Online news services provide a variety of ways to keep up with current events. Some of these sites are aggregators that pull in news from different sources and present them to the reader in one place (like Google News or Yahoo News). Other sources have more of a traditional journalistic approach, publishing original stories and providing details on current events.
These sites often have an extensive library of back articles for those who want to get a full picture on a particular topic. They may also offer commentary and analysis, as well as video content such as interviews or sports reports.
Some of these online news services are free and some have a subscription model. Some upmarket publications use a paywall, while others take a hybrid approach and allow readers to access general news for free but require registration to read more specific or in-depth stories, with the aim of starting them on the path towards ongoing subscriptions.
Some websites focus on entertainment news, providing a mixture of celebrity interviews and fun quizzes as well as more in-depth features on movies, TV, music and books. A good example of this is Entertainment Weekly.
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