The Google Newsmap (no affiliation to Google Inc) by Marcos Weskamp takes the top stories from Google News and visualizes them in a 2D rectagular grid structure that uses size to show the popularity of the story, and color to indicate both the category (health, entertainment, world, etc) and age of the story. It’s a great way to get a quick overview of the news, and has lots of features to control what categories and countries are viewed.
Randall Hand
Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.