Generating electricity with wet newspapers?
You will need to soak your newspapers in a suitable electrolyte, water will not work.  You could try lemon juice as a weak acid (vinegar could work).  You will then need two dis-similar metals one for the Anode and the other for the Cathode.  Let us say a piece of copper and a piece of zinc (galvanised steel will do).  Place the two metals in contact with the sodden newspaper and measure the voltage between the plates.  You should get around 0.85V.  You will not get much current out of this cell as the internal resistance of the soggy newspaper will be quite high.  It should light up an LED.

You could just get a lemon and stick the two metals through the skin into the fruit, dispensing with a messy pile of soggy newspaper.