On http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/11/award-winning-newspaper-designs/ we get a good example of some extremely well designed modern newspapers.
My personal favourite is the first one on the list: elEconomista (Madrid, Spain).
The layout is quite complex, yet never looks cluttered - for example on some pages, the text flushes to the shapes of the images (not justified as would normally be the case), yet the 'neatness' of the layout doesn't suffer as a result. The colours are bright without being gaudy - the use of orange, green, black and white as their signature colours is quite daring, but they pull it off extremely well. The shade of green they use tones down the orange, and balances the color scheme perfectly. Expert use of white-space makes everything appear clean and readable.
On http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2007/01/17_newspapers.shtml we see an example of a newspaper printed in San Fransisco in the 1900's. Interestingly, the layout style is very similar to that of most newspapers printed today, newspaper designers ultimately follow the same basic rules when designing newspapers today as they did back then. Of course designers back then didn't have the luxury of colour ink, all papers up until
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Very good analysis of layout, use of colours & images and use of whitespace for clarity
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