News Sources

Altavista News-- International news constantly updated, searchable and accessible by top headlines and by topic, region, country, and time period, with archives.

Diplomacy Monitor-- From the St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, a fine searchable site that tracks, almost in real-time, online diplomatic communiqués, press briefings, and related official documents worldwide in several languages, with breakouts by issue, region, and nation-to-nation interaction, including in human rights issues.

EINnews-- Very useful global news service for "access to breaking news that is organized within 260+ country, regional, U.S. States and specialized topic sections. EINnews content is derived from monitoring over 4,000 different online sources."

Financial Times-- The famous international business newspaper from London has a really useful search facility, giving access to articles from top source periodicals worldwide.

Global Voices-- "An international, volunteer-led project that collects, summarizes, and gives context to some of the best self-published content found on blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, and videoblogs from around the world, with a particular emphasis on countries outside of Europe and North America." "A non-profit project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society."

Google News-- Excellent portal draws news from thousands of English-language sources worldwide, using Google full-text search technology for constant real-time updating, allowing users to scan headlines and to search in depth. Has searchable archives. International versions of Google News allow country and language-specific searches.

MagPortal-- Well-structured, large, searchable, annotated directory of free magazine articles online, including those in international affairs topics.

MetaGrid-- Directory and search engine for thousands of newspapers and magazines online, by topic, country, or world region.

MSN News Search-- From the Microsoft Network, "with content from thousands of news services, News Search gives you the scoop on the latest events and news stories from around the web."

Newsalerts-- News aggregator that pulls information from many leading worldwide sources into a single website with constant updating, by top stories and interest areas.

WorldNews Network-- Excellent, highly-rated gateway to a very large number of World News Network online news sources worldwide (including specialized ones), by region, country, and topics of coverage, plus links to other local (mainly) English-language news sources. Their WorldNews.com site provides searchable and archived news by country, leading sources (printed and audio), or topic, in many languages. Their World Headlines site spots top news globally, with searches possible by region, country, topic, or media links.

Yahoo! provides worldwide "Full Coverage" of major events, by region, with related links and search facility. Enter your country or topic in "Search Full Coverage" for a search.

•  ABC News International Section-- News from this major American TV network.

•  Abyz News Links-- Links to many thousands of newspapers and other news sources from around the world, those with news content of widespread interest.

•  AllYouCanRead.com-- Searchable directory to access online magazines and newspapers from around the world, by country and category, some free and some with fee.

•  Australian Newspapers Online-- From the National Library of Australia, a comprehensive links directory by title, state, and town.

•  BBC News Online-- World news from one of the most trusted sources, in print, audio, and video. Note the World Service section in many languages and the World Service Newshour (in audio, for live reports on world news).

•  CNN Interactive--World News-- World news and weather from the Cable News Network, including special editions and several languages for the main world regions in CNN  International. See and hear news broadcasts at CNN Video.

•  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-- News from a prestigious source, with much audio and video available.

•  Christian Science Monitor-- Excellent online content from an award-winning U.S. daily with an international perspective.

•  Economist-- The outstanding global news weekly from London, with library and searchable archives. Their Global Agenda feature is a concise analysis of major international issues and events. Note the Country Briefings, summaries with "articles from The Economist, background profiles, forecasts and statistics from the Economist Intelligence Unit, market and currency updates, newswires and links," and the Country Surveys.

•  eFinancial News-- Electronic edition of Financial News, an excellent source for European financial news.

•  Environmental News Network-- Excellent for news, features, multimedia, and special reports.

•  EuroNews-- European news and weather in several languages from EuroNews, a European public broadcasters network.

•  Global Beat-- For journalists and editors who cover international issues, weekly analyses of key global security issues from  research organizations, important official announcements and  speeches, and documents. Has search engine and good links. From NYU's Center for War, Peace, and the News Media.

• Global Security Newswire-- From the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the National Journal Group, daily news and analysis on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, terrorism and related issues, with summaries and links to key articles from news media around the world plus original reporting from Washington and elsewhere.

•  InsideWorld News-- "Collection of country and region web sites providing local news and information to a worldwide audience," with free daily e-mail service on country of your choice. Also offers country portals, country information, and other such links.

•  Institute for War & Peace Reporting-- News, analysis, reports, media programs, free e-mail bulletins, and links about current world conflicts.

•  International Herald Tribune-- This excellent news source from Paris bills itself as "the world's daily newspaper."

•  Inter Press Service-- World news stressing developing countries, from a "global news agency producing independent news and analysis about events and global processes affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations, especially in the [global] South." Focus of the site is on civil society and the South, development issues, globalization, and those excluded from it.

•  KIOSKEN-- One of the very best and complete sets of links to news media worldwide.

•  Le Monde Diplomatique-- World-renown French language newspaper; this link is to the English-language edition with searchable archives.

•  News Link-- Very good links to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, and news services around the world, from "an academic and professional research and consulting firm studying electronic publishing and visual journalism."

•  Newspaper Links-- From the Newspaper Association of America, "links to U.S. daily and weekly newspaper home pages and sections, Canadian and international daily newspapers, newspaper groups, associations and other media organizations...[and] to other sites with links to college newspapers and newspaper archives."

•  Newspaperindex-- Presents the most important online newspapers in most countries of the world. All newspapers listed have "websites with free public access that have a local editorial staff of independent journalists and in most cases a print version as well."

•  New York Times-- Fine searchable international section. Site posts a freesearchable archive of full-text NYT news items back to 1851. Note the Times College Web Site with features (some international) for students and faculty.

•  Online Newspapers.com-- A global listing of thousands, by country, from Web Wombat, an Australian search engine company.

•  Overseas Security Advisory Council-- From the U.S. Department of State, advisories on security-related issues around the world including "Travel Advisories, Public Announcements, daily security related news articles, overseas reports on security and crime incidents, terrorist group profiles, significant anniversary dates, general crime information for cities and countries, locations and contacts at U.S. posts overseas, and updates on new or unusual situations."

•  Paperboy-- Excellent source, with thousands of links by prestige, country, news agency, audio, special topics.

•  Power and Interest News Report-- Excellent "independent organization that utilizes open source intelligence to provide conflict analysis services in the context of international relations. PINR approaches a subject based upon the powers and interests involved, leaving the moral judgments to the reader." Updated frequently on current issues, with archives.

•  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline-- "Daily report of developments in Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, based on news gathered by the correspondents, services and regional specialists of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty."

•  Reuters-- Top world and business news stories from this prestigious agency.

•  Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs-- A daily compendium of links to carefully selected items on security issues in the world press, from the Canadian Forces College.

•  Time -- The prestigious American weekly news magazine, available online in several editions-- United States, Europe, Asia, Pacific, and Canada.

•  Today's Front Pages-- Unusual offering from the Newseum (USA), hundreds of today's front pages from newspapers from dozens of countries, enlargeable and with links to the web sites of those papers.

•  Voice of America News-- News and special reports, printed and audio (in scores of languages), from this U.S. government international service.

•  Washington Post World Section-- With regional news pages, and searchable by countries, topics, or keywords. Also check out the Search the World page for access by country and other features. Note the interactive PostGlobal feature, "an experiment in global, collaborative journalism, a running discussion of important issues among dozens of the world's best-known editors and writers. It aims to create a truly global dialogue, drawing on independent journalists in the countries where news is happening."

•  Watching America-- "Discover What the World Thinks About U.S." with English language translations of foreign press commentary about the United States and its foreign policy, from around the world and with links to the original sources.

•  World-Newspapers-- Searchable directory of online English-language newspapers and news sites around the world, by country, plus magazines by type.

•  Zona Europa: The European Media Site-- Covers all types of media in Europe, with numerous links to European media resources.

•  Zona Latina: The Latin American Media Site-- Covers all types of media and advertising in Latin America, with research data, photographs, event schedules, directories, book reviews, and numerous links to Latin American media resources.