Society - News - Top of the Web

Find reports and perspectives about current events and issues; access sites that aggregate news from a variety of sources; these news portals offer a wide variety and of news items from many sources and thus less reliance on the editorial bias/spin of any one news source; some news portals offer customized news pages, advanced searches, blog searching, or user comments

• Google: News; aggregates news stories from thousands of sources; clean design is easy to browse; customizable; the computer algorithm to choose and order news items was written by human developers who thus define the selection and placement of stories on the news service Web pages
• My.Yahoo: Customizable news page; you can choose content and subscribe to feeds (RSS); choose layout and colors; news items include a wide variety of news sources as well as weather, stocks, and integrated calendar (connects with your upcoming.org events, for example)
• Drudge: Matt Drudge's picks for top news; includes a generous collection of links to news sources and columnists; Drudge pioneered the online "Citizen Journalist" ethos and his page has played a big role in showing the way for integrated online news presentation for more than a decade--an amazing accomplishment for one man and one Web page
• Topix: Topix.net--local news for the world; find news or blog entries related to a topic, city, or zip code; advanced search allows you to fine-tune your search; hierarchical breakdown allows you to look at or link to news pages based on subjects or geographic areas; news sources include many wire services (e.g., Associated Press, Reuters, major newspapers) as well as blog entries

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