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General News Sources

  • 1st Headlines -News from 99 newspaper, broadcast & online news sources. 
  • ABC News Online
  • AJR Newslink-- provides comprehensive links to newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting resources, online columns and a job line.
  • AlterNet -- "is an online magazine and information resource where pressing issues are subject to examination and debate." Excellent.
  • BBC News --check this out for a British slant on the news, also the best global coverage.
  • CBS News
  • CNN -- Online Cable News Network.
  • Des Moines Register -- Iowa's newspaper.
  • Documents in the News
  • DocuTicker -- a daily update of new reports from government agencies, ngo's, think tanks, and other groups.
  • International Herald Tribune -- see what the rest of the world reads.
  • Internet City Newsstand--free full-text newspapers and magazines, including links to international newspapers.
  • NBC News
  • News Hub--this service checks out all the other news services and links in new and interesting stories every fifteen minutes. Particularly heavy on technology stories, but there's a lot of other kinds of news as well.
  • Newspaper Index -- websites of newspapers from all over the world. It often has an English language edition too, but you may need to BabelFish it.
  • NewspaperLinks -- maintained by the Newspaper Association of America, with links to daily and weekly newspapers.
  • New York Times -- America's newspaper.
  • NPR Online -- National Public Radio maintains this news site.
  • Pacific Islands Report -- news from countries in and around the Pacific Ocean.
  • Pandia Newsfinder -- presents current news from around the world.  Includes search capabilities and an online tutorial for effective internet searching.
  • QC Times -- newspaper for the Quad Cities, IA and IL
  • Tribnet
  • TruthOut -- newspaper articles by topic.
  • USA Today
  • Vanderbilt Television News Archive -- Backfiles of texts of every network newscast, going back for years. Runs about one week behind.
  • World News Forecast -- for any region of the world, the World News Forecast tells you what scheduled events are upcoming which may shape the news for the coming months.
  • World News Network --an excellent site that not only gets you to today's news internationally with links to region's newspapers, but also arranges topics with links not only of news pertinent to that topic, but includes links to organizations, journals, companies and more. Excellent statistics as well. A site that more fully reaches for the true potential of the internet to meet informational needs.

 

 

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