Best Online News Service

Awards the best online service focused on current awareness, as opposed to breaking news. Service may be from original publishers or distributors, and must clearly be focused on the delivery of news.

Alacra Pulse, Alacra, Inc.

The Alacra Pulse Platform monitors thousands of carefully selected news feeds and blogs and extracts actionable intelligence in near-real-time. Alacra's Applied Knowledge Extraction turns web content into an idea generation and current awareness service for financial professionals and corporate executives.

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Global Issues on Context, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning

Global Issues in Context offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. Not a pro and con database, Global Issues in Context ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural and headlines in world hot spots. It provides information seekers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues and events while highlighting global connections and the interdependence of all nations.
Global Issues in Context focuses on broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation and global warming, as well as more specific events and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues, such as genocide in Darfur, product safety of Chinese imports, sectarian violence in Iraq, changing weather patterns across the globe and disaster recovery in Indonesia and New Orleans. It also includes detailed information on nations to provide a foundation for cross-cultural studies and, International periodicals and news sources that bring additional insight and currency.

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NexisDirect, LexisNexis Group

NexisDirect is a comprehensive news research/alert solution for users who want web-like ease-of-use and comprehensive premium content. With a simple interface and advanced answer discovery tools, NexisDirect searches 20,000+ news sources, enhanced by a full complement of company, industry & biographical intelligence reports with links to a wide array of open-web-sites.

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