News Sites
Adapted from a page by Paul Sundberg

News search | Newspapers | News magazines | News agencies | TV news sites | Radio news sites | Maps | Cartoons | Summaries | News comedy


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NEWS SEARCH ENGINES

Google News site - searchable database of only news websites
 

ON-LINE NEWSPAPERS

TOP 10 NATIONAL U.S. NEWSPAPERS -  by circulation
1
USA Today
2 The Wall Street Journal*    (paid subscription necessary)
3 The New York Times*
4 The Los Angeles Times*
5 The Washington Post*
6 The New York Daily News
7 The Chicago Tribune*
8 Newsday
9 The New York Post
10 The Houston Chronicle

* Also in "Top 10 Best US Newspapers" by the ColumbiaJournalism Review

The Christian Science Monitor (respected nationally-distributed newspaper, especially for foreign news)

List of other US papers (Yahoo!)

INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS

The Herald Tribune (international English-language paper)

List of international & US newspapers (American Journalism Review)

BRITISH NEWSPAPERS

The Guardian (sympathetic to the Labor Party)
The Independent (the UK's newspaper of record)
The London Times ('The Times')

LOCAL CHAMPAIGN-URBANA NEWSPAPERS

The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana)
The Daily Illini   (of the University of Illinois)>
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center   (left-of-center local news group)

ON-LINE NEWS MAGAZINES

The Economist (UK)
Newsweek
Time
U.S. News (and World Report)

NEWS AGENCIES / CLEARINGHOUSES: the Freshest News that every other source uses

Associated Press (AP) - Breaking News
Google News - compilations of major news stories taken from multiple sites
Reuters (major British news agency, primarily financial)
United Press International (UPI)
Yahoo! News

ON-LINE TELEVISION NEWS NETWORKS

ABC                         ABC News video clips
CBS
CNN                         CNN NewsRoom (Turner Le@rning)
FOX
MSNBC
NBC
PBS (News Hour)
list of US television network sites (American Journalism Review)

ON-LINE RADIO NEWS

BBC (London) BBC video clips
NPR (National Public Radio) - click on Listen with Real Audio or Listen with Windows Media (only on PCs)
VOA (Voice of America)
WILL (Champaign-Urbana's public station) - click at top on "Listen to WILL-AM live online via RealAudio" - check for news times

List of US on-line radio sites (American Journalism Review)

MAPS

MapQuest.com maps (used by Yahoo! and others - has maps of every country and continent)
Maps on Other Websites (U. Texas)
The Map Guide! (links to map sites by region)
Virtual Tourist world maps - click on an area for more detailed map

POLITICAL / SOCIAL CARTOONS

Daily Editorial Cartoons (Cagle)
This Modern World - by Tom Tomorrow (cartoonist on the left)

EXAMPLES OF NEWS SUMMARIES

Microsoft SLATE - Today's Papers

NEWS COMEDY

The Daily Show - with Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
The Onion - a newspaper parody