Do you have an example you're emulating that you can point out? Googling "latex fax cover sheet" found this page with a plain TeX template but I'm not sure if the template classifies as "rather nice."
This might be a good application of ConTeXt here.
\typein asks for input on run. While running the unmodified file, you'd get the following question:
Enter file names to process, (chap1,chap2 ...), or `all' to process all files:
\files=
At this point you'd have to enter all to include all files.
If you always want to include all files, replace this:
\typein [\files]{Enter file names to process, (chap1,chap2 ...), or `all' to process all files:}
with this:
\def\files{all}
This way you can always change the included files by changing the definition. It for some reason you'll never do that you can remove (or comment out) this part entirely:
\typein [\files]{Enter file names to process, (chap1,chap2 ...), or `all' to process all files:}
\def\all{all}
\ifx\files\all \typeout{Including all files.} \else \typeout{Including only \files.} \includeonly{\files} \fi
Best Answer
LaTeX isn't very good in typesetting newspaperlike pages. Maybe some day LuaTeX will offer things like a given layout into which the text »flows«.
But however, to make a page look like the one you printed above, I can offer a kind of structure. You can make it prettier in a million ways, but at least it shows a possible way to go:
Looks like this:
E D I T:
I could not resist to play around, the result is probably even less convincing, but it was fun!
\pdfcatalog{/ViewerPreferences<>}
Well: