Here’s a great tool I discovered by way of Midnight Flights (Note: Link no longer exists):
A Newspaper Snippet Generator.
Just fill in the fields with some words and letters. Stretch your brain a bit to come up with some interesting text.
And voilà:
You could either play with this for hours coming up with weird newspaper stories for no particular reason, or for role playing gamers who play in contemporary or near-contemporary settings (d20 Modern / various GURPS / Call of Cthulhu / World of Darkness, among others)… you now have a tool to create awesome, authentic-looking images of newspapers as visual game aid.