Day After Election Front Pages From Around the World

Two journalism sites, Poynter and Newseum, feature newspaper front pages of post election day coverage. Both include foreign press as well as national but the Newseum site has more papers.

Page One Today: Obama's Historic Victory
Selected images of newspaper front pages from November 5th and 6th, 2008. From the Poynter Institute.

Today's Front Pages: Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Hundreds of newspaper front pages from 66 countries reporting Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election. Papers can be viewed alphabetical (newspaper name) or by geographic region. From the Newseum website.

See this blog's previous post on Today's Front Pages.

Government Shutdown: Comparing Newspaper Front Pages

Whether you have a fervent or just passing interest in front page coverage of big stories, the best place to start is the Newseum's Today's Front Pages Web site. Today's sampling includes 908 front pages from 87 countries, all weighing in in some fashion on the US government shutdown. Each day's  selection of front pages is available on the site by 8:30 a.m. Each morning editors choose a min-exhibit of that day's top 10 front pages. You can ignore such pre-selection and wade through them all yourself or, for more organized browsing, papers are sorted by region with lists and maps.

Today's Front Pages is also a permanent "bricks and mortar" exhibit residing on the 6th level of the museum (located in Washington, DC). The  museum as a whole is this librarian-blogger's favorite non-art museum on the planet. Good stuff for all ages!

Tracking the Crackups: News on the Net

Searcher Magazine features a roundup of go-to internet sites for breaking news. You can read the article, Tracking the Crackups: News on the Net, by Irene McDermott, online via the Penn Library e-resources. Or you can just rifle through the sites mentioned in the article without context with the useful resource list the magazine provides on the open web for free.
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INTERNET EXPRESS: TRACKING THE CRACKUPS: NEWS ON THE NET
by Irene E. McDermott
Reference Librarian/Systems Manager
Crowell Public Library, City of San Marino
Searcher, the Magazine for Database Professionals
Vol. 19, No. 4 • May 2011

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Today's Front Pages

Each day The Newseum, Freedom Forum's interactive news museum, displays the front pages of 566 newspapers from around the world. 51 countries are represented. Alphabetical lists of countries represented and newspaper titles are available., i.e. the site is very easy to navigate. Today's Front Page, as it is called, is not an archive so much as an exhibit. The exhibit is that day's front pages. Previous days are not available so if you know ahead of time that you are going to be doing any kind of content analysis of front pages begin collecting images ahead of time (being mindful of copyright restrictions as outlined at the site).