Want to check out the news in Lagos or Lima? Or find Arabic language online newspapers … and translate them with a single click? Then head over to Newspapermap, writes Dan Mason.
The site plots over 10,000 online newspapers (I’ll take their word for it), making it a cinch to search by title, location or even language. Click on a placemark, then either visit the original or translated site (via Google Translate).
Newspapermap is simple, effective and one of the best bits of Google mapping I’ve seen. Helpfully, there’s a button to add more sites or correct errors.
Slightly confusingly, there are German, Indian, Japanese, UK and .com versions. (For some reason, I found newspapermap.com showed fewer placemarks than the others)
There’s even a button that pinpoints historical newspaper archives (note: only on newspapermap.com). While far from comprehensive – and heavily weighted towards the US and Scandinavia – it’s compelling stuff.
Newspapermap will take you back in time to a German newspaper in Tanzania, circa 1899, and even further back to the Dead Sea Scrolls
With a couple of clicks, I found myself perusing the first issue of Tanzania’s German Ostafrikanische Zeitung (East African Newspaper) from February 1899, and even, would you believe … the Dead Sea Scrolls.
I’ve shared Newspapermap on journalism courses, to research the treatment of breaking news in different countries, and compare the style and design of online newspapers. So there are lots of ways it can be used.
Newspapermap is the work of Great Name, a Swedish app company with a decidely quirky home page. They clearly like maps.
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