[neveh-l] NEWSPAPERS AROUND THE WORLD

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To: "neveh-vc" <neveh-vc@xxxxxxxxxxx>,"Neveh-tech" <neveh-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,"neveh-l freelists" <neveh-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:06:20 +0200

Even though the Newseum has gone into hibernation, you can still find
the bottom portion of that wall -- the front pages of over 100
different newspapers -- on the Newseum's "Today's Front Pages" page at

<A HREF="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/";>
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/ </A>.

[Let's see how many times I can say the word "page" in the next
sentence.]  The Newseum's Today's Front Pages page lets you view the
current front pages of 163 newspapers from 25 different countries ...
page page page.

The first thing you'll see are thumbnail images of the front pages of
four dozen newspapers.  Hold you mouse over any of the thumbnails and
two things happen:

     1. A larger, full-color image of that front page appears on the
        right side of your screen; and

     2. The name and city of that paper appears at the bottom right of
        your screen.

Moving your mouse over the 48 thumbnails is cool, I guess, but I
prefer using the "Map View."  Click on the Map View tab at the top
left of the page and up pops a window that lets you browse through the
front pages from a particular continent or region.  [You'll need to
disable your pop-up killer -- like WebWasher or Ad-Subtract -- in
order for this pop-up window to appear.]

Click on the name of a continent or region and up pops a political map
with yellow thumb tacks showing you the locations of that continent's
or region's newspapers.  Use the arrows at the bottom of the political
map to scroll left or right.  For example, the US map is so wide that
you'll have to scroll left a couple of times in order to see
California.  Or you can just pretend that California has floated off
into the ocean.

Hold your mouse over any yellow thumb tack on the political map and
you'll see on the right side of the pop-up window a small, thumbnail
version of that city's newspaper's front page.  Be patient.  It may
take a few seconds for that image to load.

Click on that yellow thumb tack and up pops second window showing that
newspaper's front page in a larger, JPEG format.  If you want to see
that front page even closer and you have Adobe Acrobat installed on
your computer, click on the PDF link at the top of this second pop-up
window.

I apologize if this sounds confusing.  It really isn't.

One thing to keep in mind, though, is that the Today's Front Pages
page can be a little slow at times.  For example, it took 20 seconds
to load the PDF of the front page of the Asian Wall Street Journal
over my cable modem.  :(

Still, Today's Front Pages is a WONDERFUL resource for anyone
interested in keeping up with current events or seeing how different
newspapers, countries, or even regions cover a particular news story
-- like, for example, the war in Iraq.



 
Reuven Werber
Ed Tech Coordinator
Neveh Channah HS - Gush Etzion, Israel
www.nevnet.etzion.k12.il
Virtual Reference Desk Information Specialist
Instructor - Herzog Teacher's College
Yeshivat Har Etzion

[neveh-l] NEWSPAPERS AROUND THE WORLD

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