You're a newspaper editor. There's been a massacre in Texas. But there are no front-page sized images of the shooter! What do you do? To the front pages!

The only image of Nidal Hasan available (until the shoe-leather journalists hit the streets, harass his friends and family, and get something better) is tiny and black and white. So the three broadsheets go with photojournalistic depictions of the horror on the army base. The Daily News runs a stark black front page with the small picture in the corner. The Post, at least in the editions available online goes with... baseball.

In most of the papers Hasan is a troubled Army psychiatrist, possibly suffering from PTSD after hearing the harrowing tales of returning soldiers. In the Post he's an 'Army Muslim Major'.

Oh, and there are other stories too, doubtless cut at the last minute when the shooting news broke. Palestinian politics! Gruesomeness in Cleveland! Healthcare! Baseball!

The New York Times: has perhaps the best analysis of the shooter and his motivations. They also seem to have got to his cousin - the one family member who is happy to talk to anyone who asks - first. Their straight news story also devotes some time to the three other soldiers held in connection with the shootings. They also cover former Police Chief Bernie Kerik's guilty plea and expected prison term, the potentially destabilising news that Mahmoud Abbas will not seek re-election in Palestine, a dreadful tale of 11 bodies - hidden by a murderous sex offender - found in a house in Ohio. Oh, and the Afghan army is inept.

The Washington Post: mentions the shooter's local connection - to Walter Reed hospital, and repeats the claim that deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan was Hasan's "worst nightmare." They also have some original reporting - an interview with Hasan's aunt and a fellow psychiatrist - that shows what we'd lose if newsrooms shrink, I think. There's politics in the form of a healthcare infighting tale and the story about Congress extending jobless benefits.

The LA Times: above the main story is a crop of a picture the NY Times is running on their website too. I always think it's amazing how a consensus between disconnected editors emerges when there's one story. Consensus is the word here - they effectively round up the strands (PTSD, Islam, suicide bombing sympathising) seen elsewhere. There's a great detail in this story about a hedge fund scandal - one trader tried to eat his phone's sim card to hide evidence. There's a new sheriff in town on the Mexican border, the wranglings over Afghanistan get play here too, and there is optimism over the health bill.

The New York Post: once you get beyond the baseball, adds the somewhat poignant detail that Nidal Hasan had trouble finding love. The News has more though...

The Daily News: interviews Hasan's former Imam who says the shooter wanted a wife far more religious than himself. One who prayed five times a day, in fact. They have the best reporter (IMO) in New York - Kerry Burke - on the story, so expect more detail and mini-scoops to come from the News.

The Austin American_Statesman: when a big story breaks in your backyard you want to be on top of it. There's some good local reporting here.

The Times (London): want a depressing fact? The world is so inured to massacres in America that today's Times, in London, devotes all of two square inches to it.