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A UK site with an alternative take on reporting the news. Forget the dull news and take yours served with a dash of opinion, humour and wit.
To quote: Featuring 705 newspaper, 444 broadcast, 669 magazine and 577 special links and rising, Newslink is a useful, if undiscriminating gateway to every conceivable example of online mass media (if that isn't a tautology, which it is!). In addition, NewsLink has compiled a research report called Tomorrow's News Today which examines the marketing strategies of publishing online. Selected preview highlights are available by email.
We offer free online press release submission and distribution services. Also you can find useful press release samples, templates and How to write a press release tips on our web site. Huge number of different categories to submit your press release.
An experimental edition of Poland's biggest daily, printed in Polish.
Up To The Minute is an online version of American TV's Mr Big, CBS News, which means that if there's no US angle, forget it. Hardnose it ain't, concentrating on TV reviews, exercise and pregnancy columns, and family values, making you thank your lucky cheese for Jeremy Paxman. In between the arrogant agenda, however, is some half-way interesting stuff including aerospace expert Bill Harwood reporting on the latest from the shuttle, the diss-master himself Dennis\Cunningham with film gab, and muso news from Wired's Pete Leyden. VDO enhanced for you lucky tekkies.
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 selected highlights from a new edition of the Times Higher Education Supplement and the weekend brings the Sunday Times, low on graphics but well presented and a damn sight lighter than the amassed bulk of several hundred inky, unwieldy sections landing with a thud on the breakfast table. The information is free and all the more enjoyable for that, with a decent-sized smattering of stories, reviews, letters, opinion and comment from every section of the paper. It's also very fast. On top of this there is a Personal Times option which lets the reader choose only the bits he or she wants to look at. This is the only operation that takes any time, dragging, as it does, all the relevant sections and keywords out of a database of the whole online newspaper. Interestingly, the site is best viewed in either Netscape or Microsoft's Internet Explorer and, rather irritatingly, its overall ease of use and no fuss functionality make it a site worth returning to, even for someone who has despised the newspaper's agenda and poorly written prose in the past. And lastly, if the news is of no interest, there's always the Times crossword, which is almost an institution in itself.
You can't get into The New York Times without registering and registering with The New York Times involves inserting your credit card number into the appropriate box. At no point prior to this is the user advised of charges for accessing any areas of the newspaper but the terms and conditions state they reserve the right to charge at any time. A bit sneaky eh! So the paper is unlikely to recruit readers who are not familiar with it already or those who won't want to look at it everyday. They'll all be scared off. More usefully, the services that are credit carded are those for getting hold of cuttings and past articles which come at $1.95. Apparently 'cuttings' will ultimately be included in the non-US subscription price. Ah, so there will be one then?
As with most online wire services, you need to subscribe to the Press Association's site. However, at present it's free and once you're in this is a good source of news, sport, weather and TV info. Headlines are all that's on offer but updates arrive fast and the site is very handy for checking if that office rumour about tax on fags and booze being scrapped is true or not.
Apparently, the Morning Star is the only English-language socialist daily newspaper in the world - but I guess there's not much call for them these days. Still publishing a printed edition and with daily news online this is still a useful resource especially as much trade union news is buried in our newspapers. The site could do with a good spell check but the usual page of links is quite comprehensive, comrade.
The top stories from Japan's most popular daily, Asahi Shimbum, are available in English here.
This is, naturally enough, the Net version of Ted Turner's 24-hour cable news network and associated media mogul projects. It is one impressively huge, free news service, updated every hour, fully utilising graphics, sound and video clips with items hotlinked to relevant sites. Exceptional.
Updated daily press releases on UK media news.
Boss business newspaper, the FT, not to be confused with the Pink 'Un is experimenting with the Web, putting up the day's top story, a daily article taken from the technology pages, news-in-brief and a round-up of reports from Europe, the Americas and Asia/Pacific. No comment. Go look for yourself.
Newsdesk's multi-lingual online news and information service provides journalists, consultants and industry analysts with updates in the IT and Telecommunication industry.
The New York Timesfax is an eight-page, condensed version of the paper normally distributed by fax. This, the electronic edition, can be downloaded daily and viewed with Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat is also available here, free.
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