How to make a miniature campfire in a tin can?

Don't use newspaper as the embers can get airborne quickly and the fire will die too soon. I have done this in the past with 1 or 2 charcoal briquets in a soup can. Wait for the flame to go down and the white coal will give off heat for as long as you need. When done fill the soup can with water. May need to refill it in a couple minutes based on steam loss. Leave it full overnight and the next morning it will be safe to discard.

look up the Solo Stove and copy it. for one shot use, a tin can will handle it. it probably won't melt. it's basically two cans one over the other, crimped together and holes drilled in specific places. it's a highly efficient wood stove and a handful of twigs will make for a 5-10 minute fire. it'll start out like 2 feet high then reduced to glowing embers really fast.

a less complex design that works is the Vargo Titanium stove, it's basically a cone-shaped stove wit ha n open top and a bottom with some holes. it draws air in from the bottom and does not burn wood gas like the solo stove. you just need a tin can, a slightly smaller tin can, remove the bottom of the bigger can, cut down most of the smaller can until it's only about an inch high, punch a bunch of hole in the bottom inset and slip into the bigger can, crimp in place...

alternatively you can look up the penny stove and make one from a soda can. penny stoves run on alcohol such as denatured, rubbing (91%) or if you don't care wasting good drinking alcohol, Bacardi 151 will work too. they're called penny stoves since a penny's worth of alcohol (15 grams) will boil 16 oz of water in 4 minutes and burn for about 8 minutes. very powerful little stove, easily homemade. reusable.

Drill four holes in the sides of the can about 3mm from the can bottom, opposite each other (like a cross). You will need these in order to get a fire at all.

No, newspaper won't do as fuel. It's too light and when it burns sufficiently, the burning embers will take flight, causing a fire hazard. Small sticks, small enough to feed through one of the holes while the fire is burning, will do nicely. But don't plug the holes -- they are your fire's airway.

Follow good firemaking technique to light the fire, possibly through one of the holes (make them about the same size or slightly larger than that of a ball point pen) until you get a good burn going. A smart thing to do would be to use small sticks slightly larger than the diameter of the can, causing them to all lean at an angle inside the can, and stack it to the top, then light it from the bottom.

This will give you a good clean flame for about 5-10 minutes if you're lucky.

That's how I'd do it.

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Sounds like an insane thing to do!