I’m not ashamed to admit that when I was younger I really enjoyed watching the movie Newsies. In fact, our family adventure to collect enough tickets to the sneak preview at our local shopping mall is something we still laugh about, more than ten years later. But that’s a story for another blog post.

The reason I bring it up is I site I found recently reminded me of how the newspaper boys were on the verge of being run out of business and how they led a revolution to keep their jobs. In the movie they were successful and were able to continue delivering papers. Thanks to OnlineNewspapers.com the real life Newsies might not be so lucky.

This website is impressive to say the least. It’s got links to thousands of online newspapers from around the world. To be honest, unless you know exactly which papers you’re looking for or would like to read the site can be a bit overwhelming at first. The navigation is excellent, but there’s just so many papers to choose from. Thankfully, they’re listed by geographic region, name, state, etc.

One more hidden bonus that OnlineNewspapers has to offer is a link to the similarly styled Online Magazines. This page has links to hundreds of categorized magazines from around the world. I found a few broken links, but for the most part this is a solid reference.

Oh yeah, one last thing. This week when you go to tip your paperboy make sure you give him (or her) back this week’s job ads, because slowly but surely sites like OnlineNewspapers.com are putting our modern-day Newsies out of business.