Several NGOs, researchers, journalists, individuals actively monitor newspapers to track issues that they are work on or issues they are interested in. This is a time consuming and laborious process. However, the web version of newspapers and magazines this task has been made easier. It enables individuals to track news and archive them on the web in easily accessible new categories. Users do this by defining vocabularies and writing filtering rules which are used to select relevant articles from news sources.
| A few useful features of NewsRack are:
- Personalized: define categories and organize them in the way you want and monitor only the sources you want.
- Archived from the long-term: news archived in your categories and stay there as long as you want them.
- Multilingual: can track news in Hindi, Kannada, English and other languages simultaneously.
- Media Coverage analysis: possible to do media coverage analysis by defining appropriate filtering rules.
- Output RSS feeds: output RSS feeds for every category.
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| In addition to this, since the gathered news is made public, a much wider section of the public can benefit from the efforts of existing users without having invested any effort for he same. Some of the newspapers that are benefited by using NewsRack are: Hindu, New Indian Express, Deccan Herald, Times of India, Indian Express, Sify News, Rediff on the Net, NDTV, and CNN IBN. |
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