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Bernadette McCarver Snyder
A six-day-a-week electronic “newshare” that is free on a trial basis. Set up by the writers whose work it features, it covers most general topics covered by a daily newspaper with wide coverage of foreign news.
Offers recorded segments of news and commentaries in Hebrew and English, as well as Hebrew broadcasts of news live from Arutz Sheva 24 hours a day (except the Sabbath and holidays). Requires a RealAudio player; you can download RealPlayer from the site if you don’t already have it.
The Associated Press online. Requires free login, but then offers full access to the AP news wires.
An online regional news service from the San Francisco Bay area that offers these options: Datebook, Entertainment News, General News, Media News, and Legal News. The site also offers info about the news service itself and a fax/email Headline Service.
Business News distributes news to the media locally, nationally, and worldwide. This wire service offers customized news-release distribution to the news media, online services, the Internet, and the investment community.
Get all the top news stories at your fingertips, or delve into weather, sports, science and technical news, travel, style, show business, health, and earth topics. Many stories have accompanying QuickTime video segments. This site also lets you in on what CNN has to offer on television.
You can view game scores and statistics, get sports news, participate in fan polls, interact with other sports lovers, get in on fantasy ball games, visit the ZoneStore, get health and fitness info, and much more. And you can get instructions for making ESPN SportsZone your startup page.
Federal Communications Commission online. Serves as a forum for public discussion concerning FCC issues (including broadcasting). Contains current legislation, full text of relevant speeches, agenda, and the FCC daily digest. Also lists of email addresses to which you can send comments and concerns about television.
Provides news summaries about business, sports, and headlines. Features industry spotlights for the business surfer.
You can get top news, weather, stock quotes, even comics at the News Channel, a branch of the Infoseek service. Search all the newswires and national sources for your topic, or jump directly to other news sources, such as The New York Times.
The Dutch public broadcasting system’s Web site. Includes program information and other information about the Netherlands.
Offers information about ongoing disasters, historical information about disasters, and links to other disaster sites on the Web.
Provides information on information retrieval from online libraries.
This searchable site offers world, national, and local news; business, sports, and entertainment news; feature columns; and other offerings from the San Jose Mercury News, a newspaper serving the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay area.
You get three things at this site: computer-related photo links, computer-related news at a glance, and hot links (to such sites as alphaWorks and WebTV). The news selections include stories on Internet networking, Netscape Navigator, and Microsoft, to name a few.
You can personalize the MSNBC news page to get the news you want, the way you want it. Or stick with the standard page for a wide variety of news options. You can also choose news audio headlines to hear the news read to you by newscasters (some video and illustrated audio are also available).
Offers a free service that provides access to many online newspapers, periodicals, and so on, around the world every day.
Gives you a daily business briefing, with news from the computing and media worlds, as well as other key industries. Also provides breaking general news and access to CompanyLink, where you can look up news, research, and contacts for more than 65,000 companies. And you can register to create your own individualized NewsPage.
The News option of My Excite Channel brings you this site, filled with news headlines, business, sports, entertainment, sci-tech, nation, world, and lifestyle articles. Sign up for the custom news-clipping service, look through the many pages of news topics, or run a search on the news index.
The Old Farmers Almanac online. Includes weather forecasts for the United States, helpful tips, and other information—just like the hard copy.
Dutch Broadcasting Service. Provides an interface to news and other information off the Dutch wire services. Includes English menus but provides the articles in Dutch.
Provides a free daily news service designed to quickly and concisely deliver coverage of events around the world as they happen (uncensored news, straight from the source and original point of view). Provides many links to other news services.
PR Newswire describes itself as “the leading source of immediate news from corporations worldwide for media, business, the financial community, and the individual investor.” The site seems to live up to this claim, with a long list of contents that’s worth scrolling through.
Reuters, a leading news and information company, fulfills the business community’s and news media’s financial, multimedia, and professional information needs. At this site, you can get online news in these areas or learn more about Reuters.
The Pathfinder Network can take you to a broad variety of news and information: news, money, business, personalities, entertainment, sports, health, living, and family. It can also jump you directly to the pages of publications such as People, Time, and Fortune. This site also offers a free email service, messageboards, chat, and a search feature.
Serves as a resource for radio-station programming and news staffs. Provides ready-for-broadcast sound bites, news, and programming.
Offers ABC Radio news, available with the RealAudio player. Enables you to download audio files of daily and hourly news broadcasts.
South African Broadcasting online. Provides many phone numbers and other information. Includes sports scores and news services.
Provides one-paragraph summaries of current stories and provides a search engine you can use for a more in-depth look.
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