Newser, an online news service, debuted today locating and linking to up-to-date news stories, video, audio and photos from vast news resources across the web.

Newser is a collaboration of HighBeam Research and Michael Wolff, the Vanity Fair columnist and author of the Internet classic, “Burn Rate.” Caroline Miller, the former editor-in-chief of New York Magazine, is Newser’s founding editor and serves as Newser’s editor-in-chief.

The development of Newser was the subject of Wolff’s column in the October issue of Vanity Fair. “Every advance in technology,” writes Wolff, “has seen the invention of a new form of news. Linotype got us mass circulation newspapers 125 years ago; television, the network evening news 60 years ago; cable, 24-7 satellite news 25 years ago. So what’s Internet news — what’s the new news thing?”

He goes on to ask: “What if you could become the Amazon of news? The Google of news?” Newser, Wolff said, means to be the dominant online news brand.

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