NewsWatcher was a series of freeware and open source newsreader software for Apple Macintosh computer systems. Running on System software versions 7.0 until 10.5, the original NewsWatcher was written by and , and later forked by others into a number of versions such as MT-NewsWatcher (Multithreaded NewsWatcher), VA-NewsWatcher (Value Added NewsWatcher)[1] and YA-NewsWatcher (Yet Another NewsWatcher).