There are APIs like Daylife, NYTimes, Guardian, even Zemanta.<p>What would your idea API for the news look like? What's missing in the existing solutions?<p>Images? Video? More customization? More analytics and number crunching abilities?
Let me send a URL and retrieve the unique news story that it's a part of, or perhaps multiple news stories with confidence intervals.<p>I don't know of a single API that currently does this.