Most major businesses post their press releases on their own sites. Not all releases get picked up by other agencies. The search engines will be your best source of data.
I subscribe to Google Alerts for a number of people and topics and get a list of articles fed live to my Google Reader account. There are many new search engines under development. Some regular static searches of spezify.com and URL2 may give you some new information about people you are interested in.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.