I am not a fan of paying for
information that should be free on the web, but sometimes there are
exceptions. For instance, it you are away from home and wish to keep
up with local news, there are ways to get your paper online. Another
time might be to look up family historical information that may have
been in the paper. Here are a few sites that provide online issues
of printed copies.
Newseum – You can find and download front pages of more
than 800 newspapers from around the world and it is updated daily.
The collection includes small-town and local newspapers as well as
globally-distributed big papers. It also maintains an archive of
newspaper front pages belonging to dates of significant importance,
for example, September 11.
Press Display – Like Newseum, but for a fee, this is where
you can find current and past issues of hundreds of newspapers and
magazines in full-color, full-page format. Individual issues cost
99¢ each and you may also download them to your PC or mobile device
for offline reading.
NewspaperARCHIVE – Billed as the world’s largest online
archive of historical newspapers published from 1753 on. You can
browse newspaper issues by date or find articles that match a
particular phrase. NewspaperARCHIVE costs $9.99 a month if you
subscribe for a year.
Boston Globe – All issues of The Boston Globe newspaper
printed since 1924 are available online. You can access all news
articles printed since 1979 for free while the older articles are
available at $2.95 for a single article.
Times Machine – This site has archived editions of The
New York Times from 1851 through 1922. The issues are identical to
the original newspapers, and include all pages including
advertisements.
Times Archive – The Times daily paper from the UK offers
digital archives of issues from 1785 to 1985 on its website. All
pages of the papers are completely scanned, and organized with an
index of topics. You can read the articles highlighted on their
front page for free while specific papers and articles are available
for £4.95/day.
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