Newspapers, News Services, and
'Zines of Every Ilk

Table of Contents

1) Newspapers

2) News Services

3) Broadcasters

4) Electronic Journals

5) News and Media Archives

6) Journalistic Resources

7) Zines of Every Ilk

NEWSPAPERS

While the following is far from a comprehensive list of the newspapers which are currently available online, it does provide the cream for my morning coffee. Please note that all of the periodicals listed in this hypertext document were accessible at the time the link was added. Please direct any and all comments concerning the links found on this page to <oedipus@hicom.net>

• The New York Times on the Web
  1. Books of The Times: book reviews from The New York Times
• Dawn, Pakistan's most widely circulated English-language newspaper
• Mail & Guardian an excellent weekly periodical from South Africa/Azania.
• The Militant: a Socialist newsweekly published in the interests of working people;
• The Saint Petersburg Times, the English-language newspaper of St. Petersburg, Russia, published every Tuesday and Friday since 1993 by Independent Media
• Boston Globe Online
• Chicago Tribune Online Edition
• Christian Science Monitor
  1. Quick Text Index to The Christian Science Monitor
• The Washington Post
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Jerusalem Post (Isreal)
• Hongkong Standard
• Socialist Worker (UK) Online
  1. Socialist Worker (UK) Archive
• Electronic Telegraph
  
  
• looking for more news? try Cathy's Newstand, which contains a very large listing of newspapers
  
  
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News Services

• The Omnivore, a daily news and information service, is an extremely well organized, speech-friendly, and, hence, indispensible resource
  1. Global and Regional News
  2. Omnivore by Subject
  3. Omnivore Weather
  4. Omnivore's List of Ezines
  
  
• the American Journalism Review's NewsLink is an excellent, albeit oft speech-hostile, jumping-off point... if your browser or AT supports re-formating or is DOM aware, limber up your fingers now!
• Yahoo News: a collection of news resources
  1. Reuters News Headlines
• Press Association News Index a British site which, distressingly, grows ever more inaccessible...
• News for Nonprofits from the Philanthropy News Network
  
  
• The Daily Brief
  1. Today's Daily Brief
  
  
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Broadcasters

• Listen to the latest BBC News Bulletin (RealAudio feed)
• Listen to the latest CBC Radio Newscast (RealAudio feed) (updated hourly)
• Listen to the latest headlines from NPR News (RealAudio feed)
  
  
• BBC Radio Online via Betsie, the "BBC Education Text-to-Speech Internet Enchancer", a parser that reformats the BBC's pages so as to make them easily navigatible to cybernauts utilizing speech output devices, such as screen-readers
  1. BBC Online
  2. BBC News
  3. BBC World Service
     1. Latest News Stories
     2. Listen to the latest News Bulletin (RealAudio feed)
  4. About Betsie
• CBC Online (this site is extremely slow going when accessed with Lynx and speech)
  1. CBC Radio Pages
• National Public Radio Online (text-only version)
  1. NPR full graphics version
• WNET is an acronym for Newark Educational Television... Yes, Virginia, like the Giants and the Jets, it's really based in New Jersey...
• NJN: The New Jersey Network
• WGBH Boston (text-only home page)

• PBS: The Public Broadcasting System
  1. The American Experience
  2. Great Performances Program Schedule
  3. Masterpiece Theatre
     1. Current Masterpiece Theater Broadcast Schedule
  4. Mystery! (text-only version)
     1. Mystery! (graphical version)
     2. Mystery! Program Schedule
  5. Online Newshour (text-only)
     1. Online NewsHour (graphical version)
  6. NOVA Online
     1. NOVA Television Schedule
  7. Scientific American Frontiers
  
  
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Sports-Related "News" Services

Disclaimer: Whilst the title of this sub-section is "Sports-Related News Services", it could just as well be "A Rogues' Gallery of Sites: Essays in Inaccessibility"

• CNN/SI
• ESPNET SportsZone
  
  
• NBA.com the official NBA website
• College Football World Wide Web Site
• Nothing But Net, the rather pathetic website of my beloved Knicks is became defunct sometime in 1997... and, being a superstitious fan, i can't help thinking that this, perhaps, is an ill-starred omen, or at least a harbinger of things to come... (as of march 2001, i haven't been proved wrong yet)
  
  
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Electronic Journals

• Digital Freedom Network
• HOST, An Electronic Bulletin for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
• Psyche: "an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness"
• The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy (EJAP)
  produced by the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University
• Electronic Antiquity: Communicating the Classics
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
• Main Street South Africa
• Post Modern Culture (University of Virginia)
• The Scientist: "The News Journal of the Life Scientest" from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
  1. The Scientist catalogue of plain ASCII files
• UnCoverWeb contains records describing journals and their contents
  
  
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'ZINES, E and Otherwise...

• Aquarium Magazine fishy-fishy-i-o
• The Atlantic Monthly: "A Magazine Devoted to Politics, Society, the Arts, and Culture since 1857--and a Web Site Devoted to the Same since 1995"
• The Austin Chronicle is a rather a mixed-bag, in which the useless and the obvious brush elbows with the obscure and entrancing.
• Beatrice
• Bleksem--"Electric Pamphlets" from South Africa
• Boston Book Review
• Boston Review
• The Carnegie Magazine
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Cultronix
• Discover Magazine
• The Electric Edge: the online edition of The Ragged Edge
• JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
• from an accessibility standpoint, The Mississippi Review's online edition is horrendous, but as a source of new literature and criticism, it is indispensible...
• The New Yorker
• OutLook Magazine
• Scientific American
• Surrounded By Morons: An E-Zine for Teen Writers
• The Utne Lens
• Verbiage Magazine "showcasing great short fiction since 1994"
  
  
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News and Media Archives

• The Media History Project
  
  
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Journalistic Resources

• Editor & Publisher Interactive
• Journalism Online at WorldBiz.Net
• WGBH Educational Foundation
  1. WGBH Educational Foundation/Access Instructions
  2. WGBH Educational Foundation/Access Instructions
  
  
  
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Terminal Index

1) return to Camera Obscura

2) An American Exegesis

3) Blindness-Related Resources on the Web

4) Civitas: Link Locally, Think Globally

5) Caveat Lector

6) The Virtual Museum

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