• Geographical scope and distribution

  • Local or regional

A local newspaperserves a region such as a city, or part of a large city. Almost every market has one or two newspapers that dominate the area. Large metropolitan newspapers often have large distribution networks, and can be found outside their normal area, sometimes widely, sometimes from fewer sources.

• National

Newspaper stand in Salta(Argentina).

Most nations have at least one newspaper that circulates throughout the whole country: a national newspaper. Some national newspapers, such asThe Financial TimesandThe Wall Street Journal, are specialised (in these examples, on financial matters). There are manynational newspapers in the UK, but onlyfew in the United StatesandCanada. In the United States, in addition to national newspapers as such,The New York Timesis available throughout the country[citation needed].

International newspapers on sale in Cairo, Egypt

There is also a small group of newspapers which may be characterized as international newspapers. Some, such asThe International Herald Tribune, have always had that focus, while others are repackaged national newspapers or "international editions" of national or large metropolitan newspapers. In some cases articles that might not interest the wider range of readers are omitted from international editions; in others, of interest toexpatriates, significant national news is retained.

As English became the international language of business and technology, many newspapers formerly published only in non-English languages have also developed English-language editions. In places as varied as JerusalemandMumbai, newspapers are printed for a local and international English-speaking public, and for tourists. The advent of the Internet has also allowed non-English-language newspapers to put out a scaled-down English version to give their newspaper a global outreach.

Similarly, in many countries with a large foreign-language-speaking population or many tourists, newspapers in languages other than the national language are both published locally and imported. For example, newspapers and magazines from many countries, and locally published newspapers in many languages, are readily to be found on news-stands in central London.

• Subject matter

General newspapers cover all topics, with different emphasis. While at least mentioning all topics, some might have good coverage of international events of importance; others might concentrate more on national or local entertainment or sports. Specialised newspapers might concentrate more specifically on, for example, financial matters. There are publications covering exclusively sports, or certain sports, horse-racing, theatre, and so on, although they may no longer be called newspapers.

• Technology

Soldiers in an East Germantank unit reading about the erection of theBerlin Wallin 1961 in the newspaperNeues Deutschland

• Print

For centuries newspapers were printed on paper and distributed physically to readers.

• Online

Main article: Online newspaper

Virtually all printed newspapers have online editions distributed over the Internet which, depending on the country may be regulated by journalism organizations such as thePress Complaints Commissionin the UK.[22]But as some publishers find their print-based models increasingly unsustainable[citation needed], Web-based "newspapers" have also started to appear, such as theSouthport Reporterin the UK and theSeattle Post-Intelligencer,[23]which stopped publishing in print after 149 years in March 2009 and went online only.

• Custom

A new trend in newspaper publishing is the introduction of personalizationthroughon-demand printingtechnologies. Customized newspapers allow the reader to create their individual newspaper through the selection of individual pages from multiple publications. This "Best of" approach allows to revive the print-based model and opens up a new distribution channel to increase coverage beneath the usual boundaries of distribution. Customized newspapers online have been offered by MyYahoo, I-Google, CRAYON, ICurrent.com, Kibboko.com, Twitter.times and many others.