Some exciting things going on in the newspaperprovider world :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform

The New York Times also has an impressive developer page :

http://developer.nytimes.com/

Will the traditional newspaper companies be reborn as digital information clearinghouses? I hope so. They are sitting on a ton of incredible data. They’ve got some very smart folks working on this stuff.

It’s a good time to be a web developer.