The Web can provide a flood of information on news and events every minute of every day. Rather than simply channeling that flood, NEWSWEEK editors will continuously filter it to find the most important stories and concepts for our audience. Throughout every day, the new NEWSWEEK homepage will feature four high-interest story packages, embracing everything from politics to international affairs to health developments or business news. In every case, NEWSWEEK will bring a discerning, selective eye to bear, but only after casting as wide a net as possible. We will embrace the best work of other journalists around the Web and the most thoughtful questions and comments of our readers. Our mission is to create a forum for a continuous – and continuously worthwhile – conversation about key events and issues.

Every day, journalists, thinkers and pundits from around the world publish work that is worth reading. Part of our mission, as we see it, is to provide our readers with easy access to the best of that content while still providing our own take on the coverage. The new Intelligence Aggregated feature does that and more, placing coverage from other sources at your fingertips while also mapping the spectrum of what we and other news sources have to say on important or simply interesting issues of the day.

With the new Newsweekopedia section, we have arranged decades of great NEWSWEEK coverage and commentary by topic, providing easy access to a wealth of information on everything from Google to immigration reform. As we break and cover news, NEWSWEEK editors will provide easy-to-find links to related Newsweekopedia topic pages, giving you a quick way to learn more about the events and ideas shaping our world each day.

Taking advantage of the instantaneous nature of the medium, we will feature comments, questions and thoughts posted by NEWSWEEK readers to our twitter feed, sometimes in response to a question posed by NEWSWEEK editors, sometimes in connection with a story or commentary we have already published.

Insight needn’t always come in the form of a lengthy article or column. Every day, NEWSWEEK editors will select people, groups or concepts in the news and ask you, our readers, to weigh in. A daily play on NEWSWEEK’s popular Conventional Wisdom feature, Serious Fun is intended to be a thinking person’s diversion, something that satisfies both your Webby sweet tooth and your hunger for deeper discussion and understanding. Express your opinion and then join the discussion on each topic.

You know the Web is full of informational gems – nuggets of insight and knowledge all too often impossible to find amid the minute-by-minute updates of the mass media. Every day, NEWSWEEK editors will seek out those jewels and deliver them to you, whether they were published on a site here in the U.S. or halfway around the world. Check In the Know every day to be more informed and more enlightened.

Everyone is busy, so we are making it easier than ever to keep up-to-date with the great journalism published every day via our News/Week archive index. Missed the great column we ran last week in Health or the hot politics story we linked to? Just select the day in question and weÕll give you the top three items from every section.

We have taken other steps to make it easier to find the great coverage and commentary published every day.