New York Times and BBC Make Improvements

Posted on October 1, 2008

The good news is that the web keeps changing and web tools keep improving. The bad news is that it can be hard to keep up to date with all the improvements - even with your favourite and well-used sites like the New York Times and BBC.

So here is a quick hit list of some of the tweaks and tune-ups you may have missed:


NEWS SITES

The two top news media sites on the web - the New York Times and the BBC - are also always adding new features or improving their fare.

Check out the New York Times Topics at http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/index.html for an alphabetical listing of thousands of news topics. It has news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files going back to 1981.
The Times also has a popular news blog called the The New York Times Lede at http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com. It now has new relevance with the current economic crisis -- plenty of background and links to breaking stories, even from rival news sources:

Similarly, the BBC offers its own Topics page at BBC In depth at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/default.stm. Dozens of BBC news dossiers from 1998 to the present. An excellent way to get background, leads and timelines on major stories:

The Beeb also provides a selection of the latest top video and audio stories plus background dossiers and links to its major programs at BBC Video and Audio at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/video_and_audio/default.stm. And if you are really pressed for time, there is even a single click for a one minute world news summary.
 

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