Newzit logo and a screen grab image of the site (Photo: DMG Media) It first emerged in the mid-1990s, most obviously in the form of The Drudge Report, which, though now in decline, remains popular with millions for its curt headlines linking to its favourite stories of the moment. Newzit is a 2021 version of one of the oldest ideas in the history of the consumer internet: news aggregation. This feature gives the site a celebrity news feel clicking on a name uncovers dozens of the latest stories on that person, from multiple news sources.
Politicians Boris Johnson and Priti Patel appeared last week alongside Kim Kardashian and Emma Raducanu. Paywalled news sites are marked with an orange tag.Ī ticker running across the top of Newzit lists the 30 “most searched for right now” individuals. Newzit selects the 60 most-read stories of the moment and typically offers eight versions of them, so readers can compare, say, The Independent’s take on a climate story with that of The Telegraph.
