Comments | cellio: recommend general, skimmable news site?

cellio

recommend general, skimmable news site?

Jan 05, 2015 18:01

I've been using cnn.com for my daily national/world news roundup, but they just redesigned the site and made it ugly and bloated. So I'm in the market for a news site that isn't ( Read more... )

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nancylebov January 5 2015, 23:28:13 UTC

News.google.com is a list of clickable headlines.

cellio January 6 2015, 00:04:21 UTC

Oh! Huh, I should have thought to look there. Thanks.

cahwyguy January 6 2015, 15:41:20 UTC

I second news.google.com. If you want to get rid of a lot of the autorun videos, take a look at this link (which was in last Saturday's news chum). The major problem with Google News is that it sometimes links to sites with paywalls. In that case, you can often just search for the headline to find the information on another site. One nice things about google news is that you can define categories of particular interest to you.

unique_name_123 January 6 2015, 00:46:09 UTC

Cleanest one is Fox News. Snicker.

magid January 6 2015, 03:32:22 UTC

I often find myself browsing the BBC.

cellio January 7 2015, 01:56:00 UTC

Thanks for the tip!

eub January 6 2015, 09:02:55 UTC

Have a look at the Seattle Times' text-only page, specifically the "Nation & World" section. It's very lightweight as a web page -- zero images, almost no Javascript, just good old-fashioned text links, no ads, brilliantly fast (It works out much better on mobile than their supposed mobile site.) Besides the Seattle Times' own stories, it includes stories from the AP, from the New York Times, and maybe other sources.

(Weaknesses: Won't have any Pittsburgh. It really is text-only and occasionally you'd have liked an illustration image to go with a story. Not much science, and their Tech is mixed in with the Business. I have a fear that the whole page has only survived as-is due to being overlooked, and will get killed when a manager notices it ( ... )

cellio January 7 2015, 01:55:36 UTC

That's very readable, thanks! I hope it continues to fly under the radar.

I get my Pittsburgh news from an actual daily newspaper -- yeah, I know, how archaic, but I still like it. So that's already covered.

ext_2952140 January 7 2015, 00:18:26 UTC

What does the Guardian's US edition look like to you?

http://www.theguardian.com/us

(I post this away from home on little netbook with five broken keys - thus pithy!)

Davïd

cellio January 7 2015, 01:53:25 UTC

Thanks -- that's quite readable on the computer! (Haven't checked the phone yet.)

Five broken keys? Ouch. And they're probably the oft-used ones, hence stressed, hence broken.