News websites and academic boarders

[Trout]

Hi, kids!

I'm currently putting together a little research on news websites.

Can you fine message board types provide a little guidance on what sites many of you visit, as a less-than-scientific straw poll?

Where's best for on-line news, other than the BBC?

Secondly, I'm aware a few boarders are academic types. If you want to read about your field on-line, where do you go?

I'm keen to find out if there is a particular place (or places) students/staff of the halls of academia go on the web for news.

Subjects might include science, the law and so on.

I'd be fishily grateful for any help!

- Trout

[Banners]

I click to The Register several times a day, although that is more of an IT news site. The BBC is my default Home Page.

M@

[Slippery PD]

Obviously myself and Mr Banners work in the same industry.  Theres also Reuters and Bloomberg which I also frequent, every now and then.

Slips  

[WoD]

Yahoo for general news.

MSN sucks for news IMO due to its front-end but we use it for quick indications on market and exchange movements.

Computer Shopper (PcPro, etc.) site for IT news, etc.

[Trout]

Thanks for those, guys!

Would be keen to have a few more. It's for a meeting I have, when I want to list a bundle of news sites and seem knowledgable.

A tall order! :-)

- Trout

[Dan Kelly]

news.google.com / co.uk for a nice news gatering source...

I'd add Arstechnica.com to the tech sites.

Dan

[Art]

I usually end up looking either at BBC or the Guardian, for details and analysis, or at yahoo news, which tends to be an aggregate of all kinds of sources, including AP and Reuters, which is pretty much taking it direct from source.

Metafilter picks up a lot of news, and I tend to link to stuff through there.

[Banners]

Seevral people I know use NewsNow which aggregrates news from various other news sites.

(This is opposed to the NewSnow site, which pertains to something completely different).

M@

Link: http://www.newsnow.co.uk/" target="_blank">NewsNow

[Quirkafleeg]

"Please do my homework for me..."

Anyway I tend to go to BBC first for anything... and the Guardian (their news by country summary is very usefull)

If it aint there I hit google

I used a couple of other sites for links to news features, arts features, reviews etc but that probably out of remit as it's not really 'news'

[GordonR]

The Daily Mail and Fox News websites give me all the daily info I need to know on how an evil coalition of terrorists, gypos, asylum seekers and the French are plotting to take over the world, using dirty bombs constructed in top secret nuclear labs in Syria, Iran and some travellers' sites in Essex.

[Tordelbach]

Why I should assist your evil schemes is beyond me, but for Archaeology news (for such is my profession) I use the appropriately primitive but regularly updated 'digest' Archaeologica.org.

For more general science news, the excellent Nature.com.

[Art]

Oh yeah, and Pravdas good as well...

Link: http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/14974_alcohol.html" target="_blank">The healing power of alcohol misleads and kills pe

[Art]

Theres only one real news source you need...

Link: http://www.veritasparty.com/index.php?page=archive.php&type=news" target="_blank">The straight talking party

[ming]

I'm still dithering in academia (DNA stuff).  I get my online news from the Grauniad and occasionally the Economist (but I have a paper subscription to that which I use more).

Academic news?  Nothing specific for general news, but I get e-mail updates from Nature and Science, and if there's anything tasty, I can go and check up on it further.  Other than that, I use GenBank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) a fair bit, and I tend to keep an eye on the main journal websites for my field (which I won't bore you with, Troutster).

I don't frequent any general science news sites, but if you come up with some good ones, let us know!

[Bad Andy]

Google news search

Guardian Website usually prevents me from working for a while