Give me something new in the middle of the road.

July 1, 2009 7:27 PM

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 comments total)

Reuters?
posted by gwenlister at 7:33 PM on July 1

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

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

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

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 [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

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

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

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

The Financial Times
The Economist

and for fun:
NewsBiscuit
The Daily Mash
posted by devnull at 4:36 AM on July 2

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

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

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

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