About The Front Page Project

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Are we being well served by our newspapers? Do they inform and educate us about the important events and issues of our time or are they just feeding us a diet of curated opinion supported by selective news 'spin' spiced with the memes and distractions of popular and celebrity culture?

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Maybe the answer's obvious to you. Perhaps you consider yourself immune to their influence or believe that newspapers are now irrelevant; then again it's equally possible you are convinced, as many are, that our communal consciousness is being poisoned by a continuous drip of propaganda and political bias.

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Whatever your views you have to accept that millions of your fellow citizens read them; even in the age of the 24 hour TV news cycle and social media our newspapers frame the conversations of the day. They provide the content that commentators and pundits need. So do they do their job?

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For one year we plan to track and monitor what the papers decide are the most important issues facing the nation by cataloguing their front pages. In time we will be able to analyse the way the papers speak to and for us as a community, if they do at all. Should be interesting, don't you think?

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Please bear with us as this site builds, some areas may not be immediately available either because there is not enough data or because that data has yet to be processed and analysed. We will update as often as possible. As time goes on it should become an increasingly fascinating and interesting source of media scrutiny.

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A note on sources:

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While every effort is made to complie an accurate and complete record of each day's publications, there are occasional gaps where no resource material was available.

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Publications where sourcing has proven consistently difficult (such as the People, the Sunday Mirror and the Evening Standard) have been omitted altogether.

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All of the images on this site are taken from web, twitter or facebook pages (often the papers' own) where the front page has been specifically reproduced for free public display.

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No formal permission has been sought or given for their use and no amendment, transfer, waiver or loss of the original owners' copyrights on this material should be implied or taken.

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The images are used here under an invocation of 'fair use' for research and social commentary only and not for any commercial purpose. It is not intended as an alternative or aggregated news site.

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