The Online World resources handbook

Your electronic daily news http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/9.html
France Presse, Xinhua, Reuters, and the like.
Check links to broadcasting sources of news in many languages at
http://www.markovits.com/broadcasting/. Choices include BBS, Channel 4 (United
Kingdom), Deutsche Welle (Germany), Teletekst from NOS (Holland), Scandinavian
broadcasters, Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, CBS, Radio Japan, the
Internet Multicasting Service, US based radio stations, CPB and NPR (USA), Radio
Canada, Radio France, Radio and TV schedules from Finland, and more.
Inter Press Service (IPS) has a World News Index with news in English,
Dutch/Flemish, Finnish, German, Kiswahili, Norwegian, Spanish,and Swedish.
Voice and video, please!
Current Awareness Resources via Streaming Audio & Video is a compilation of links to
audio/video services that can be of use to the information professional who monitor
current events. It focuses on news/public affairs services that are available in English. In
most cases these links will take you directly to the service (it will start playing
immediately) or to within ONE click.
Sites offering voice and video news through the net include:
canalweb.net (France). Example: "Tin Tuc TV": Franco Vietnamese bilingual
Internet TV channel dedicated to cross cultural issues (philosophical, ethnic and
social): reflexion, tolerance, satire. Every fortnight on canalweb.net.
BBC (England) online radio broadcasts. Example: Broadcasts in Central Asian
languages, like Uzbek, Kazakh , Azeri, and Russian.
Here are some other interesting choices: The Online radio stations worldwide;
Publicradiofan.com has a database of program listings for hundreds of public radio
stations around the world; Current Awareness Resources via Streaming Audio
& Video.
News by mail
Some newspapers and news sources invite you to receive their news by email, but not
all. Whenever this is the case, check out Web2Mail in Chapter 11.
Searching the news
The News Index news only search engine indexes current articles from hundreds of
sources from around the world. It is not an archive, but a resource for finding more
information on current topics you are interested in. The news is broken up into various
topics such as business, politics, sci tech, and opinion. Use it to read different versions of
a story, and hopefully derive some semblance of what actually occurred. Use it to find
multiple sources if your first choice want to charge you for reading it.
By following a large number of papers, you can follow ongoing stories as they
happen. Use it to monitor what goes on within a topic of interest. Search for a topic by
submitting keywords. Hits containing all keywords are listed first. Click on the link to get
an article's text.
Daypop searches and indexes over 6600 news web sites and weblogs for current
events just for today. You can limit your to news, weblogs, headlines, or all pages.
Search results include the title of a site, brief excerpt, and a cache link with the cache
date. (Cache refers to a copy of the page being kept on the daypop server.)
We typed the search word "Arendal," which is the name of a small 40,000
inhabitants town in Norway, and received a long list of hits, also from local
newspapers...
Interestingly for some, the Advanced Search option lets you limit a search to one or
several languages (like English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian. You can also limit your search to one or several geographic
areas, ranging from United States to the United Arab Emirates.
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