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Sean Peck has created a great news search site called NewsIndex -- you can search hundreds of papers, magazines and news sites. Try it out:
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YAHOO! NEWS
If there's a subject area or interest out there, Yahoo is involved -- and news is no exception. Yahoo's Daily News is a good start for all kinds of news, from sports to business.
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NEWSPAPERS
A good all-in-one index and collection of links to newspapers around the world is maintained at Newspapers Online
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NEWS SEARCH
An Australian company called Communi-e-kay Marketing has set up a news search site called NewsTrawler.
The alternative Village Voice has a good site too, while the Chicago Tribune has been exploring a Web strategy that looks like something halfway between TV and a newspaper. If you want to go straight to the source for your news, you can check the press release wires, such as PR Newswire and Business Wire, or the news release wires such as TheWire -- run by the Associated Press -- or Reuters, which is available through Yahoo. NewsPage allows you to drill down through subject categories to the current stories you're interested in. When it comes to broadcast news, the biggies are CNN and its financial news affiliate site CNNfn, then there's CNBC, and the joint venture between Microsoft and NBC called (not surprisingly) MSNBC. There's also Fox News and the venerable "Beeb" -- otherwise known as the BBC.
For technology news, a couple of the hot spots are CNET's News.com and the online news site originally started by Wired magazine called Wired News (now separate from the magazine). CMP, the computer magazine publisher, has a site called Techweb, and Ziff-Davis -- also a major tech magazine publisher -- has the Ziff-Davis News Network. A nice news "bites" site when it comes to technology news is Newsbytes, and there's also Computer News Daily from the New York Times Syndicate, where you can get Bill Gates's column, and Internet News. A couple of good magazines that focus specifically on technology and business news are The Red Herring (the slang name for an initial offering prospectus) and Upside magazine.
One of the most popular offerings on the Web are personalized news sites, where you can set up a profile or choose categories and then get that news specifically. One of the earliest ventures along these lines was CRAYON -- short for Create Your Own Newspaper. You pick the info you want and it sets up a Web page with all the right links, something Microsoft and Netscape only just got around to doing recently. Yahoo has a similar idea with its My Yahoo feature, and so does Excite with its My Excite, and Netscape offers something called -- surprise -- My Netscape. The "portal" site set up by CNET called Snap offers its own version as well, America Online has something called AOL My News, and CNN offers its Custom News.
This is a collection of sites that offer news -- print, visual, or some combination of the two. Just about all the major networks and newspapers are on the Web, such as ABC (part of Disney), CNN, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Some sites -- such as the WSJ -- charge for access to some of their stories, and their database of past articles, while others give you free access to everything. If you have any suggestions, comments or additions to make about this collection, please e-mail me.
When it comes to newspapers, just about everything you could name is online by now -- from the London Telegraph to the Globe and Mail in Toronto, to the Cedar Rapids Gazette in Iowa. So far, the Wall Street Journal is one of the few publications that is actually making money by charging for access to articles on its Web site. The New York Times tried giving acccess free to U.S. residents and charging everyone else, but changed its mind and now access is free to anyone. Interestingly enough, the big papers were not the first to take to the Web -- among the early pioneers were the relatively tiny News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina with its service called Nando.net, and the San Jose Mercury News in California, one of the first to offer a "personalized" news feed through its site. Good all-around newspaper sites include the Boston Globe, the New York Daily News, USA Today, the Washington Post and the always enjoyable Christian Science Monitor.
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