How to Keep Up With the News

If your daily grind doesn't leave you much time to read the entire newspaper, or watch the news every night, don't despair--you can still keep up with and discuss the news at the water cooler so that you appear super-knowledgeable about current events.

Instructions

1. Turn on the news while you get ready in the mornings. You'll hear the top stories in the world in just a few minutes. Switch to morning shows to hear about newsworthy trends and entertainment information.

2. Keep the news radio on during your drive to work or anywhere else during the day. You can download newscasts to your pod, or find news channels that will keep you up-to-date with the current news.

3. Laugh with the late shows. The hosts find humorous ways to look at the news, so you not only keep up with it, you learn to look at it in different perspectives.

4. Read the Letters to the Editor section in your newspaper, if you don't have to read the whole thing. You'll get updated on the previous day's news.

5. Set your homepage to a news website on your PC. Every time you connect to check your email or to work, you'll get a quick flash of the top news stories to help you keep up. You can browse the headlines under different topics, such as World News, Financial, and Entertainment. Or you can click the headlines and get the full stories while you have time.

Resources

• Set your homepage to Fox News.
• MSN provides headlines on their homepage.
• Current Events at Library Spot