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What is the best news site on the internet? I am looking for the best formatted site. I don't want to create an account to personalize.

Just looking for a site I can go to skim through the headlines (World, US, Tech, Sprots, etc...) quickly and get out. The less ads the better.
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daviddelony | 2 years, 10 months ago
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I particularly like the New York Times: nytimes.com

Their article skimmer is really cool: http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/

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csandoval | 2 years, 10 months ago Report

Wow! Thanks for letting me know about the NY Times' article skimmer. It is precisely what I am looking for.

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inawhisper | 2 years, 10 months ago
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www.newsbusters.org
www.washingtontimes.com
www.wsj.com

Use these to counter-balance the left slant at the NYT, BBC, Guardian, etc.

No one site does a truly excellent job, and skimming won't give you a balanced view. It takes work to compare stories and authors. And now you have to filter out author's commentary and bias.

This wouldn't be necessary if news was the product of real journalism, instead of the opinion and commentary we've gotten accustomed to.

News is supposed to tell us what happened, not what to believe.

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philipy | 2 years, 10 months ago
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If you just want to quicky skim something to see what happening in the world, the front page of the New York Times is very good.

http://www.nytimes.com/

You'll see enough from the snippets and headlines to know if you want to read any more. In the top half you'll see snippets from the most important and interesting stories, and In the bottom half of the page there are the headlines in all the major areas like sport, tech, politics, nicely grouped so you can just quickly glance at the sport and tech if that's all you're interested in.

Another good news site is the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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csandoval | 2 years, 10 months ago Report

it seems that NY Times is leading in online news user experience - it seems that they get "it". Their front page looks good - this is what I am looking for. Thank you,

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misinheritance | 2 years, 10 months ago
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Newsvine and Huffington post are very good sites that are both online without a written publication. The latter is growing very quickly as a reputable newsource, and I personalize like the layout. However the post tends to be a slightly left-of-center in the way they deliver the news, so that's something to keep in mind.

Nowpublic.com is an interesting concept that is worth time to look it. People can publish their own articles and other people can view and rate them.

Hope that helps.
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jeffhoard | 2 years, 10 months ago Report

I personally find the Huffington Post to have a great design, I find myself clicking their bookmark regularly throughout the day to read headlines

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samsonrocks | 2 years, 10 months ago
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My 3 fav. Sites are :

http://www.icue.com/

and

http://www.variety.com/

and

http://www.slate.com/

My choice is based on:

* Design
* Ease of use
* Interactivity
* Use of technology
* Innovation
* Content

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Samson

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jdman | 2 years, 10 months ago
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I use Twitter to keep up with all the latest news, as long as you follow the right people/newsgroups/businesses that you like to get your news from. But if you want even less hassle I use Buzzwire on my BlackBerry and that takes 0 time to set up and works great.

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alivonpizzle | 2 years, 10 months ago
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Best of the Internet "Mashup"

http://www.jimmyr.com/

Political "Blogsphere"
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/06/whos-who-in-the-political-blogosphere.html

Also "Drudgereport"
http://drudgereport.com/
It has a lot of links at the bottom for more news websites

These are websites that basically combine lots of different news articles into one website. Hope this kind of helps..

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cameronj | 2 years, 10 months ago
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I like Google News - google.com/news - for a quick overview

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colonial butros | 2 years, 10 months ago
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google news and topix.com. On topix you can set it to local news

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dnatureofdtrain | 2 years, 10 months ago
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I think the best and simplest for now is this one:

Century Tels news
http://centurytel.myway.com/

Also don't forget mahalos first page has news on it too!.
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The Janesville, Gazette online..
http://www.gazetteextra.com

Its the link to my local gazette in Wisconsin, USA but it covers the same basics that most news sites do.. I also run a news sharing blog

You can also get the news you want in your inbox via Google Alerts, and Yahoo has news alerts too via keyword...

Yahoo news
http://news.yahoo.com/

Google News
http://news.google.com

Aol news http://www.aol.com

DNatureofDTrain's Favorite News Articles.. you can search it in the search engines if interested but that loads slow cause I throw videos on it.

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