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News Search Engines
These search tools find news from many sources. They
do not find general web pages, only web pages from reliable news sources.
*The five best:
Google
| AltaVista | Yahoo
Advanced Search | Lexis
Nexis News | IHaveNet | BBC
NewsSearch
*News by theme: Columbia
Newsblaster | NewsInEssence
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Search | Canoe
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International | Yahoo
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The best:
Best search tools:
- GoogleNews
The best search engine on the web has rolled out a "beta"
test version of an important new service for journalists -- a news search
tool. You can read the last week's news by topic (World, Business, etc)
or use the search box with the usual powerful Google accuracy.
- Google News Archives
News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical
archives. You can search articles or a timeline of events and articles.
Some of the results from various publications are free, others are not,
but all provide helpful leads.
- Google News Alerts
are sent by email when news articles appear online that match the topics
you specify. Instead of
getting useless web pages you get only reliable news sources.
You can ask for as many as you want and you can request they get sent
once a day or as news happens. Using the advanced search function, you
can even narrow your alerts to a single publication. Be sure to
read the tips to find out how this is done.
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Lexis Nexis News One
of the most comprehensive news database services on the web, Lexis Nexis,
is often too expensive for many journalists and freelancers. But this
free news service offers
a wide range of recent headlines, background stories, access to wire
services and TV transcripts.
- Yahoo News
Search Yahoo's new tool for searching news doesn't have as many
news sources as Google's 4,500 papers but it offers some special features.
Tabs allow you to compare different news sources and you add some of
your favourite sources. You can also click the purple icon or dashed
line under bolded keywords in the news story to get more related news.
- Yahoo Full
Coverage Yahoo has retooled its news section. Its advantage
is in the depth of its features, themes and backgrounds. A great way
to get a dossier or background on a story you are working on.
- AltaVista News
- World News Com
- WorldPress.org World Press
is an automated headline service, updated every 15 minutes, drawn from
a sampling of newspapers and magazines worldwide. Its main adavnatge
is that the selection is more diverse than the usual fare you find on
Google News or other popular news sites. It also offers a free
email service to keep you up-to-date with the latest news from thousands
of newspapers from around the world, free of charge.
- Findory Like many web news tools,
this website brings you news articles from thousands of worldwide sources.
But what is different is that Findory adapts to show you interesting
and relevant news based on your reading habits, in effect building a
personalized newspaper for each reader. The more articles you click,
the more the main page changes to suit your needs. What is also handy
is that Findory stores the recent articles you have viewed and the news
sources you visited.
- AskJeeves - News Ask
Jeeves, the simple text search engine, also offers a
decent news search tool. Once you get your results, you can also
narrow down the search to news from the last day, week or month. The
International
page also allows
you to search for news from or about a country. Not as sophisticated
as Google News, but you do get some surprising results.
- MSN Newsbot
The UK version of MSN offers news from several countries in several
languages - French, Italian, Spanish -- and easy access to world news.
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IHaveNet World News
One of several websites that use the Moreover newsfeed, this site
has the advantage of giving you easy access to news from dozens of
countries listed on the left-hand side of its page. You can also find
business news by subject,
as well as other topics such as Health and Entertainment.
New generation of news clustering tools:
- Columbia
Newsblaster Columbia University has come up with a better way to
search the news - instead of just a mish mash of headlines. Every night,
the system crawls a series of Web sites, downloads articles, groups
them together into "clusters" about the same topic, and summarizes
each cluster. The end result is a Web page that gives you a sense of
what the major stories of the day are, so you don't have to visit the
pages of dozens of publications.
- NewsInEssence is one of
the new "clustering" tools, this time developed by the University
of Michigan. It tries to find and summarizing clusters of related news
articles from multiple sources on the Web, including the CBC, CNN, and
the International Herald Tribune. You can create your own clusters as
well.
News media companies:
- Search
Reuters, AFP, AP and UPI newswires
- BBC News
Search The BBC has launched a new search engine which has distinct
advantages for journalists. Its general results tend to be of higher
quality than ordinary search tools. Plus you can click on a special
button and get results only from BBC News and the BBC WebSite. The Advanced
Archives search also gives you access to years of BBC online material.
Other resources:
- Executive Library
A convenient, easy-to-read page that gives you the top of the news
sources from around the world -- plus ways to search for more headlines
and stories. The site also offers excellent
research strategy tips with good sites to start your search on US
and Canadian government and business web pages.
- Researchville
An excellent one-stop research site for journalists. The main page allows
you to search several news headline sites, such as Moreover and WorldNews.com
. You can also search
several newswires , dictionaries
and encyclopedias at
once. Other pages let you search some of the best tools for video
and audio archives
as well as still photos.
- CNet
News This news search tools trolls through major American media
sources and gives you results for each newspaper, magazine or TV network.
Included in the search are NBC, CNN, Financial Times, Los Angeles
Times, MSNBC, the New York Times, Salon, Time, USA Today, and the Washington
Post.
- HeadlineSpot
A brand new and top-flight service for journalists that offers a quick
glance at the latest headlines around the world. Its search
box allows you to search ABC, BBC, Yahoo! News
and the Washington Post. You can also do an
international search , search
for photos and for TV
news. Plus many more options and tips. A must-see for busy
journalists.
- Fagan
Finder search News page gives you the option to hunt through many
news pages and the Search
Law page gives you access to many databases.
- RocketNews
A quick way to search through international news sources.
One advantage -- it gives you a neat one paragraph summary of the newspaper
story before you click. You can also limit the search to anytime within
the past five days. You can search by
category and do an advanced
search. For more news tools, see JNet's
Search news page.
- News Views is a free quarterly
journal providing information and unique outlooks on current news, sports,
travel, education, technological and environmental issues. The journal
offers balanced articles and has a global focus. There are also daily
world news headlines, a weekly column and Coffee Break, giving readers
a chance to post their views on the weeks topic.
- Mediaworldnews
- Newslink A veteran web site that
still remains one of the best ways to find newspapers -- especially
in the US, but also worldwide. It also promises to improve its international
magazine search tool shortly; plus a great way to find US radio
and TV stations.
News Highlights:
- AllStarNewspaper
The editor's of Brill's Content, the American media-watch magazine,
pick some of the best in daily news stories, every day of the week updated
at noon. The selection is almost exclusively from the major American
newspapers, but you still get one-stop shopping for some of the top
stories of the day. you can also get the choices emailed to you by free.
- News
of the week The Poynter Institute's David Shedden gives
journalists useful links for a top story of the week. While usually
an American story, the issues are frequently of world importance --
such as the recent China-US spy plane dispute or Mad Cow Disease. An
excellent way to find the best news sources for a current story.
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boxes:
- 1stHeadlines
Fast way to search for US and international news:
- MagPortal
Search for articles right here:
- Bot007 Find news headlines fast.
Searches for the words in the acutal headlines. Also has an
advanced search tool to narrow down news by language and country.
Try it here:
- NewsIndex Fast reliable
way to hunt through hundreds of international news sites. Click
on the link or try it here:
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The rest:
- Excite
Advanced News Search A little known feature of the Excite
portal allows you to search for news on web pages (newspapers and broadcasters)
or newswires (AP, Reuters and others). You can also search for recent
news photos. Best for major international and US stories.
- Spy On It
This multi-task web site allows you to monitor web sites for any changes
(you can even tell it to check for a specific word); to monitor top
news sites (BBC, CNN, International Herald Tribune and Reuters) for
any story you select; and even check to see what search engines are
saying about you. You can have your spy results sent to your email,
your pager or to a web page.
- Newstrawler
Very impressive site with hundreds of options -- search
by country or category, or even personalize it and choose the individual
newspapers you want
- Newbot
Find American and world news -- within six hours
- News Tracker
Create your own news clipping service. Excellent tool -- make your own
"New Topic". Relies on about 300 news sources, mainly
American
- Yahoo News
Search Excellent news search
- Yahoo Full Coverage Great
way to search by topic
- Infojump Limit
your search to published articles in chosen topics -- for example, specialty
magazines.
- Total News Scour
the world's newspapers, or select your own through a Personal Edition
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