Monday 23 March 2009

NewScan-14 front pages on one webpage

My friend Kyle and his business partner Craig have created a really cool website called NewScan that lets you read the front pages of 14 different newspapers. At first glance, this doesn't sound that exciting, since reading a newspaper online isn't particularly cutting-edge. But when I say front page I don't mean the newspaper's home page, I mean the thing you see when you sit down with your cup of coffee and unfold a materially present, printed-on-newsprint newspaper in its corporeal form.

This lends itself to US newspapers a bit better than to UK newspapers, since American papers tend to cram more onto their front pages (the cover of the Independent would be an especially quick read). As it is, the UK is represented by the Guardian and the Times. Then there's Gulf News and Haaretz, and the rest of the newspapers are all American (well, the International Herald Tribune is a borderline case).

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