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News and stories

France Bienvenue: Recorded conversations on all sorts of subjects. They add a new video each week. Pretty awesome site!
Lafrancebis: Recordings and quizzes to practice listening. Created by a French teacher in Japan.
Radio France International: International news with emphasis on Africa. French news streaming (Ecouter RFI on the right side)
Radio France International, lanque française: Site designed to teach/learn French. They have simplified, but challenging news reports (Le journal en français facile), listening activities (apprendre à écouter, les exercices d’écoute, etc – see also specific listening activities )
JT de France2: Newscasts from a French television station
Radio Canada: Extracts primarily from non-literary sources to enhance listening and reading comprehension skills.
Radio des Nations Unies: Practice for non-literary reading and listening sources. Also provides links to radio sites and podcasts.
TV5Monde: Theme-based news broadcasts and articles.
TV5MondePlus : More clips for listening
Sept Jours sur la planete (TV5monde) : Listening and reading with comprehension questions and activities
Canal Académie: Listening exercises (podcasts), reading and self-testing for comprehension
Conte-moi: Stories from the francophone world
LibriVox : Free public domain books to read and listen to. Example: the fables of Jean de la Fontain
Webradio : National radio station

Innerfrench: Intermediate French podcast.
Banlieue B4: Stories of people who all live in the same building in the suburbs of France (listening)
focus.tv5monde.com: collection of web-reports - it's pretty cool!
http://webdoc.mondoblog.org/ : Blog of journalists in Dakar, Senegal