News & Current Events
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com
Website for ABC News.
Alternative Resources on the U.S. "War
Against Terrorism"
http://www.pitt.edu/~ttwiss/irtf/Alternative.html
Llisting of alternative news sources, commentaries and analysis of the
"war against terrorism". Affiliated wit the ALA, IRTF and SRRT.
Arab World News
http://www.arabworldnews.com/
From the World News Network, concentrating on news concerning the Arab
World.
ArabNet
http://www.arab.net/
Website is part of the Saudi Research and Marketing Group, and it's aim
is to "provide the most comprehensive online resource on the Arab world,
primarily dealing with countries in the Middle East and North Africa."
(from website)
Associated Press News
http://www.ap.org/
Click on a state to find out the member newspapers and broadcasters
of that geographic region; read about the history of the press, including
a timeline, AP Pulitzer Prize winners, and journalists that have died
on
the job; facts and figures, press releases, and media industry news;
and a FAQ. (LII)
AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/
An online magazine
with a progressive political focus, "publishing grassroots success stories and inspirational
narratives alongside hard-hitting critiques of policies, investigative
reports and expert analysis," emphasizing "workable solutions
to aggravating problems." The site features blogs, a public discussion
arena, and podcasts, audio interviews, and video clips. Full-text articles
archived starting in 2000. A project of the Independent Media Institute,
which is "dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent
and alternative journalism." (LII)
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Website for BBC News.
CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml
Website for CBS News from CBS Broadcasting Inc.
Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com
News and commentary in the online edition of the international newspaper.
Published daily, Monday through Friday. The searchable archive goes back
to 1980 (search, with abstract is free, there is a charge for full-text). (LII)
CNN
http://www.cnn.com
Website for CNN News from Time Warner.
CNN Headline News
http://www.cnn.com/HLN/
CNN Website dealing with Headline News.
The Crisis Papers
http://www.crisispapers.org
An Anthology of the Best Political Opinion and Commentary
From the Progressive Internet (from website)
Daily Source
http://www.dailysource.org/
Our mission is "to provide high quality news and information from
leading sources across the Internet to help the public more effectively
utilize their time, money and power to benefit themselves, our country
and our world."
Faces of the Fallen
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/
This site contains brief profiles of "U.S. service members who
died in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom." Each
profile includes a photo (where available), age, date and circumstances
of death, military unit, and a map locating the soldier's hometown. Arranged
in chronological order by most recent deaths; also searchable and browsable
by age, year of death, home state, military branch, or by Iraq or Afghanistan
groupings. From the Washington Post. (LII)
EuroNews
http://www.euronews.net
"EuroNews is Europe's [television] news channel covering world news
from a European perspective in a choice of seven languages. EuroNews
broadcasts simultaneously in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese,
Russian and Spanish." The site provides video clips of recent stories
in the areas of general news, business, sports, entertainment, technology,
and more. Also provides weather information. Not searchable. (LII)
FactCheck.org
http://www.factcheck.org/
FactCheck.org, a project sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy
Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The project is designed to
monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by numerous politicos in
their speeches, debates, news releases, and the always important,
television advertisements. (ISP)
Google News Archive Search
http://news.google.com/archivesearch
"Search
articles stretching back more than 200 years, from the archives of Time
Magazine, The Guardian, CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York
Times, the Washington Post and aggregators like LexisNexis and
Factiva." (Google)
MSNBC News
http://www.msnbc.com/
Website for MSNBC News from Microsoft.
Newslink: Newspapers
http://www.newslink.org/news.html
The resource for online newspapers around the world. The newspapers section
lists around 5,400 papers and is searchable by title or location and
is also indexed geographically. In addition the U.S. papers are indexed
by state, frequency of publication, and publication category. There are
links to magazines, broadcasters, and news services worldwide. There
is a separate section for campus newspapers. Also has many sources for
journalists, including a database of job listings. (LII)
Online Newspapers
http://www.ipl.org/reading/news/
This directory of online newspapers is browsable by geographic region.
In addition to a link to the site, language, publisher, and frequency
are given for each entry. If available, features of the paper are also
listed. Searchable. Maintained by the Internet Public Library. (LII)
Pro Publica
http://www.propublica.org/
"ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative
journalism in the public interest."
Public Agenda Online: The Inside Source for Public Opinion and Policy
Analysis
http://www.publicagenda.org
"Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research
and citizen education organization." Its site presents "policy
options and public opinion behind critical public concerns" such
as abortion, crime, gay rights, illegal drugs, race, and the right to
die. Extensive information on each issue includes an overview, facts
and trends, different perspectives, links to news stories, and results
of public opinion polls. (LII)
US Newspaper Archives on the Web
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html
These pages provide links to United States news archives available on
the Web.
(from website)
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com
Website for USA Today
WikiNews
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
WikiNews is "
a group of volunteers whose mission is to present reliable, unbiased,
relevant and entertaining News." (from website)
WorldNews
http://www.wn.com/
World news from the World News Network.