In this era of dying newspapers and internet news, what websites/blogs do you use for news?

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Here's a list of the ones I follow: fivethirtyeight.com, politico.com, Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com, espn.com for sports news, The Wages of Wins Journal for NBA analysis from a sports economist. Oh, and I also regularly check out Google News.

Yes, I'll admit my news sources (including The Daily Show on TV) have a liberal bias. I've dropped into The Corner and The Next Right from time to time to see what people who don't agree with me are saying.

It seems to me that the internet, even more so than cable news, lends itself to getting news from people with similar ideologies to yourself, which can be gratifying when they reaffirm your beliefs, and mystifying when large segments of the population seem to hold different beliefs. I'm as susceptible as anyone to that phenomenon.
 
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by newspaper (delivered daily) and tv news. I sometimes check the websites for either the local newspaper or the local tv stations, as well. But usually I'm either trying to catch a story I missed, looking at weather (and then following links), or looking for a page to link to for an article I read in the newspaper.
 
You just poked at my A+ graded thesis: Internet and the future of traditional media. [;)] To make the 170 pages short, human psychological status changes with the years - Internet is most popular among people up to 45-50 years old. Over that point many people (note, I'm not saying everyone) become traditional or more traditional than they used to be. The newspaper culture (meaning my fat newspaper on a Saturday morning joined by a cup of coffee) will never die. It was proven a number of times via marketing research that audience is ready to switch to Internet mainly during the day and during their earlier years. The older we get, the more we appreciate the feeling of holding the paper. It is also related to the medical side - aging is often joined by eye problems. Glasses are easier than the computer screen. It has also a financial side: a consumer is usually considered wealthier after passing the 45 years point. That`s proven too, many times. A wealthier consumer is easier on subscribing for magazines, newspapers, etc. All this said, the wisiest media these days are those that offer both online content and paper issues. They raise future subscribers. [:)]

I read the local Toronto newspapers and magazines like Economist, Times. I also follow the European media, even closer than the local here.
 
The revenue model for the newspaper has little to do with subscribers.

Craigslist and similar places that give free classifieds were a major hit to our revenue. Obituaries will be next.

We actually have a subscription increase where I work and a robust website and still are hurting. It is believed that if we cross the transitional void in the next five years, we will survive.

The Rocky Mountain News didn't.
 
when I lived in the suburbs and took the commuter train. Wall Street Journal in the morning and the local paper (Chicago Tribune) in the evening. Now that I'm in the city and taking the bus, it's too hard to read the paper (plus my commute is now so short there isn't enough time). I do get the Friday, Saturday and Sunday papers in hard copy.

I now get most of my news from the internet. I follow many of the same sites you do except Krugman and the sports sites. I do read the on-line version of the Tribune for local news and sports, as well as my old home-town papers for my favorite sports teams.

I was bothered by the waste of paper I created every day and made every attempt to recycle my papers, so I don't miss that part of reading a daily paper!
 
Yahoo and LJ.

I use these because, well, there are always links to other sites here. Yahoo is always posting articles by the AP, by CNN, even by internet-sites like LiveScience- it's convenient.

LJ, again, just tons of links from people who share similar interests.

I jump all around from BBC, Fox, CNN, and then to smaller sites like LiveScience and bloggers-who-shall-not-be-named... some radio talk show websites as well.
 
my father is a newspaper guy, always has been, always will be. I used to love reading the paper. For the most part over the last several years my newspaper reading has dwindled to almost nothing. We get a local paper for our little town deliverd on Wednesday, Friday and Sundays. There isn't much too it, but there isn't a good website for my little town out there, or I'd probably use it. As for where I get my news - websites:
cbc.ca, coasttocoastam.com, espn.com, tsn.ca, cnnsi.com, tsn.com, sportsline.com, foxsports.com, nhl.com, nfl.com, nba.com, mlb.com (I work in sports,...so there a few more I am at regularly), torontostar.ca. TV is Daily Show, Colbert Report and CBC Newsworld, NHL Network, NFL Network, The Sports Network, Leafs TV, Raptors TV and The Score. Newspaper is the Clarington This Week, I also receive Sports Illustrated. I'm also in the car quite a bit commuting and listen to talk radio mostly, from there I get the news from The Fan590 (sports), 640 (sports/news), ESPN Buffalo550, 102.1 CFNY and on satellite radio ESPN, NFL Network, NHL Network, MLB, NBA and occasionally 102.1 CFNY.

So, I'm pretty much done with newspapers. I find that the one newspaper I do get sometimes doesn't get read everytime it is delivered. It is such a region that there isn't much to the paper to begin with.
 
I subscribe to two dead-tree newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser (which is great with local news, but abysmal for anything in the rest of the world) and the NY Times (today's ed. is delivered about 5 pm: "Yesterday's news tonight!").

My home page is a custom configuration on yahoo.com, and I get a lot of headlines there. When something appears that's interesting I can read about it. When there's serious breaking news, I go to cnn.com.

I value the papers for more in-depth coverage and the ability to clip out articles, ads, etc.
 
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...plus the Guardian (for much of my of US news), the good ol' BBC, Daily Kos when I want partisan analysis and commentary, and the SF Bay Guardian for local news and arts/entertainment coverage.

I'm conflicted: I do mourn the "death" of print journalism, but never really read the paper after I moved out of my parents' house. My local paper (the San Francisco Chronicle) is on its last legs, but it's been a shell of its former self for years. Mostly just anonymous wire features and home/lifestyle coverage.
 
A model which worked well for some major magazines and newspapers during the last few years: part of the materials (and it's quite a big part) are available online. However, the most interesting are often subject to subscription. It depends on the budget and the marketing strategy if the whole content will be available for free online or only part of it. Still, the Friday and weekend papers were kept as they were. I know very well what subscription means or not, but there is also a great deal of awareness, building image and readers base related to subscription. Raising future readers (and fans) is far more difficult than keeping the ads at this moment. Those who chose to offer online content (and were popular before that of course) kept the advertising income at a reasonable level thus avoiding to I crash. There is no recipe valid for everyone - each media, each particular publication is assessed on its own. i don't know anything about your newspaper, nor do I know how the online content looks or reads, and certainly I can't tell you what causes most difficulties. There are plenty of marketing consultants there for sure. And, my personal opinion, when assessing a company an external view is much better than an internal one - those working in the company can't see it the way others do.
 
to find out what *really* happened from the New Yorker. No better journalism on the planet!

I cancelled my local newspaper subscriptions back in the 80s, after I was involved in a high-profile project that turned political, and I discovered how ridiculously inaccurate the reporting was, and how all that mattered to the papers (and local TV news) was manufacturing controversy in order to sell papers or bring in viewers. I was completely disillusioned and no longer trusted any of the local media to care at all about accuracy or truth. Still don't. But I do watch the weather. We have great local TV weather!

For day-to-day matters, I check out Google's Top Stories, on my iGoogle home page. I figure if something earthshaking happens, it will show up in the top 8 stories. During the presidential campaigns, I checked out Fivethirtyeight and Electoralvote.com.

Our local 24-hour, completely listener-supported classical radio station used to carry the BBC World News headlines several times a day -- received by shortwave radio! -- but they had to stop several years ago, because the BBC made a franchise deal for national distribution in the U.S., and our little station couldn't afford to be part of it, so their longstanding agreement was canceled. Too bad! That's how I first heard about the assassinations of John Lennon and Anwar Sadat, the invasion of Grenada, and 9/11. "And that's the end of the world news"! Too true!
 
And lately I've been reading news on my phone with something called Pocket Express.

For news within my industry, there are particular people/companies I follow on Twitter. Plus I'm subscribed to various email lists.

But sometimes, even with all the information out there, I feel bored, because it's the same stories over and over . . . do we really need another study showing that it's healthy to eat vegetables? [crazy]
 
But mainly because it's my favourite proper paper, and since I've been away from the UK I haven't been able to read it properly. The online edition is pretty good though, and it has a huge set of blogs you can comment on ("Comment Is Free") where there's some interesting discussion.

My editor back at my last job in London said we had to read the Financial Times every day, and the office got copies of all the broadsheets daily, so we got to read real papers in real paper form. I hope that the press will survive like that, but the internet is a crucial news tool these days and publications without a decent website do suffer in comparison to their competitors.
 
It's much cheaper and more comprehensive than the international edition I used to buy years ago.

I look at various Australian sites - The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times. Sometimes the Australian and I look at the Courier Mail to catch up on Queensland news.

They are all linked to 'real' newspapers, though. I also look at the ABC (Australian public broadcaster) a few times a day because they update regularly and have good coverage of political news.
 
And you can actually get all the stories from that day's paper online (along with the excellent blog section as you mentioned). I buy the paper on Saturdays, but rest of the week I read it online.
 
All "one" needs, I should say. If it's not linked from ALD, it ain't worth linking.

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When I want straight news, I go to Reuters. I'm not sure why, perhaps two things come to mind: the clean front page (I mean to my non-pro eyes, the front page has more text than flashy video and etc and is easy to navigate) and I still prefer my news to come from sources that pay their reporters. Say what you want about biased media, I still prefer to rely on professional journalists.

I worry very much about the day when all our news is "written" by some anonymous, unpaid, private individual on the web. I think we will all become so insular, and any news we get from each others countries will be sketchy at best, totally absent at worst.

Speaking as someone who reads Huffington Post BECAUSE it has a liberal bias, I still prefer to read it specifically BECAUSE it has a liberal bias of which I am totally aware and not depend on it for my news. That is fine, in limited application. When I want to hear bias loud and clear because that is also my shared viewpoint (for instance, to read a reaction to some inanity from some blowhard on cable TV), I want to know where to go!

However, relying on HP for all my news would be insane, or at least would induce hysteria.

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I suspect relying on anything written by the extreme right FOR the extreme right would be the same same (I don't know, because I avoid those web sites).

That is why, for all their imperfections, I still prefer my local newspaper and other traditional news sources such as Reuters and even the Washington Post or NYTimes. I will be the very last subscriber to my local paper, I will subscribe until the day it dies and mourn its passing intensely, and our world will change when we no longer have print reporters on the job and get all our news in sound bites on TV or internet blogs with buried credentials.

My editorial.

a.s.
 
I get my news mostly from my local AM talk-radio station. I don't watch any of the local tv news programs except for one, and that's only to get the weather. For national news I watch a particular cable channel. And I get my local newspapers, one from the town where I live now, and one from the town where I grew up. I also subscribe to 3 political magazines. It used to be 4 magazines, until I found in one of them several blatant misrepresentations and one outright lie. I figured if I could spot these fabrications (and I don't consider myself particularly well-informed), then there were probably more, and that magazine did not deserve my money. So I cancelled it. That little incident also made me highly distrustful of news media in general, whatever the perceived bias.
 
if my newspapers disappeared. I enjoy sitting with the paper in the morning with my cup of tea. It's just not the same reading it on-line, IMO. Not only do you have to cope with screen reading, but you don't get the little filler pieces at all. And I have found, with my local paper at any rate, that the articles are shorter on-screen and have less depth. But in defence of on-line, you can get information from anywhere in the world with likely a different slant or viewpoint. I think it's important that we don't always get the news through the same filter. And often I have gone to the 'net to find out more about something.

But I still love my newspaper.
 
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