One of the great advantages the Internet gives journalists and newshounds is the ability to read thousands of newspapers (or dozens, depending on how much free time you have). In addition to reading the online versions of newspapers, here are a few free ways to scan newspapers from around the world.
Slate’s excellent Today’s Papers feature offers a daily look at what’s on the front pages of the largest U.S. newspapers. The Web page and the daily e-mail are good ways to stay on top of how the biggest stories are being covered.
Other Slate features that will help you get quick overviews of what the media are covering include the site’s International Papers, In Other Magazines and Today’s Blogs features.
Another site worth scanning regularly is the Today’s Front Pages feature of the Newseum (“The world’s first interactive museum of news”).
Every day, the site publishes hundreds of newspaper front page images from dozens of countries around the world (the number of papers and countries varies). You can scan through thumbnails of all of the images either alphabetically or by region. You can also find papers around the world via an interactive map. Once you find a front page that interests you, you can click on the thumbnail to get a fully readable PDF of it.
The site also keeps an archive of national and international front pages that chronicle events of historical significance, such as the Iraq war and the Red Sox winning the World Series. You can see those front pages here.
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