The Swiss National Library (SNL) operates a variety of different digitization projects for different kinds of materials. The biggest part of the pie contains newspapers. Newspapers are of high interest to the public and to researchers in the Digital Humanities field. The effort must be made to put as much as possible newspapers online. The SNL as per her strategy is to take a leading role in this digitization effort. This paper will describe how the newspapers are digitized, what the SNL’s role is and how the pipeline is structured from original to online presentation.