From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmake the papers/headlines/front page etcmake the papers/headlines/front page etcNEWSto be interesting or important enough to be printed in a newspaper, reported on television etc News of their divorce made the headlines. → make
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make the papers/headlines/front page etc• And the story made the front pages.• Print reporters know their stories stand a better chance of making the front page.• Not surprisingly, the story made the front page of the New York Times and many other papers. 