary Clinton Wins Nomination" headline needed a picture of Hillary. #picks pic.twitter.com/uBiZiIIQte

— Pat Kiernan (@patkiernan) July 27, 2016

@patkiernan pic.twitter.com/i3NNQBRJVS

— Amber Kanwar (@amberkanwar) July 27, 2016

Washington Post

Chicago Tribune

.@ChicagoTribune also had the wrong Clinton problem on its front page. pic.twitter.com/YTobzLKVP8

— Pat Kiernan (@patkiernan) July 27, 2016

New York Times

The top of the front page of The New York Times for July 27, 2016 pic.twitter.com/1XE4NICI8N

— Linda Newmai (@lindanewmai) July 27, 2016

San Francisco Chronicle

Houston Chronicle

The front page coverage is ironic considering Hillary broke one of the biggest glass ceilings, quite literally if you go by the announcement of her nomination.

We just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet.” —Hillary https://t.co/mYkaLIv861

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 27, 2016

There were some, however, who did manage to get it right:

USA Today

Sydney Morning Herald

@annehelen I mean, if the foreign papers could figure it out... pic.twitter.com/6LYnWx6umU

— Josephine Tovey (@Jo_Tovey) July 27, 2016

For more comprehensive lists of front page news coverage, read here and here.