NEWSPAPERS
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http://info.fuw.edu.pl/gw/0/gazeta.html
An experimental edition of Poland's biggest daily, printed inPolish.
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http://uttm.com/
Up To The Minute is an online version of American TV's MrBig, CBS News, which means that if there's no US angle, forgetit. Hardnose it ain't, concentrating on TV reviews, exercise andpregnancy columns, and family values, making you thank your luckycheese for Jeremy Paxman. In between the arrogant agenda,however, is some half-way interesting stuff including aerospaceexpert Bill Harwood reporting on the latest from the shuttle, thediss-master himself Dennis\Cunningham with film gab, and musonews from Wired's Pete Leyden. VDO enhanced for you luckytekkies.
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http://www.the-times.co.uk/
After using the Times Newspapers site for a couple of weeks,the general consensus seems to be that they've got it right.Weekdays there's the regular Times, on Fridays there are selectedhighlights from a new edition of the Times Higher EducationSupplement and the weekend brings the Sunday Times, low ongraphics but well presented and a damn sight lighter than theamassed bulk of several hundred inky, unwieldy sections landingwith a thud on the breakfast table. The information is free andall the more enjoyable for that, with a decent-sized smatteringof stories, reviews, letters, opinion and comment from everysection of the paper. It's also very fast. On top of this thereis a Personal Times option which lets the reader choose only thebits he or she wants to look at. This is the only operation thattakes any time, dragging, as it does, all the relevant sectionsand keywords out of a database of the whole online newspaper.Interestingly, the site is best viewed in either Netscape orMicrosoft's Internet Explorer and, rather irritatingly, itsoverall ease of use and no fuss functionality make it a siteworth returning to, even for someone who has despised thenewspaper's agenda and poorly written prose in the past. Andlastly, if the news is of no interest, there's always the Timescrossword, which is almost an institution in itself.
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http://www.nytimes.com/
You can't get into The New York Times without registering andregistering with The New York Times involves inserting yourcredit card number into the appropriate box. At no point prior tothis is the user advised of charges for accessing any areas ofthe newspaper but the terms and conditions state they reserve theright to charge at any time. A bit sneaky eh! So the paper isunlikely to recruit readers who are not familiar with it alreadyor those who won't want to look at it everyday. They'll all bescared off. More usefully, the services that are credit cardedare those for getting hold of cuttings and past articles whichcome at $1.95. Apparently 'cuttings' will ultimately be includedin the non-US subscription price. Ah, so there will be one then?
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http://www.fastnet.co.uk/scotland/
This is an online news service that posts a pick of the bestScottish news stories each day. It's neither flash nor full ofgraphics but a nice, neat little service to use.
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http://www.pa.press.net/
As with most online wire services, you need to subscribe tothe Press Association's site. However, at present it's free andonce you're in this is a good source of news, sport, weather andTV info. Headlines are all that's on offer but updates arrivefast and the site is very handy for checking if that officerumour about tax on fags and booze being scrapped is true ornot.
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http://www.newspage.com
Pick a subject, any subject... and before you can say 'thenetwork's slow today' the latest news is delivered to yourdesktop Ü from aerospace and defence issues to healthcare,banking, finance, the environment, media, travel, computerhardware, interactive media and, you've guessed it,Internet-related issues. Stories are accessed either by categoryor search option and listed hierarchically by section andsubsection as well as what's new. NewsPage is also the publicface of several daily, customised business news services, thesort that big corporations, like the one that brings you thismagazine, stump up big bucks to be on the end of. Details ofthese services can be gleaned by clicking on the Individual Incoption. Then try checking the list of sources and see howgenuinely thorough it is. Careful, your brain might explode. Notmuch happens without NewsPage knowing about it.
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http://www.newslink.org
To quote: Featuring 705 newspaper, 444 broadcast, 669magazine and 577 special linksî and rising, Newslink is auseful, if undiscriminating gateway to every conceivable exampleof online mass media (if that isn't a tautology, which it is!).In addition, NewsLink has compiled a research report calledTomorrow's News Today which examines the marketing strategies ofpublishing online. Selected preview highlights are available byemail.
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http://www.poptel.org.uk/morning-star/
Apparently, the Morning Star is the only English-languagesocialist daily newspaper in the world - but I guess there's notmuch call for them these days. Still publishing a printed editionand with daily news online this is still a useful resourceespecially as much trade union news is buried in our newspapers.The site could do with a good spell check but the usual page oflinks is quite comprehensive, comrade.
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http://www.latimes.com/
Ritziest news source in Southern California strikes out instyle on the Net. Quality graphics and constantly updated newsfrom the Associated Press, as well as Hunter, the floppy earedgolden retriever search engine. The newshound who drops apersonalised copy of the paper through your door on request.
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http://www.obsolete.com/thereal/hotwire/index.html
A lovely example of streamlined style, this is a quicklybrowsed round-up of stories from theCaribbean Times, which alsoincorporates the African Times. It has a general spread ofBritish interest material as well as lead stories from around theworld, but rather strangely neither the home page nor any of thearticles are dated. An oversight perhaps?
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http://www.amraf.co.uk/gazette/
A little parochial perhaps if you don't live in Hackney butit was the first London local paper on the Internet. It's not abit like Eastenders online, though obviously it has a cockneykind of flavour. What it really needs now is a Webmaster toupdate it Ü sort y'self out.
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http://www.realaudio.com/contentp/abc.html
Another site for which you'll need RealAudio. Hourly newsfrom this American network, plus commentary from Peter Jenningsand Johnny Holliday doing sports.
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http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html
The top stories from Japan's most popular daily, AsahiShimbum, are available in English here.
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http://www.usatoday.com
This is a much better beefed up version of the American dailythat's been online for some time.
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http://www.cnn.com/
This is, naturally enough, the Net version of Ted Turner's24-hour cable news network and associated media mogul projects.It is one impressively huge, free news service, updated everyhour, fully utilising graphics, sound and video clips with itemshotlinked to relevant sites. Exceptional.
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http://www.mediatel.co.uk/
Updated daily press releases on UK media news.
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http://www.m2.com
This service is an extension of M2 Communications' pressrelease distribution service. It's free to access and tends tohave the latest from the big-name communications corporates. Theactual press releases are listed in amongst a whole load of otherinformation, so just follow the link that says NewsWeb.
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http://www.reednews.co.uk/let/
It's highly unlikely that having your local paper on theInternet is going to stop you from buying it on the way home andreading it over tea. Still, this is a good stab at puttingtotally text-based local news up on screen. It's there if youwant it.
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http://www.webpage.com/hindu/
The online edition of India's national newspaper.
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http://sun.bucknell.edu/~boulter/crayon/
Diddy self-customised newspaper delivered each day to yourelectronic door. Select areas of interest from pre-selectedonline news sources (all free), opt for graphics either inline(it's prettier) or as links, call it all something newspaper-likeand wait for it to land on the mat.
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http://www.usa.ft.com/
Boss business newspaper, the FT, not to be confused with thePink 'Un is experimenting with the Web, putting up the day's topstory, a daily article taken from the technology pages,news-in-brief and a round-up of reports from Europe, the Americasand Asia/Pacific. No comment. Go look for yourself.
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http://www.record-mail.co.uk/rm/
This is the first British national tabloid to be published onthe World Wide Web and, in super soaraway success terms, a realtribute to Scotland's popular press. Lively alliterative localstories, sport, your stars, fashion and features - it'sentertaining and not at all tacky, but that doesn't mean it's notabsolute pish!
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http://www.padd.press.net/
As with most online wire services, you need to subscribe tothe Press Association's site. However, at present it's free andonce you're in this is a good source of news, sport, weather andTV info. Headlines are all that's on offer but updates arrivefast and the site is very handy for checking if that officerumour about tax on fags and booze being scrapped is true ornot.
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http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/webjou.htm
WWW Daily is a highly comprehensive list of newspapers thathave some presence on the Internet. Indexed under 'daily','weekly' or 'speciality', it also lists the publications with Websites and those available via Gopher and Telnet. An indispensibleresource for those who are tired of the Sun, you'll also findpapers from Poland, Mexico and Costa Rica alongside the moreusual Telegraphs and Times.
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http://www.sjmercury.com/
Another fine american paper putting up international,national and local news stories online.
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http://www.newsdesk.co.uk
Newsdesk's multi-lingual online news and information serviceprovides journalists, consultants and industry analysts withupdates in the IT and Telecommunication industry.
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http://nytimesfax.com
The New York Timesfax is an eight-page, condensed version ofthe paper normally distributed by fax. This, the electronicedition, can be downloaded daily and viewed with Adobe Acrobat.Acrobat is also available here, free.
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Gopher:gopher.igc.apc.org/11/headlines
Ecologically aware news Gopher service from the Institute forGlobal Communications. Stories cover issues such as nucleartesting, refugees, corruption, racism, government policy changesand Third World crises.
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http://www.pathfinder.com/@@fPra2QAAAAAAAFcQ/time/
Daily news shorts from US Time, some with hypertext links tofurther information. These bulletins are concise but deliver theday's main international stories on one page.
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Gopher:info.umd.edu:925/11/
These up-to-the-minute news snippets are little more thanheadlines from CNN's stories of the day.
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Gopher to: ftp.voa.gov/1
As far as free online news goes, this one from the Voice ofAmerica is quite good. You get daily feeds from stories broadcaston its international shortwave network, as well information aboutits other media activities.
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This Gopher covers news of the United Nations' involvement ininternational affairs. This service is updated five times perweek.
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http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/news.html
This guide from the University of Helsinki in Finland offersa veritable smorgasbord of free lunches courtesy of theInternet's news providers. We love that word free, usedthroughout this huge comprehensive list, but ultimately you'llneed to pay to receive the quality, quantity and currency you'vecome to expect from other media.
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http://www.clarinet.com/
Clarinet is a high quality subscription news serviceproviding newsgroup access to such big guns as Reuters,Associated Press and Newsbytes. A single user subscription costsabout $40 per month, or cheaper if shared across a site.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk
To access this great free service, you'll first need toregister for a pin number. Once in, the information availablemakes an acceptable alternative to print, and doesn't blackenyour fingers. It's far quicker than when it started, thanks to anew T1 link, but still slower to flick through than the paper.
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http://www.service.com/PAW/home.html
The on-line version of a free newspaper covering themuch-documented Palo Alto area in California. Outsiders will findthe format more interesting than the content.
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http://www.infi.net/pilot/
Daily local news, weather and classifieds from the VirginianPilot newspaper. No, it's not an aviation ezine.
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http://go2.guardian.co.uk
Only Thursday's Online section and special arts features arebeing made available by this innovative UK national newspaper, atthis stage. Use its key word search engine to get back-copy bysubject or author without having to scan through reams of paper.
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A great-looking, streamlined site with plenty ofcross-referencing. There's a guide to Dublin, including livepictures of O'Connell Bridge, updated every 30 seconds. You cansubscribe to the Email Edition, which is a digest of thenewspaper, published Monday to Saturday and delivered to youevery morning.
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http://www.scotsman.com
Scotland's national broadsheet has at last arrived on theInternet. The main story of the day is accessible to all, butyou'll need to register to read the rest of the paper's content.This includes daily news, features, business and sports coverage.In addition to the paper's normal output, the Internet editionfeatures a discussion forum, an online crossword (with hints) anda very useful archive of past stories. There's also a weeklyreaders' Web site chart. Don't be put off by the Scottish-ness ofthe paper, there's plenty here that's of interest to everyone,even if you're a wee Englishman.
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