Newspaper Newspapers were published news sources . History . The Ninth Doctor bought a newspaper dated 24 December 1869 . This differed from his prediction of the date . ( TV : " The Unquiet Dead " ) Martha Jones handed John Smith a newspaper dated Monday 10 November 1913 . She told him this confirmed he was not " adventuring in the future " . ( TV : " Human Nature " ) The Tenth Doctor looked at a newspaper dated 8 December 1926 , the day of Agatha Christie ' s disappearance . ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) In New York City , Martha Jones read a newspaper dated 1 November 1930 . The headline read " Hooverville mystery deepens " . ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " ) The Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon hid from the Chameleon behind a newspaper . ( TV : " The Faceless Ones " ) Frobisher liked to collect newspapers ( or the local equivalent ) from the places he visited . During a visit to Hollywood in 1977 , he bought a copy of the . ( PROSE : " " ) Ace bought a newspaper that had a story about a comet heading to Earth , but she was more interested in the football results . ( TV : " Silver Nemesis " ) A London newspaper declared the Space Pig incident a hoax . ( TV : " World War Three " ) The Ninth Doctor was alerted to the presence of Blon Fel - Fotch Passameer - Day Slitheen after seeing her on the cover of a newspaper . ( TV : " Boom Town " ) A clipping of this story was displayed on the door before the entrance to Torchwood Hub . ( TV : " Cyberwoman " ) The Abzorbaloff read " The Daily Telegraph " and used it to conceal his appearance , unsuccessfully , from Elton Pope and Ursula Blake . ( TV : " Love & Monsters " ) Ealing ' s local newspaper was the " Ealing Echo " . ( TV : " Revenge of the Slitheen " , " The Day of the Clown " , " Lost in Time " ) While searching for the missing Sarah Jane Smith in 2008 , Maria Jackson found a newspaper article from 1964 stating she had died after falling from a pier . ( TV : " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " ) Wilfred Mott sold newspapers from a stand . ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) Sarah Jane Smith had several newspaper clippings on her staircase . ( TV : " The Day of the Clown " ) In 2011 , the Eleventh Doctor discovered a story in the " Leadworth Chronicle " about a crop circle with the word " Doctor " . ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) The " Colchester Evening News " had news of a local " Britain ' s Got Talent " contestant ahead of local disappearances in Colchester . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) Swann confronted Ramón Salamander after he found a newspaper clipping that showed there was life on the surface of the Earth . ( TV : " The Enemy of the World " ) Alistair Gryffen had many old newspapers in his Gryffen Manor . Darius Pike found an issue of the " Daily Standard " dated 23 November 1963 , with the headline being the capture of a cat burglar . He found Jorjie Turner in the picture , indicating that the Space - Time Manipulator had sent her there . The newspaper also had the latest news on the Kennedy assassination . ( TV : " The Cambridge Spy " ) The " Daily Nebulous " was a newspaper . It once published a story on the disappearance of Ivan Asimoff . ( COMIC : " Polly the Glot " ) The Fourth Doctor had an issue of the " Daily Mirror " from 15 April 1912 . The front page headline was the sinking of RMS " Titanic " . ( TV : " The Invasion of Time " ) The Third Doctor found an issue of " The Illustrated London News " dated 1926 aboard the SS " Bernice " . ( TV : " Carnival of Monsters " ) While with Rory Williams and the Eleventh Doctor in New York City in 2012 , Amy Pond read an issue of " The New York Record " newspaper . ( TV : " The Angels Take Manhattan " )