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
- AP: Associated Press; wire service provided to many newspapers; operated as a not-for-profit cooperative; established 1846; headquarters New York City
- Bing News: wide range of news sources; customizable
- 1stHeadlines: table of headlines from a variety of sources; subcategories include business, health, lifestyles, sports, and technology
- Yahoo News: a well-organized breakdown of news categories that is easy to navigate; brings together a variety of news sources; free customization with yahoo account
- 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; his page has played a big role in showing the way for integrated online news presentation since 1995--an amazing accomplishment for one man and one Web page
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