The Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States is on newspaper front pages around the world. See several newspaper front pages here (and links to hundreds more) and video on the unprecedented worldwide media coverage of the historic event which took place on January 20, 2009.
According to a news monitoring group, there were generated an unprecedented 35,000 stories about President Barack Obama’s inauguration in major newspapers, television and radio around the world.
The Texas-based Global Language Monitor said there had also been 6 million new Obama-related mentions on the Internet since December 31.By comparison, the last U.S. presidential inauguration, of George W. Bush in January 2005, resulted in about 1,000 stories in major media worldwide, Paul JJ Payack, president of Global Language Monitor said.
“The Obama numbers are unprecedented and speak volumes to the global fascination with the new American president, his wife and young family,” Payack told Reuters. “Obama is the biggest story of the century so far.”
Source: Obama inauguration got unprecedented news coverage
Chicago Sun-Times front page January 21, 2009 (More newspapers below)
As with the historic Presidential election, the Inauguration of Barack Obama has created worldwide enthusiasm and awe.
Many international newspapers focused on the powerful symbolism and unifying power of the arrival of an African-American U.S. president on the world stage.
“We’re a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers,” said the headline on the front of the Times of India, taking a line from Obama’s inaugural address.
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun said: “He is expected to play the leading role in changing the world in which racial and religious confrontations continue to rage in defiance of the ideal expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
Source: Press Review: World hails ‘United States of Obama‘ Continue reading for more reactions and quotations from world newspapers.
See also: Extra, extra! Newspapers print inaugural editions
Above: New York Times front page. Scroll down to see several more January 21, 2009 front pages.
Here is a mosaic of Obama Inauguration headlines.
To see more than 700 Obama Inauguration newspaper front pages from more than 70 countries around the world, see the Newseum archive.
Here are videos on the rush to find and collect historic Inaugural Day newspaper front pages and the worldwide media reaction.
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New York Daily News
The Christian Science Monitor
The San Francisco Chronicle
Le Figaro, Paris, France
BILD, Berlin, Germany
ABC, Madrid Spain
The National, United Arab Emirates
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For me this is a historical moment reaching back to my great-great-grandfather, Anderson Castleberry, Polk County,TX, September 23, 1867,commissioned as an elector,who along with his contemporaries participated in the first movement of African Americans toward full citizenship. As part of that movement, they began the road to suffrage for African Americans, casting their first votes in forming state constitutions during mandated state conventions in 1868 and 1869. My great-geat-grandfather’s Registration certificate, September 23, 1867, occupies a place of honor and pride in our home along with President Barack Obama and his pre and post inaugural activities. His hope in the promise of America streamed into the same hope President Obama feels for the same promise. What a feeling of reverence for this occasion, and hopefulness for others to come. At this time, I can truly feel the awesome power of Maya Angelou’s voice, “The sun has come out. The mists are gone. I see in the distance my long way home.”
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