Belgium: The Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (Royal Library of Belgium) has uploaded free digital images of newspapers dating from 1831–1918. The site is in French, Dutch, and English, and some of the newspapers are in German. Newspapers from 1919–1950 are indexed and appear in search results, but due to copyright issues, those images are not free.
Canada: I found a trove of Mennonite links. There are links to indices for death notices and obituaries in five Mennonite newspapers, and an author/subject index for one of the newspapers (which was published in in the United States for a time and so also shows up in the Multistate list).
China: The Shanghai Echo, a periodical for Jewish refugees who had fled Europe, is online for 1946 to 1948.
England: The Foxearth and District Local History Society has posted transcribed selections from newspapers in the East Anglia area.
England: Spare Rib, a feminist publication, has been digitized and uploaded in its entirety.
England: A book was published with a detailed index of The (London) Times of 1863, and that book is available online as a downloadable PDF.
Ireland: Ancestry.com has created a new newspaper site, IrishNewspapers.com. I wonder if this means it's trying to go back to the pricing model it used to have, where you could pay for different databases separately.
Poland: There is an index to death notices published in Nasz Przegląd ("Our Review"), a Polish-language Zionist newspaper that was published daily in Warszawa from March 1923 until August 1939.
Russia: This is another Mennonite resource. Someone created an index of Mennonite-relevant stories in the German-language Odessaer Zeitung ("Odessa Newspaper").
California: The Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County has an index to early local newspapers, available as PDF files. I don't see that the index tells you which paper an entry is from, but maybe I'm just overlooking it.
Georgia: The Uncle Remus Regional Library System, which covers six counties (but not the ones I'm researching, of course), has several newspapers available online, courtesy of Advantage Preservation.
Indiana: The New Albany–Floyd County Public Library has an index to local newspapers for 1847 to the present.
Indiana: The obituary index for the Plymouth Pilot Daily is downloadable as several PDF files.
Iowa: Ten newspapers from Dickinson County have been digitized by Advantage Preservation.
Massachusetts: The first 30 years of the Boston Jewish Times are available courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society.
Michigan: More than one million subject index cards from the Detroit News are available on the Seeking Michigan site.
Michigan: The Milford Public Library not only hosts an obituary index for the Milford Times for 1929–1949, but they will provide you a free copy of the obituary when you find one you want.
Michigan: This one's a little unusual. A cemetery has the local newspaper, the Petoskey News Review for 1874–2001, on its site.
Montana: The student newspaper for Bozeman High School for 1939–2015 is available online, courtesy of Advantage Preservation.
Montana: Montana State University is in the process of placing digital copies of its student newspaper, the Exponent, online. Not everything is there yet.
Nebraska: Advantage Preservation worked with the North Bend Public Library to digitize three local newspapers there.
New Jersey: Ten early Plainfield newspapers running from 1837–1918 are on the Plainfield Library's Web site.
New Jersey: The Rockaway Township Free Public Library has the Iron Era and Rockaway Record available online.
New York: Allegany Public Library and Advantage Preservation teamed up to put four Allegany newspapers online.
New York: The Troy Irish Genealogy Society has added a marriage notices index to complement its Lansingburgh newspapers death notices index.
North Carolina: The Duke Chronicle, the student newspaper for Duke University, is online but only for the 1960's and 1980's.
Ohio: A collection of newspapers printed by the Wright Brothers has been digitized and is available on two sites, Dayton Metro Library and Wright State University.
Tennessee: An obituary index for the Nashville Tennessean for 1964 to the present is on the Nashville Public Library's site.
Multistate: The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia hosts an index for about 200,000 obituaries. There is no indication on the site what years this covers.
Multistate: MennObits has transcribed obituaries from Mennonite newspapers from 1864 to the present.
I hope you find some great information in at least one of these newspapers!
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