Topic detection and tracking (TDT) refer to the technologies and techniques in analysing and handling the vast amount of information arriving continuously from the news steam. Some issues in news monitoring regarding interface design are considered. In this paper we present the techniques and works done in TDT domain. We discuss the named entities approach used in document representation and in user interface. Finally,we present the suggested approach to improve users' performance and to facilitate them to perform an effective TDT task. Keywords: Topic detection and tracking; bag of words; named entity; interface.