Sunday, February 22, 2009
The World's Front Pages
Want to see what newspapers around the world are featuring on their front pages? See how their design as well as news choices compare? Then go Washington, D.C. Not literally, of course, but virtually to the Newseum, the world's most interactive museum. At Today's Front Pages , pick where in the world you want to read a front page: USA, North America, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Middle East, Oceania, South America, Africa. Then roll your mouse over the map and click on the spot you want to visit. Lots of fun but will also help you brush up on your geography! Even my hometown newspaper is on it. See if you can find The Telegraph in Alton, Illinois. Hint: it's on the Mississippi River in southern Illinois.
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I chose to see the front page of the Caribbean. Because, I’m curious and I want to know about newspapers in this part of the world. before I look at Newsuem I don’t have an idea What kind of news the Caribbean newspapers think are the most important for newspapers to be in front page? What their front page look like?
Then after looking at Newsuem I found that there is 3 main newspapers; Jamaica Observer, The gleaner & El Nuevo Dia. The first two is published in English and nearly in all of them the local news occupied the front page.
While the third one I think is in Spanish (not sure correct me if I’m wrong) and its front page has different design than the rest and it looks like a magazine cover page as it has a big photo related to a leading story in the newspaper with few short headlines of important news story.
By the way, I found your hometown newspaper The Telegraph which has almost local news on it. For example, in Feb, 23, 2009 it had in front page several local stories such as,
“Employment office looks for new home,” Alton
“Shock treatment,” Alton
“Church member celebrate heritage” Godfrey
“Good call” CUB urges Illinoisans to reduce phone bills
Actually, i like Newsuem it is a real museum of great number of worldwide newspapers plus i like its name "Newsuem" :)
English is the language of Jamaica, a former British colony, so I wondered a bit when I saw El Nuevo Dia, Spanish indeed. El Nuevo Dia is published in the nearby Puerto Rico, a former Spanish colony and now a self-governing, unincorporated territory of the U.S. Both Spanish and English are spoken there. The San Juan Star, published in English, is better known.
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