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When I was a student journalist in high school, I collected newspapers from around the country and around the world. Even now, as a former newspaperman, I still love getting the papers wherever I travel.

It could be my hometown Chicago Tribune or The Philadelphia Inquirer or even La Repubblica in Rome (and I don't even read Italian). There's something fascinating about reading (or just seeing) what's news and how it's presented in different cities.

Now, though, I can get my daily newspaper fix online. The Newseum website offers front pages from newspapers around the world every day. Today, there are 565 front pages from 55 countries, including Málaga Hoy from Spain (above).

Every day, you can see different front pages from all over the world—from The Daily Telegraph in London to The Telegraph in Calcutta, India, from the United Daily News in Taipei, Taiwan, to the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska. You can view them as a gallery, as a list or even on a map.

The site also includes archived papers from recent major news events, such as the 9/11 attacks and the space shuttle explosion.

The Newseum is a massive new museum that just opened Friday in Washington, D.C. It covers news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. Intelligent Travel wrote about the Newseum last week, and The Washington Post has a lot more details.

The museum even includes the Today's Front Pages Gallery, where up to 80 front pages—including one from each U.S. state and a sample from around the world—are on display each day. Or you can see them all online.

Comments

[Rick Beato]

Well, that was an interesting two-and-a-half hours, looking through today's front pages and glancing through the Archives to see how Gov. Spitzer was treated in March (it was the most recent archive!)

This is a wonderful learning site, an enjoyable bit of a feeling of travel, and a real honor to great daily newspapers. If I had known such a site when I taught journalism, it would have become a staple of that class, especially when studying page design.

[justin]

I began collecting copies of "The Metro" from various cities throughout the world as well. It's a fun thing to collect because its a fun/free souvenir, and when you look back on it gives you a snippet about what was going on in the world when you traveled there!