There is plenty of news sources out there for you to try, depending on what kind of news you are interested in. If that is international relations, conflict studies, country information etc., the following two tools are very much worth a try.
The first one is News Now at https://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/, London UK. A categorised listing of the latest news from thousands of sources, updated continuously up to a few minutes ago with tens of thousands of stories per day. News is arranged by country name and also main topics. Items are ordered by date, newest on top.
You can also choose for just Top news or Popular news, something I never do (I still cannot imagine an algorithm deciding for me what I consider top news). Very interesting are the little “i” icons next to each source with information and editor’s note about the source. Highly recommended!
The second one I’d like to share is a fantastic tool created by the Joint Research Center of the EU: European Media Monitor NewsBrief at https://emm.newsbrief.eu. A categorised listing of tens of thousands new messages from up to 50.000 sources, updated every ten minutes with a popularity graph on top.
News is arranged by EU policy area, themes (such as crime, natural disasters, conflicts, security, ecology etc) and countries. The news is in all languages and for each language are translations available. EMM offers also en RSS feed, subscription service and there is an Android app as well.
Each message has an entity extraction service which is a great help in determining relevancy. The link ‘more articles’ will lead to a list of more articles about this particular subject. EMM is a fantastic news aggregator and highly recommended!
That’s it for this week. Interested in more tools and sources for OSINT? Have a look at the Internet Resource Discovery Toolkit at http://rr.reuser.biz.
