Covertimes: Enjoy Front Page Newspaper Photos from Around the World

News photographers have a potentially valuable new tool with Covertimes, a new website that congregates images of front pages from newspapers around the world.

The site, also available as an iPhone or Android app, averages more than 400 newspapers a day, offering an at-a-glance summary of what’s hot at the moment.

For photojournalists (or just ambitious iPhone owners), that could mean a better idea of what their peers around the world are creating, and what photos newspaper editors around the world are choosing to feature prominently on their publication.

Here are a few of our impressions from looking at a few days worth of collages:

• Sports shots are big for European newspapers.
• To appeal to American editors, look for photo opps that include an American flag and to which “hero” could conceivably appear in the headline.
• If all else fails, suck it up and become a paparazzi,. Nothing sells like celebrity shots. (We kid, but you’ll see that there’s some truth to that.)

The site/app is run by Spanish-language soccer media site Resultados Futbol and includes options for viewing front pages by date, country or category.

Newspaper Covers from around the world [Covertimes]