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Kidon Media-Link
I was alerted to this listing by David Dunkley at the WTO. Kidon Media-Link lists 18,437 newspapers and other news sources from around the world. Newspaper, magazine, television, radio, and news agency...
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Chipwrapper – Search UK newspapers
Chipwrapper is a Custom Google Search Engine that searches across the UK’s major national newspapers: The Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The...
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Ask updates news service
Ask (http://news.ask.com/) has updated it news service to ‘Big News’. Search results look very much like Ask’s web search with an option to narrow by category and suggestions on other types of...
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Live.com updates news interface – but only for the US
Following Live.com’s announcement about its revamped news results, I waited with bated breath to see the new improved service in operation. Alas, nothing happened and after several days of monitoring...
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Chipwrapper introduces time-slices
One of my favourite news sites, Chipwrapper (http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk/), now offers an option to search for articles within a specified time period. Chipwrapper is a Google custom search engine...
View ArticleSearch and the UK’s regional press
If you are a serious news junkie like myself, you may find Martin Belam’s recent series of articles on the UK’s regional press of interest. The articles cover topics such as the provision of RSS (not...
View ArticleRSS and Twitter feeds from the Financial Times
The title says it all. This page lists all the RSS and Twitter news feeds from the Financial Times.
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UK Historical Directories and Newspapers
Someone has just contacted me via Facebook asking how they could track down a company in London. Not a difficult piece of research you might say but the time period was the 1890s! One resource that...
View ArticleMurdoch to charge for online Times and Sunday Times
News International has announced their pricing plans for two of their UK online newspapers - The Times and the Sunday Times. The charges will start in June and users will have to pay £1 for a day’s...
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Earthquake Alerts
If you are looking for up to the minute news on earthquakes it would seem that Twitter beats the mainstream news media even when major shocks have occurred. Phil Bradley has carried out a comparison of...
View ArticleFactiva discontinues pay as you go service
Factiva is discontinuing its pay as you go option for occasional users as part of a “strategic refocus”. Instead of an annual fee of $69 plus a per document charge of $2.95, there will now be a fixed...
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Debunking Euromyths
Those of us living in the UK have become accustomed to sensational headlines in the British press warning us that the European Union (EU) is about to ban British cucumbers, sausages, cheese, church...
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