More than 61% of the world’s internet users read daily web news and 99% of the world’s influencers are online. News is one of the highest growth categories on the internet at more than 15%. But the world is stuck in cultural and linguistic silos of, for example, French at Le Monde, China at People’s Daily, Arabs at Al Jazeera, Americans at CNN, Yahoo or NYTimes and the like. The reason is because there is no one source that organizes it all, so Al Jazeera or Le Monde is viewed as sufficient, as there is no way to cross the language divide.

If the world’s web news readers were to cross language and cultural borders with ease so that there was no need for these silos then we could suddenly all be on the same page...the Newstin page. These are the features that we have created to cross this divide.

• NewstinMap (categorical navigation)
  • Shows depth of Newstin structure
  • Visual navigational tool
  • Displays top-down organization
  • Long tail of news content

• Cross Language Navigation
  • Jump the language barrier and find news specific to your interests from foreign publications
  • Read comments and editorials from Newstin users around the world, written in other languages
  • Topped off with an “on the fly” translator to make foreign content readable

• Social Newstin
  • Discussions based around topics
  • Comment on stories and discussion groups (also part of the cross language capability)
  • User Profiles and world wide communication

• Webmaster Tools
  • News widgets
  • Add your favorite sources to our database

• Hot Topics
  • Let Newstin’s newsroom team bring you the latest and hottest issues from around the world in our “Hot Topics” section of the portal

• Semantic web searching (Discovery)
  • We have set up a system to portray how we think, not in keywords, but in ideas and themes.
  • Each search or track brings relevant and similar “optional” categories that relate to the content which you are searching