NEWS Converter

Extract text from NEWS files


Drop or upload your .NEWS file
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How to extract text from your NEWS file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NEWS file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert NEWS to another file type

To convert your NEWS file to another format, you need KVH NEWSlink or other Compressed software.

Convert a file to NEWS

To convert other file formats to the "Maritime News Archive" file type, you need software like KVH NEWSlink or a similar tool.


About NEWS files

A .news file is primarily a compressed data package used by the KVH NEWSlink service to deliver daily news digests to maritime vessels (ships) and offshore crews via satellite. While these files function as digital newspapers, they are technically ZIP archives renamed to a proprietary extension to interface with KVH Media Group's onboard delivery software. Inside the archive, the actual content is typically stored as standard PDF documents, HTML files, or TXT summaries optimized for low-bandwidth satellite transmission. Users often encounter these files when managing crew welfare data or archiving maritime logs and find they cannot open them with standard desktop software like Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word. Because the file is essentially a "wrapper," the most pragmatic conversion method is often to rename the extension to zip and extract the readable contents directly.

Convert.Guru analyzes your NEWS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted JPG and KGP files.


FAQ

If you want to convert NEWS file to TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN, LOG or NFO, you can use KVH NEWSlink or similar software from the "Maritime News Digest" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to NEWS, try KVH NEWSlink or another comparable tool in the "Maritime News Digest" category.



The NEWS Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our NEWS converter.