There are a few books with lists of words and kanji compounds found in the news. Like this one, this one, and this one.
However, unless one wants to spend a lot of time doing data entry, they don't lend themselves well to modern flashcard programs, both online and off.
I was wondering if there were web pages and sites that might have this kind of thing, so the words can copied more efficiently into one's flashcard program?
I suppose there are potentially two categories of words, ones that are perennially in newspapers (political, economic, and crime related terms), and ones that try and capture the current zeitgeist (popular people, recent incidents, names of places where things happened.) Both types would be helpful.
One with definitions and readings would be best. English would be ideal but not required.
On a related note, what would you search for on Google to find this kind of thing? I went along these lines:
新聞の最近よく使っている言葉
... But it didn't get me much.