I will be doing a research paper where I look at how a certain event was portrayed by various world newspapers. The NY Times, Christian Science Monitor, and LA Times are fairly well-regarded American publications. But what about the rest of the world? What is China’s major newspaper(s), for instance? And, more importantly, is it available in English?
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Pick a country from the menu, and click “Search Now!”
You’ll get a list of papers, the language they’re in, and links to the papers.
Thank you for that link. However, I am more interested in getting what is generally considered the most influential or respected newspapers for that region or country.
I’ll posit some, sure to be corrected:
England:
Dunno, Times/Mirror?
France:
Le Figaro
Le Monde
Germany:
Allgemeine Zeitung
Suddeutsche Zeitung
Spain:
El Pais
crayon.net is another good link page- they rate newspapers by popularity, so that might help determine which are the majors.
Interesting twist. I’d consider the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times (and maybe the Washington Post, LA Times and/or Chicago Tribune) as the most influential US dailies. But I wouldn’t be surprised if USA Today, which is a pretty mediocre paper, is not more “popular”, and hence at least equally influential.
U.S.: Leading papers are the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, with various other big-city dailies trailing them – in what order is purely subjective with the commentator.
England: The Times, the Daily Telegraph, and the Guardian are highly respected.
France: Le Monde. Paris-Match is famous, but how reputable it is I’m not sure.
Italy: The Milan daily, whose name escapes me, is a leading paper if not the standard to which others aspire.
Russia: Pravda has thrown off its Communist-party trappings and become a significant and relatively objective journalistic enterprise.
Special notes: L’Observatore Romano, published in and by Vatican City, is considered to have excellent news, objective except insofar as Catholic issues are addressed. The Herald-Tribune, based in Paris and in origin an enterprise of the now-defunct New York paper, is considered the leading English-language European (as opposed to U.K.) paper.
Some from Canada:
Influential nationwide:
The Globe And Mail.
Strong in their regions:
La Presse.
The Toronto Star.
India:
The Times of India
Hindustan Times
Indian Express
Asian Age
That would be Corriere della Sera, whose name roughly translates as “The Evening Courier”.
L’Osservatore Romano is familiar to old Saturday Night Live viewers as the “employer” of gossip columnist Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello).Jerusalem Post
To answer the original poster, China’s newspaper of record is People’s Daily. Clicking on the link will take you to the English edition.
Other publications of note:
Cuba: Granma
Brazil: O Globo (apparently available only in Portuguese)
Kenya: Daily Nation
Israel: Jerusalem Post
Here are the front pages of 277 newspapers from 38 countries. Should be enough info there to contrast how different events are treated in different countries.
You got to be kidding about the Jerusalem Post - it’s read mainly by the U.S. Embassy staff and a few thousand American immigrants. It has no influence whatsoever (and it’s poorly written to boot).
The leading Israeli papers are Yediot Acharonot and Maariv, with Haaretz a distant third.
A good start for web page directory of newspapers is The Paperboy .
As far as for Mexico:
India (English papers):
The Times of India ( http://www.timesofindia.com )
Indian Express ( http://www.expressindia.com/ )
Pink Paper: The Economic Times ( http://www.economictimes.com )
I don’t know which would be considered the most influential, but the major English-language newspapers in Japan (with their websites) are:
The Japan Times (probably the most popular among the gaijin) http://www.japantimes.com/
The Daily Yomiuri (conservative-leaning) http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm
The Asahi Shimbun (liberal-leaning, partnered with the International Herald Tribune) http://www.asahi.com/english/
The Mainichi News http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/.
Paris-Match is a magazine, not a newspaper. For France, there is also Libération, kind of left-leaning.
For Japan, you need to also add the Nippon Keizai Shinbun. Though I don’t think its readership is anywhere near the tabloids like Nikkan Sports (no, it’s not all sports) it’s pretty influencial. It’s main focus is economy, it’s a bit the Wall Street Journal of Japan. The Chunichi Shinbun is also really big around here and could be considered one of the majors.
For Canada, you need to add the National Post. Kind of right-leaning, pan-Canadian distribution. In French, the most read paper is the Journal de Montréal. It’s a lot like the New York Post. Mostly blood’n sports. There is also Le Devoir, very distant third in readership after JdM and La Presse, but highly respected amongst intellectuals. Kind of to the left.
The People’s Daily (renminribao) is the big national Chinese paper, and it has a IIRC 12 page English edition as well as an online edition. Google and you’ll find it. There are other national papers as well such as the Liberation Daily (jiefangribao), but the People’s would be the one you’re looking for.
The editorial pages previously was 100% the mouthpiece of the party. these days, the party ain’t what it used to be.
In France, the reference paper would be clearly “Le Monde” (*), with “Le Figaro” (right-leaning) and “Liberation” (left-leaning) being distant second. AFAIK, none has an english edition (though I could be mistaken, it’s not like I’m actively trying to read french papers in english)
(Paris-Match used to be famous because it occasionnally published the works of famous photo reporters. I’m not sure if it’s still positively regarded, even concerning photo reporting. Anyway, it’s essentially a popular magazine, not at all a reference newspaper.)
(*) Since they’re occassionnally mistaken, I wanted to add that “Le monde diplomatique” is an entirely different beast : a weekly publishing lenghty analysis articles about various countries or world events, pretty interesting but strongly oriented politicaly (leftist, anti-globalization, etc…).
Just to add that there are some other papers with a large readership in France ( France-Soir, Le Parisien, etc…) but which are popular papers and not considered as references in any way, nor particulary "respected’ (though I suppose they could be “influential” in their own ways).
For Germany:
National-circulation dailies:
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (daily, conservative/pro-business. The URL is for the weekly English edition.)
Frankfurter Rundschau (smaller, liberal local rival)
Sueddeutsche Zeitung (daily, liberal)
Bild (tabloid, conservativ-ish/populist, not respected but feared)
(note: regional/local dailies have much larger circulation than the national dailies. They have less influence on the national political debate, though)
Magazines:
Der Spiegel (main newsmagazine, centrist, investigative - officials read it on Monday to learn if they have to discover their urge to spend more time with their families by Friday)
Focus (to the right of Spiegel, less influential)
Stern (centrist, for those who don’t read Spiegel because they like less text/more pictures). Has yet to live down the Hitler Diaries embarrasment…
Weeklies:
Die Zeit (highbrow, centrist, Atlanticist)
Niche:
Neues Deutschland (left, US:extreme left. Was official party newspaper of East Germany.)
die Tageszeitung (or TAZ for short) (alternative/Green)
Junge Freiheit (far right/nationalist)