Even though I work in journalism, I have to say I
think our national papers often do a less than satisfactory job on international news. Sure, most of the major papers
have an international section, and their correspondents are out there doing the very best they can finding the key, big
stories in a place. But most of the time those stories are run because of the immediate importance or interest to
Americans and/or their readership. And the stories themselves can also often have a decidedly American bias. That’s
just an opinion. You’re free to disagree. But the point I’m making is that there is one hell of a lot of news happening
in other places that you never find out about in our own media.
So with that rambling preamble, let m
introduce you to a site (one of many out there, but I did find this one
particularly cool) that lists newspaper around the world. Maybe you’re taking a trip to Rio or Copenhagen, Denmark.
Perhaps it would behoove you to see what’s actually happening in those countries. Of course, in many cases you’d have
to speak the language to read the news. But many of these papers offer English version and/or have an English language
paper in general.