Chicago is My Home

13
Jun

No Time For the New York Times? Chicago’s Newser Comes to the Rescue

Author: Adam Fendelman, Category: Business

CHICAGO – Newser, which is a Chicago-based online news synthesizer that scans Internet news and summarizes the best stories from a hundred news sources, announced on Thursday the launch of a new feature called “NY Times in 60 Seconds”.

“Finally there’s a way to read the New York Times without having to, well, read the New York Times,” said Newser founder Michael Wolff in a Thursday statement.

“NY Times in 60 Seconds” will read the New York Times for you and select the must-read stories people will be buzzing about daily. It will then compile that content into a summary stored in a New York Times grid for quick scanning.

Thursday also marked the launch of Newser’s “Best of the Glossies” and “Pundit Watch” grids. These are daily news grids mentioning top magazine stories and provocative opinion pieces.

For Newser users craving local news, Newser has also added local streams for more than 70 U.S. markets and 16 international, English-speaking cities and RSS feeds. As well, Newser Local has local news and weather, AP sports coverage and restaurant and nightlife reviews via Yelp. Newser is a service from Chicago-based HighBeam Research.

By Jenna Zizzo