Find URL patterns in Media Websites

Review 7 media websites via the Google Sites link.

By understanding their URL structures, you can take shortcuts to articles or categories you like to read.

NY Times | Economist | FT | Bloomberg | WSJ | Washington Post

The Economist is a weekly newsmagazine and digital website that covers weekly topics in International Economics, Politics and Finance.

Check out the different categories for articles by URL, this shows that it can be done by geography, with Europe as an example.

The URL has the base web domain, 

https://www.economist.com/europe
, and then the place name in lowercase letters.

Interesting article on Names in Europe

This article on "Kevin", highlighted an interesting phenomenon in European baby names from 40 years ago and its relevance today in Europe.

The Financial Times is a global newspaper with a digital website that covers daily news on business, finance and economics.

Here are two articles from the Japan RSS feed. The URL structure of the FT shows that topics, categories and names can all be used to find articles of interest to readers. The URL for Japan,

  https://www.ft.com/japan
, shows how a country name can be placed after the domain URL.

SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son hints at succession plans

CEO says successor is someone already working beside him within the tech conglomerate

Markets should watch out for the summer fling

Keep an eye on the yen and other areas of consensus as temperatures rise

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The Wall Street Journal which is a business media website with good articles on US economics, finance and business news, and it has a conservative slant in its opinion page. There is a very good article on gambling addiction, which traces similarities in the experience of people who engage in high-risk behavior on financial trading websites, including cryptocurrency trading, and sports betting websites.

The URL pattern shows the base domain URL and then a parent and child topic. In this case, the URL, https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/, shows the topic of finance and then within that topic, stocks.

The Washington Post is an American media website that publishes news about US politics, world news, and US domestic news. The structure of the website shows how topics are also put into the URL, following the base domain.

This URL, 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/
is for business topics, but readers can also try other topics that correspond to those found on the front page.

Stocks set new record to wrap up first half; here’s what drove markets

Midway through 2025, the S&P 500 has rebounded from months of trade tensions and economic uncertainty that had sent it deep into negative terrain.

On Trump’s tax bill, GOP tries new accounting trick as national debt mounts

Senate Republicans employ an unusual accounting tactic to push Trump's tax bill forward, sparking concerns over national debt and the integrity of the Senate filibuster.

There is an interesting article on an investigation in Chinese attempts to influence local election campaigns in the US. The URL pattern for this shows the article is under the topic of National Security:

    
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/.
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