Give me something new in the middle of the road.
July 1, 2009 7:27 PM   Subscribe

I need new Web sites to replace my old ones.

Here's a few things in my favorites:

CNN
MSNBC
Slate
The New York Times
Boing Boing
The L.A. Times
Salon

They all seem to take up a specific niche in my media window (general news, essays and articles).

I want to replace these sites listed above with something else. For example, is there a mainstream news site as good as CNN and MSNBC for general news? Is there a daily magazine site as good as Slate?

I'm not interested in scattershot aggregators like Digg, Reddit or Google News. Nor am I interested in axe-to-grind sites like Fox News.

Make with the suggestions.
posted by Cool Papa Bell to Media & Arts (14 answers total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
Reuters?
posted by gwenlister at 7:33 PM on July 1, 2009


BBC? or The International Herald Tribune?
posted by starpoint at 7:42 PM on July 1, 2009


BBC?
posted by jrchaplin at 7:42 PM on July 1, 2009


Arts & Letters Daily?
posted by willpie at 7:48 PM on July 1, 2009


You could always start reading some British papers, such as The Guardian, The Independent, and The Telegraph.
posted by ixohoxi at 7:52 PM on July 1, 2009 [1 favorite]


nthing BBC. They always seem to have stories in their feeds before CNN gets around to reporting on the same ones.
posted by SuperSquirrel at 8:01 PM on July 1, 2009


Seconding Arts and Letters Daily - poke around there for a while and you might find replacements for the others on the list.
posted by Noon Under the Trees at 8:25 PM on July 1, 2009


If you like BB, you may enjoy kottke.org. The proprietor is on vacation right now, but he is usually quite prolific.
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 9:05 PM on July 1, 2009


NPR? Also check out BookForum.
posted by aheckler at 4:18 AM on July 2, 2009




How about some photos?

Try checking out The Big Picture, the prolific high-quality news photography blog. Some really amazing stuff in there. Delightfully, you can use the j and k keys to move between images. If you like that, Rob Galbraith often links to noteworthy photo essays and photojournalism collections. The New York Times Lens blog is relatively new but already is a reliable source of great info. I know these are aggregators, but it's some reliably high-quality content.
posted by Magnakai at 5:57 AM on July 2, 2009


Huffington Post
posted by heather-b at 6:23 AM on July 2, 2009


BBC, IHT, Kottke are all in my RSS feed.
posted by arcticseal at 9:00 AM on July 2, 2009


Asiatimes Broaden your horizons!
posted by IndigoJones at 4:57 PM on July 2, 2009


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