http://info.fuw.edu.pl/gw/0/gazeta.html
An experimental edition of Poland's biggest daily, printed in Polish.
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http://uttm.com/
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.
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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 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.
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http://www.nytimes.com/
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?
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http://www.fastnet.co.uk/scotland/
This is an online news service that posts a pick of the best Scottish
news stories each day. It's neither flash nor full of graphics 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 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.
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http://www.newspage.com
Pick a subject, any subject... and before you can say 'the network's
slow today' the latest news is delivered to your desktop Ü from aerospace
and defence issues to healthcare, banking, finance, the environment, media,
travel, computer hardware, interactive media and, you've guessed it, Internet-related
issues. Stories are accessed either by category or search option and listed
hierarchically by section and subsection as well as what's new. NewsPage
is also the public face of several daily, customised business news services,
the sort that big corporations, like the one that brings you this magazine,
stump up big bucks to be on the end of. Details of these services can be
gleaned by clicking on the Individual Inc option. Then try checking the
list of sources and see how genuinely thorough it is. Careful, your brain
might explode. Not much happens without NewsPage knowing about it.
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http://www.newslink.org
To quote: Featuring 705 newspaper, 444 broadcast, 669 magazine and 577
special linksî 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.
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http://www.poptel.org.uk/morning-star/
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.
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http://www.latimes.com/
Ritziest news source in Southern California strikes out in style on
the Net. Quality graphics and constantly updated news from the Associated
Press, as well as Hunter, the floppy eared golden retriever search engine.
The newshound who drops a personalised 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 quickly browsed round-up
of stories from theCaribbean Times, which also incorporates the African
Times. It has a general spread of British interest material as well as lead
stories from around the world, but rather strangely neither the home page
nor any of the articles 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 but it was the
first London local paper on the Internet. It's not a bit like Eastenders
online, though obviously it has a cockney kind of flavour. What it really
needs now is a Webmaster to update 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 news from this
American network, plus commentary from Peter Jennings and Johnny Holliday
doing sports.
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http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html
The top stories from Japan's most popular daily, Asahi Shimbum, are
available in English here.
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http://www.usatoday.com
This is a much better beefed up version of the American daily that's
been online for some time.
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http://www.cnn.com/
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.
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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' press release distribution
service. It's free to access and tends to have the latest from the big-name
communications corporates. The actual press releases are listed in amongst
a whole load of other information, 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 the Internet is
going to stop you from buying it on the way home and reading it over tea.
Still, this is a good stab at putting totally text-based local news up on
screen. It's there if you want 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 your electronic
door. Select areas of interest from pre-selected online news sources (all
free), opt for graphics either inline (it's prettier) or as links, call
it all something newspaper-like and 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 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.
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http://www.record-mail.co.uk/rm/
This is the first British national tabloid to be published on the World
Wide Web and, in super soaraway success terms, a real tribute to Scotland's
popular press. Lively alliterative local stories, sport, your stars, fashion
and features - it's entertaining and not at all tacky, but that doesn't
mean it's not absolute pish!
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http://www.padd.press.net/
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.
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http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/webjou.htm
WWW Daily is a highly comprehensive list of newspapers that have some
presence on the Internet. Indexed under 'daily', 'weekly' or 'speciality',
it also lists the publications with Web sites and those available via Gopher
and Telnet. An indispensible resource for those who are tired of the Sun,
you'll also find papers from Poland, Mexico and Costa Rica alongside the
more usual 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 service provides
journalists, consultants and industry analysts with updates in the IT and
Telecommunication industry.
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http://nytimesfax.com
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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Gopher: gopher.igc.apc.org/11/headlines
Ecologically aware news Gopher service from the Institute for Global
Communications. Stories cover issues such as nuclear testing, refugees,
corruption, racism, government policy changes and Third World crises.
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http://www.pathfinder.com/@@fPra2QAAAAAAAFcQ/time/
Daily news shorts from US Time, some with hypertext links to further
information. These bulletins are concise but deliver the day'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 than headlines
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 of America
is quite good. You get daily feeds from stories broadcast on its international
shortwave network, as well information about its other media activities.
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http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/meta/travel/res/newsgath.html
This Gopher covers news of the United Nations' involvement in international
affairs. This service is updated five times per week.
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http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/news.html
This guide from the University of Helsinki in Finland offers a veritable
smorgasbord of free lunches courtesy of the Internet's news providers. We
love that word free, used throughout this huge comprehensive list, but ultimately
you'll need to pay to receive the quality, quantity and currency you've
come to expect from other media.
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http://www.clarinet.com/
Clarinet is a high quality subscription news service providing newsgroup
access to such big guns as Reuters, Associated Press and Newsbytes. A single
user subscription costs about $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 to register for
a pin number. Once in, the information available makes an acceptable alternative
to print, and doesn't blacken your fingers. It's far quicker than when it
started, thanks to a new 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 the much-documented
Palo Alto area in California. Outsiders will find the format more interesting
than the content.
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http://www.infi.net/pilot/
Daily local news, weather and classifieds from the Virginian Pilot 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 are being made
available by this innovative UK national newspaper, at this stage. Use its
key word search engine to get back-copy by subject or author without having
to scan through reams of paper.
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http://www.irish-times.com/irish-times/paper/0722/index.htm
A great-looking, streamlined site with plenty of cross-referencing.
There's a guide to Dublin, including live pictures of O'Connell Bridge,
updated every 30 seconds. You can subscribe to the Email Edition, which
is a digest of the newspaper, published Monday to Saturday and delivered
to you every morning.
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http://www.scotsman.com
Scotland's national broadsheet has at last arrived on the Internet.
The main story of the day is accessible to all, but you'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 edition features a discussion forum, an online crossword (with
hints) and a very useful archive of past stories. There's also a weekly
readers' Web site chart. Don't be put off by the Scottish-ness of the paper,
there's plenty here that's of interest to everyone, even if you're a wee
Englishman.
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