The medium is the message

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

A week ago, Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution pointed to two newspaper services. A third can be added to that list: Today's Front Pages (from the Newseum). It shows 435 front pages from 47 countries, and has link to those papers' websites. It's an especially interesting resource if you're interested in graphic design and typography in the printed news media. Oh, and in the news too, I guess.

"Today's Front Pages" is an online version of one of the Newseum's most popular exhibits. Every morning, more than 300 newspapers from around the world submit their front pages to the Newseum via the Internet.

Sixty-eight of the front pages are selected for an outdoor exhibit located at Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street in downtown Washington, D.C., future site of the Newseum. Front pages are chosen to represent each of the 50 states as well as a selection of international newspapers. The electronic files are printed out on large-format printers at the Newseum's offices in Arlington, Va., then are transported to the Pennsylvania Avenue site and mounted inside the 98-foot-long steel and Plexiglas display by 8:30 a.m., seven days a week.

All of the front pages received that morning are then posted on the Newseum's Web site. The full selection of each day's front pages is available on the Web site by 9:30 a.m. daily. For more information, please visit our FAQ Page.

(Via Design Observer.)