i love this concept. not so sure about the type. It is very similar to our newspaper masthead, which if we went for ... i'd just use the masthead. I'd love to see a couple of different type treatments. Thanks for the entry. Great conceptual work.
Any chance of seeing a version of your top-ranked logo with some detail that might make it a little more noticeable that those are papers around the star? Headlines, or something. Just an idea.