News

Click on the XML icons to find RSS feeds. (What's an RSS feed?)

See also Media for sites from specific outlets (e.g., newspapers, radio networks).

Primary Sources for Breaking News

These sites take news from from many different sources. Most of them function as news search engines, too.

See also RSS Search Engines. For articles in magazines and journals, see Indexes.

Yahoo News - Wire services and major newspapers. Provides RSS feeds for major categories and for tracking your search terms

1st Headlines - Breaking news from many sources
Ananova - British news site
Ask News
Drudge Report - Links to news stories and extensive links to news sites. Has been accused of sloppy journalism and everything has a rightward tilt. Caveat emptor.
Global Voices Online - Blog that links to international sources for news not often heard in the U.S.
IceRocket News - Provides an RSS feed to track your search over time
Live News Search
Lycos News - Various sources, including Wired
News Now (U.K.)
News Trove
Rocket News
Topix.net - News from thousands of U.S. cities and towns and news on dozens of industries, in addition to the usual world, sports, etc. And all topics are available as RSS feeds!
World News Network
See also RSS feeds and RSS search engines

These sites allow you to personalize what news you see.

Findory - Select news articles to read, and then Findory will start to make suggestions based on your choices
My Yahoo - The news part of the page is actually a Web-based RSS aggregator. If you don't know what that is, see how to read RSS feeds
See also Collaborative News Web Sites, below

By the ubiquitous librarian

NewsCenter - Up to the minute news sources
Real-Time Information - Not everything here is exactly news, but good stuff like sites for tracking traffic, lightning strikes, and airline flights (ResourceShelf)
Speech and Transcript Center
News and Information via Streaming Audio and Video
See also WebCams

These collaborative Web sites allow readers to post links and commentary on the news.

Digg - Technology news, mostly; allows tagging and grouping links by user or groups of friends
Kuro5hin - "Technology and culture, from the trenches"
Metafilter - One of the biggest and oldest collaborative sites
Memepool - Also available sorted by subject
Newsvine - Making new contributions is known as "seeding the vine"
Plastic.com - A compendium of some of the best stories on the Web, with readers' comments
Reddit - Users suggest news stories. As you use Reddit, it starts to suggest stories for you.
Slashdot - Their motto is "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." A communal Weblog for coders, hackers, et al.
See also Social Bookmarking Sites, Weblogs, and Fark in Fun News