22 May Interactive World Map with Today’s Front Pages
22.05.09
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I just wanted to pass along something I had found recently: Newseum has an interactive map that allows you to see that day’s front pages from various papers from around the world. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, you can’t enlarge the pages (although you can zoom-in on the map), so by-and-large only the headlines are readable. Nonetheless, this does allow you to scan headlines from around the globe and, to that extent, it is a snapshot of the first draft(s) of history.
Response…Thanks for this Chris. It is very interesting. Though I note that it only has four newspapers from all of Africa — two in South Africa, one in Tunisia, and one in Morocco. But I guess that is a start!
You can enlarge the pages by viewing them via the Gallery or List links on the top left of the map console. Remarkable. Thank you, Chris, for the tip.
Thanks for the explanation, Dean!