I would like to aquire content for my website www.italia.com.au. I
would like various up to the minute news articles on various topics
including sport, news, food, fashion etc.. specifically Italian news
in english to be updated automatically on my website, the same as the
following website has http://www.lifeinitaly.com
I would also like to publish in australia various articles on italy
and the italian culture in hard copy print.
I am on a very limited budget, is this possible for me to do? if it is
possible how much do i have to pay to be able to do this? what do i
need to do get it started? thanks

Probably the best method for doing this without affiliating with a
major news organization is by the use of RSS(Really Simple
Syndication) feeds. Most RSS feeds are free, some just to individuals,
and some have a cost for commercial use. I used the search terms news
feeds and RSS feeds and a plethora of infomation will be at your
fingertips including how to incorporate RSS on a web page. This gives
you the look of a professional news site with up to date articles on
various topics without a lot of cost or work. I have included a link
to the Google RSS feed XML so you can see the coding involved.

Here are some links that you may find helpful:
http://news.google.com/?output=rss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rss.html?dwzone=web

Good luck!!